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... thousands cease to breathe ; Death rides upon the sulphury Siroc , " 33 Red Battle stamps his foot , and nations feel the shock . XXXIX . Lo ! where the Giant on the mountain stands , His blood - red tresses deep'ning in the sun , With ...
... thousands cease to breathe ; Death rides upon the sulphury Siroc , " 33 Red Battle stamps his foot , and nations feel the shock . XXXIX . Lo ! where the Giant on the mountain stands , His blood - red tresses deep'ning in the sun , With ...
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... thousands fall to deck some single name . In sooth ' twere sad to thwart their noble aim Who strike , blest hirelings ! for their country's good , And die , that living might have proved her shame ; Perish'd , perchance , in some ...
... thousands fall to deck some single name . In sooth ' twere sad to thwart their noble aim Who strike , blest hirelings ! for their country's good , And die , that living might have proved her shame ; Perish'd , perchance , in some ...
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... thousand altars rise , for ever blazing bright . " LXVII . From morn till night , from night till startled Morn Peeps blushing on the revel's laughing crew , The song is heard , the rosy garland worn ; Devices quaint , and frolics ever ...
... thousand altars rise , for ever blazing bright . " LXVII . From morn till night , from night till startled Morn Peeps blushing on the revel's laughing crew , The song is heard , the rosy garland worn ; Devices quaint , and frolics ever ...
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... Thousands on thousands piled are seated round ; Long ere the first loud trumpet's note is heard , Ne vacant space for lated wight is found : Here dons , grandees , but chiefly dames abound , Skill'd in the ogle of a roguish eye , Yet ...
... Thousands on thousands piled are seated round ; Long ere the first loud trumpet's note is heard , Ne vacant space for lated wight is found : Here dons , grandees , but chiefly dames abound , Skill'd in the ogle of a roguish eye , Yet ...
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... thousand homilies . Or burst the vanish'd Hero's lofty mound ; Far on the solitary shore he sleeps : * He fell , and falling nations mourn'd around ; But now not one of saddening thousands weeps , Nor wirike worshipper his vigil keeps ...
... thousand homilies . Or burst the vanish'd Hero's lofty mound ; Far on the solitary shore he sleeps : * He fell , and falling nations mourn'd around ; But now not one of saddening thousands weeps , Nor wirike worshipper his vigil keeps ...
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Page 78 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 176 - Dark-heaving, boundless, endless and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 76 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Page 175 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 97 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 85 - The castled crag of Drachenfels("> Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me ! 2.
Page 99 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 62 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth...
Page 98 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep : — All heaven and earth are still : — From the high host Of stars, to the lull'd lake and mountain-coast, All is concenter'd in a life intense, Where not a beam, nor air, nor leaf is lost, But hath a part of being, and a sense Of that which is of all Creator and defence, xc.