Fifty Years of English Song: The earlier poets. The Blackwood coterie, and earlier Scottish poets. The poets of young IrelandHenry Fitz Randolph A. D. F. Randolph & Company, 1887 |
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... wind And leaves no trace behind , The womanly pang passed over Kailyal's mind . This is a loathsome sight to human eye , Half - shrinking at herself , the maiden thought ; Will it be so to him ? Oh , surely not ! The immortal Powers ...
... wind And leaves no trace behind , The womanly pang passed over Kailyal's mind . This is a loathsome sight to human eye , Half - shrinking at herself , the maiden thought ; Will it be so to him ? Oh , surely not ! The immortal Powers ...
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... depths of Ocean plunge Its fated crew ? Dwell they in coral bowers With Mermaid loves , teaching their paramours The songs that stir the sea , or make the winds Hush , and the waves be still ? In fields ROBERT SOUTHEY . 19.
... depths of Ocean plunge Its fated crew ? Dwell they in coral bowers With Mermaid loves , teaching their paramours The songs that stir the sea , or make the winds Hush , and the waves be still ? In fields ROBERT SOUTHEY . 19.
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... Winds of Heaven , waft Madoc on his way ! The Waves of Ocean , and the Winds of Heaven , Became his ministers , and Madoc found The World he sought . Who seeks the better land ? Who mounts the vessel for a world of peace ? He who hath ...
... Winds of Heaven , waft Madoc on his way ! The Waves of Ocean , and the Winds of Heaven , Became his ministers , and Madoc found The World he sought . Who seeks the better land ? Who mounts the vessel for a world of peace ? He who hath ...
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... Winds come to me from the fields of sleep , And all the earth is gay ; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity , And with the heart of May Doth every Beast keep holiday ; Thou Child of Joy , Shout round me , let me hear thy shouts ...
... Winds come to me from the fields of sleep , And all the earth is gay ; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity , And with the heart of May Doth every Beast keep holiday ; Thou Child of Joy , Shout round me , let me hear thy shouts ...
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... wind was given : I then revolved The oracle , upon the silent sea ; And , if no worthier led the way , resolved That , of a thousand vessels , mine should be The foremost prow in pressing to the strand , Mine the first blood that tinged ...
... wind was given : I then revolved The oracle , upon the silent sea ; And , if no worthier led the way , resolved That , of a thousand vessels , mine should be The foremost prow in pressing to the strand , Mine the first blood that tinged ...
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angel Annie Artemidora Aspasia beam beauty beneath blood blue BOOK bosom bower breast breath bright brow Casa Wappy Charoba cheek cloud cold curse Dædalus Dalica dare dark DAVID MACBETH MOIR dear death double dream earth EBENEZER ELLIOTT eyes face father fear flowers Gebir Giovanni Malatesta gold grave green hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven Hippias hour hung Irish wife Kailyal Kehama king kiss Landor light lips lonely look Madoc morning mystery the spirit never night Nymph o'er pale plain as whisper poem Queen Rapparees ROBERT SOUTHEY rose round SACK OF BALTIMORE shadow sigh silent sing sleep smile song sorrow soul spake spirit daunted stars sweet Tamar Tanagra tears thee Thermodon thine THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS thou thought thousand lines Thrasymedes thro throne voice wave weary weep wild wind Witiza ye banded
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Página 164 - 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 the
Página 48 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Página 41 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Página 56 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition , sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 47 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 46 - Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life...
Página 44 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Página 167 - Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, — Over the brink of it, Picture it — think of it, Dissolute man ! Lave in it, drink of it. Then, if you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair...
Página 40 - 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.
Página 45 - mid work of his own hand he lies. Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses. With light upon him from his father's eyes!