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... Traveller sees its distant tower , Yet ere his steps attain the sacred seat , Must toil for many a league and many an hour . Elate the Abbot sees the pile and knows Stateliest of convents now , his new Moscera rose . II . Long were the ...
... Traveller sees its distant tower , Yet ere his steps attain the sacred seat , Must toil for many a league and many an hour . Elate the Abbot sees the pile and knows Stateliest of convents now , his new Moscera rose . II . Long were the ...
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... traveller Ely's tower descried , Which when thou seest far o'er the fenny plain , Dear George , I counsel thee to turn that way , Its ancient beauties sure will well reward delay . XXII . And we should never then have heard I 8.
... traveller Ely's tower descried , Which when thou seest far o'er the fenny plain , Dear George , I counsel thee to turn that way , Its ancient beauties sure will well reward delay . XXII . And we should never then have heard I 8.
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... traveller on his way ; And now he knows the man so much abhorr'd , — His holier thoughts are gone , he bares the murderous swo XLIII . " The house of Valdespesa gives the blow ! " Go , and our vengeance to our kinsman tell ! " - Despair ...
... traveller on his way ; And now he knows the man so much abhorr'd , — His holier thoughts are gone , he bares the murderous swo XLIII . " The house of Valdespesa gives the blow ! " Go , and our vengeance to our kinsman tell ! " - Despair ...
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... a bottle quick went round , And many a merry tale was told : At length the subject graver grown , And taking quite a different tone , On ancient metaphysics roll'd . III . A learned traveller took the lead , A '46 The Gallinipper.
... a bottle quick went round , And many a merry tale was told : At length the subject graver grown , And taking quite a different tone , On ancient metaphysics roll'd . III . A learned traveller took the lead , A '46 The Gallinipper.
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Robert Southey. III . A learned traveller took the lead , A Doctor who had fill'd his head With maxims most heroic ; He swore that what the world call'd pain Was but a phantom of the brain , And never yet was felt by Stoic . IV . And ...
Robert Southey. III . A learned traveller took the lead , A Doctor who had fill'd his head With maxims most heroic ; He swore that what the world call'd pain Was but a phantom of the brain , And never yet was felt by Stoic . IV . And ...
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ARAUCANS beauty Beelzebub behold Beneath bosom bower breast bright brow busy busy Bee CHARLES LLOYD cheek child clouds cold Cossack cried Crocodile dark dear death delight dream dwell E'en ECLOGUE fair feel fire flowers gale gentle GEORGE GOODWIN grave green billows Gualberto Halloo hast hath Hatto hear heard heart Heaven hill holy hour house of pride Iceburgs ISAAC King laughing Lewti light limbs lov'd maid MARGARET mark'd mind morn Moscera Muse Musquito Nature's never night o'er once pale poor praise pride quoth ROBERT SOUTHEY rose round scene Siberia sigh sleep smile song SONNET sorrow soul spirit stood stream sweet tale tears tell tempest thee thine Thou art thou busy busy thou wert thought thro TRAVELLER twas Twill vale vex'd viperous Race wandering ween whilst wild wind wings winter WOMAN youth
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Page 28 - twas a famous victory! "My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 243 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls helter-skelter they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the Bishop they go.
Page 129 - On springy heath, along the hill-top edge, Wander in gladness, and wind down, perchance, To that still roaring dell, of which I told ; The roaring dell, o'erwooded, narrow, deep, And only speckled by the midday sun; Where its slim trunk the ash from rock to rock Flings arching like a bridge...
Page 132 - With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain And strange calamity! Ah! slowly sink Behind the western ridge, thou glorious sun! Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb, Ye purple heath-flowers! richlier burn, ye clouds! Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves! And kindle, thou blue ocean! So my Friend Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood, Silent with swimming sense...
Page 27 - Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Page 133 - Was richly tinged, and a deep radiance lay Full on the ancient ivy, which usurps Those fronting elms, and now, with blackest mass Makes their dark branches gleam a lighter hue Through the late twilight: and though now the bat Wheels silent by, and not a swallow twitters, Yet still the solitary humble bee Sings in the bean-flower! Henceforth I shall know That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure...
Page 26 - IT wAS a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done. And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round. Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found. That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And...
Page 29 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ?" Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
Page 27 - twas all about,' Young Peterkin, he cries; And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting eyes; 'Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.
Page 241 - So then to his palace returned he, And he sate down to supper merrily, And he slept that night like an innocent man, But bishop Hatto never slept again. In the morning as he entered the hall, Where his picture hung against the wall, A sweat like death all over him came, For the rats had eaten it out of the frame. As he look'd, there came a man from his farm. He had a countenance white with alarm, My lord, I opened your granaries this morn, And the rats had eaten all your corn.