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... doors that conscience shuts , For conscious wrong all curious quest rebuts , — Nor yet shall bees uncase their jealous stings , However he may watch their straw - built huts ; - So let him learn the crafts of all small things , Which he ...
... doors that conscience shuts , For conscious wrong all curious quest rebuts , — Nor yet shall bees uncase their jealous stings , However he may watch their straw - built huts ; - So let him learn the crafts of all small things , Which he ...
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... door - so pale - and then He turn'd as nervous as an aspen tree ; The life of man is three - score years and ten , But he was perishing at twenty - three , For people truly said as grief grew stronger , " It could not shorten his poor ...
... door - so pale - and then He turn'd as nervous as an aspen tree ; The life of man is three - score years and ten , But he was perishing at twenty - three , For people truly said as grief grew stronger , " It could not shorten his poor ...
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... door , With soul unbow'd by that pure spirit - level , And frame unequal laws for rich and poor , - Might sit for Hell and represent the Devil ! Such are the solemn sentiments , O Rae , In ODE TO RAE WILSON , ESQ . 47.
... door , With soul unbow'd by that pure spirit - level , And frame unequal laws for rich and poor , - Might sit for Hell and represent the Devil ! Such are the solemn sentiments , O Rae , In ODE TO RAE WILSON , ESQ . 47.
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... door Obsequious to the sinful man of riches- But put the wicked , naked , barelegg'd poor , In parish stocks instead of breeches . The Saints ! -the Bigots that in public spout , Spread phosphorus of zeal on scraps of fustian , And go ...
... door Obsequious to the sinful man of riches- But put the wicked , naked , barelegg'd poor , In parish stocks instead of breeches . The Saints ! -the Bigots that in public spout , Spread phosphorus of zeal on scraps of fustian , And go ...
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... door , And let the solemn , swelling , organ greet , With Voluntaries meet , The willing advent of the rich and poor ! And while to God the loud Hosannas soar , With rich vibrations from the vocal throng- From quiet shades that to the ...
... door , And let the solemn , swelling , organ greet , With Voluntaries meet , The willing advent of the rich and poor ! And while to God the loud Hosannas soar , With rich vibrations from the vocal throng- From quiet shades that to the ...
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Página 179 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures
Página 179 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Página 378 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee!
Página 94 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted I PART II.
Página xxxiii - One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! 'Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair! "Look at her garments Clinging like cerements; Whilst the wave constantly Drips from her clothing; Take her up instantly, Loving, not loathing. 'Touch her not scornfully; Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanly; Not of the stains of her,— All...
Página 194 - THERE is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold grave — under the deep, deep sea, Or in wide desert where no life is found, Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound ; No voice is hushed — no life treads silently, But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free, That never spoke, over the idle ground : But in green ruins, in the desolate walls Of antique palaces, where Man hath been, Though the dun fox, or wild...
Página 95 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Página 183 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Página 343 - BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms : But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms ! Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, " Let others shoot, For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot 1
Página 101 - Oh what a tale they told of fear intense, Of horror and amazement ! What human creature in the dead of night Had coursed like hunted hare that cruel distance ? Had sought the door, the window in his flight, Striving for dear existence ? What shrieking spirit in that bloody room Its mortal frame had violently quitted? — Across the sunbeam, with a sudden gloom, A ghostly shadow flitted.