Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Issue 357, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, By R. Taylor and Company, 1805 |
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... sheep - fold ; and , before he heard The tidings of his melancholy loss , For this same purpose he had gathered up A heap of stones , which close to the brook 227.
... sheep - fold ; and , before he heard The tidings of his melancholy loss , For this same purpose he had gathered up A heap of stones , which close to the brook 227.
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... And bear thy memory with me to the grave . " The Shepherd ended here : and Luke stooped down , And , as his Father had requested , laid The first stone of the Sheep - fold . At the sight The Old Man's grief broke from him , to his 232.
... And bear thy memory with me to the grave . " The Shepherd ended here : and Luke stooped down , And , as his Father had requested , laid The first stone of the Sheep - fold . At the sight The Old Man's grief broke from him , to his 232.
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... Sheep - fold . Meantime Luke began To slacken in his duty ; and at length He in the dissolute city gave himself To evil courses : ignominy and shame Fell on him , so that he was driven at last To seek a hiding - place beyond the seas ...
... Sheep - fold . Meantime Luke began To slacken in his duty ; and at length He in the dissolute city gave himself To evil courses : ignominy and shame Fell on him , so that he was driven at last To seek a hiding - place beyond the seas ...
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... Sheep - fold , sometimes was he seen Sitting alone , with that his faithful Dog , Then old , beside him , lying at his feet . The length of full seven years from time to time He at the building of this Sheep - fold wrought , And left ...
... Sheep - fold , sometimes was he seen Sitting alone , with that his faithful Dog , Then old , beside him , lying at his feet . The length of full seven years from time to time He at the building of this Sheep - fold wrought , And left ...
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... Sheep - fold may be seen Beside the boisterous brook of Green - head Gill . APPENDIX . See Preface , page xliii.- " by what 236.
... Sheep - fold may be seen Beside the boisterous brook of Green - head Gill . APPENDIX . See Preface , page xliii.- " by what 236.
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Page 137 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell ; Such thoughts to Lucy I will give While she and I together live Here in this happy dell.
Page 136 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.
Page 137 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; » Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 52 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 73 - But never reached the town. The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide: But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. At daybreak on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept - and, turning homeward, cried, "In heaven we all shall meet"; - When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet.
Page 107 - The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Page 224 - He may return to us. If here he stay, What can be done? Where every one is poor, What can be gained?
Page 142 - Thou know'st that twice a day I have brought thee in this can Fresh water from the brook as clear as ever ran ; And twice in the day when the ground is wet with dew I bring thee draughts of milk, warm milk it is and new.
Page 220 - Receiving from his Father hire of praise ; Though nought was left undone which staff, or voice, Or looks, or threatening gestures, could perform. But soon as Luke, full ten years old, could stand Against the mountain blasts ; and to the heights, Not fearing toil, nor length of weary ways, He with his Father daily went, and they...
Page 74 - And then an open field they crossed : The marks were still the same; They tracked them on, nor ever lost; And to the bridge they came. They followed from the snowy bank Those footmarks, one by one, Into the middle of the plank; And further there were none ! — Yet some maintain that to this day She is a living child ; That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome wild.