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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... plain , When I came to my task of sorrow and pain . But now the season of rain is nigh , The sun is dim in the thickening sky , And the clouds in sullen darkness rest Where he hides his light at the door of the west . I hear the howl of ...
... plain , When I came to my task of sorrow and pain . But now the season of rain is nigh , The sun is dim in the thickening sky , And the clouds in sullen darkness rest Where he hides his light at the door of the west . I hear the howl of ...
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... plain The wrecks are all thy deed , nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage , save his own , When , for a moment , like a drop of rain , He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan , Without a grave , unknelled , uncoffined , and un ...
... plain The wrecks are all thy deed , nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage , save his own , When , for a moment , like a drop of rain , He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan , Without a grave , unknelled , uncoffined , and un ...
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... And safely landed . Our sailor oft could scantly shift To find a dinner , plain and hearty ; But never changed the coin and gift Of Buonaparte . Ford Ullin's Daughter . CHIEFTAIN to the Highlands bound , 52 32 CAMPBELL .
... And safely landed . Our sailor oft could scantly shift To find a dinner , plain and hearty ; But never changed the coin and gift Of Buonaparte . Ford Ullin's Daughter . CHIEFTAIN to the Highlands bound , 52 32 CAMPBELL .
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... in their seal - skin coat , Fearless , the hungry fishers float , And , from teeming seas , supply The food their niggard plains deny . WILLIAM COWPER . BORN 1731 . DIED 1800 . —0— 60 CONDER . CONDER COWPER The Laplander.
... in their seal - skin coat , Fearless , the hungry fishers float , And , from teeming seas , supply The food their niggard plains deny . WILLIAM COWPER . BORN 1731 . DIED 1800 . —0— 60 CONDER . CONDER COWPER The Laplander.
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... plain My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man , Their tameness is shocking to me . Society , friendship , and love , Divinely bestow'd upon man , — O had I the wings of a dove , How 70 COWPER . Alexander Selkirk.
... plain My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man , Their tameness is shocking to me . Society , friendship , and love , Divinely bestow'd upon man , — O had I the wings of a dove , How 70 COWPER . Alexander Selkirk.
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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...