An educational selection of poetry: with notes, chiefly historical, compiled by a member of the Historic society of Lancashire and Cheshire [T.W.M.].T W M 1876 |
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... care ; His presence shall my wants supply , And guard me with a watchful eye : My noon - day walks he shall attend , And all my midnight hours defend . When in the sultry glebe I faint , Or on 8 ADDISON . AIKEN BAILLIE Paraphrase on Psalm.
... care ; His presence shall my wants supply , And guard me with a watchful eye : My noon - day walks he shall attend , And all my midnight hours defend . When in the sultry glebe I faint , Or on 8 ADDISON . AIKEN BAILLIE Paraphrase on Psalm.
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... hour when happy faces Smile around the taper's light ; - Who will fill our vacant places ? Who will sing our songs to - night ? Through the mist that floats above us , Faintly sounds the vesper bell , Like a voice from those who love us ...
... hour when happy faces Smile around the taper's light ; - Who will fill our vacant places ? Who will sing our songs to - night ? Through the mist that floats above us , Faintly sounds the vesper bell , Like a voice from those who love us ...
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... hours , and wearied not . Within the woods , Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast A shade , gay ... hour Into a fuller beauty ; but my friend , The thoughtful ancient , standing by my side , Gazed BRYANT . 25 BRYANT ...
... hours , and wearied not . Within the woods , Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast A shade , gay ... hour Into a fuller beauty ; but my friend , The thoughtful ancient , standing by my side , Gazed BRYANT . 25 BRYANT ...
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... hours of light are long Betwixt the morn and eve ; with swifter lapse They glide in manhood , and in age they fly ; Till days and seasons flit before the mind As flit the snow - flakes in a winter storm , Seen rather than distinguished ...
... hours of light are long Betwixt the morn and eve ; with swifter lapse They glide in manhood , and in age they fly ; Till days and seasons flit before the mind As flit the snow - flakes in a winter storm , Seen rather than distinguished ...
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... hour for a mother's heart , When the pitiless ruffians tore us apart ; When I clasped their knees , and wept , and prayed , And struggled , and shrieked to heaven for aid , And clung to my sons with desperate strength , Till the ...
... hour for a mother's heart , When the pitiless ruffians tore us apart ; When I clasped their knees , and wept , and prayed , And struggled , and shrieked to heaven for aid , And clung to my sons with desperate strength , Till the ...
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Página 209 - ... Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes; and thus far hear me, Cromwell, And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say I taught thee Say Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in A sure and safe one, though thy master...
Página 44 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Página 192 - The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy.
Página 83 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of Heraldry, the pomp of Power, And all that Beauty, all that Wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 133 - THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.
Página 77 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down...
Página 41 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet...
Página 95 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form.
Página 78 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 166 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...