Holly berries: or, Double acrostics, from the poets, ed. by A.P.A.A. P. A. Hatchards, 1869 - 213 páginas |
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Página 55 - Twas thus Granada's fountain by, spoke 's daughter." 2. " His unkempt hair all matted hung His shaggy shoulders round ; His eager eye all fiery glow'd; His face with fury frown'd." 3. " Behold her single in the field; Yon solitary Highland lass. Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain.
Página 138 - I cannot eat, my mother, My tongue is parched and bound, And my head, somehow or other, Is swimming round and round." 5. " While I am lying on the grass Thy loud note smites my ear! From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off and near !
Página 7 - ' I love, and hate her: for she's fair and royal, And that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite Than lady, ladies, woman ; from every one The best she hath, and she, of all compounded. Outsells them all." 6. " I would I were invisible, to catch the strong fellow by the leg.
Página 168 - Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler, sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human. One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it; And just as lamely can ye mark How far, perhaps, they rue it.
Página 74 - But the jingling of the helps The hurt that honour feels." 2. " And the splashing water drenches Their dirty brats and wenches ; And they crawl from bales and benches In a hundred thousand stenches." 3. " Upon my tongue continual slanders ride : The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
Página 22 - In truth he was a noble steed; A Tartar of the breed; Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs." 8. " And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees.
Página 97 - would choose, were I to choose anew." 1. " Earth and her trembling isles in ocean's bed Are shook, and Nature rocks beneath his tread." 2. " Oh, when she is angry, she is keen and shrew'd : She was a vixen when she went to school. And though she be but little, she is fierce.
Página 43 - Thro' Summer's heat and Winter's snow : The eagle he was lord above, And was lord below." 2. " Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy. But not expressed in fancy." 3. '' He's winding up the watch of his wit, By and bye it will strike." 4. " I give thee all—I can no more-— Though poor the offering be.
Página 196 - rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wails a portion with judicious care : And ' let us worship God!' he says with solemn air.
Página 120 - The hunter Provok'd the danger of the Elephant's rage." 6. " His nature is too noble for the world ; He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder." 7. " He, that of greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister; So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes.