Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumen5Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 |
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... wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace , Or do we grind her still ? The grand debate , The popular harangue , the tart reply , The logic , and the wisdom , and the wit , And the ...
... wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace , Or do we grind her still ? The grand debate , The popular harangue , the tart reply , The logic , and the wisdom , and the wit , And the ...
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... wave their branches dark , To the dwarf moss that clings upon their bark , What beaux and beauties crowd the gaudy groves . And woo and win their vegetable loves . How snowdrops cold , and blue - eyed harebells , blend Their tender ...
... wave their branches dark , To the dwarf moss that clings upon their bark , What beaux and beauties crowd the gaudy groves . And woo and win their vegetable loves . How snowdrops cold , and blue - eyed harebells , blend Their tender ...
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... waves and rent the sky ? E'en now , e'en now , on yonder western shores Weeps pale despair , and writhing anguish roars ; E'en now in Afric's groves , with hideous yell , Fierce slavery stalks , and slips the dogs of hell ; From vale to ...
... waves and rent the sky ? E'en now , e'en now , on yonder western shores Weeps pale despair , and writhing anguish roars ; E'en now in Afric's groves , with hideous yell , Fierce slavery stalks , and slips the dogs of hell ; From vale to ...
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... wave thy emerald banner starred with gold . ' Thus spoke the genius as he stept along , And bade these lawns to peace and truth belong ; Down the steep slopes he led with modest skill The willing pathway and the truant rill , Stretched ...
... wave thy emerald banner starred with gold . ' Thus spoke the genius as he stept along , And bade these lawns to peace and truth belong ; Down the steep slopes he led with modest skill The willing pathway and the truant rill , Stretched ...
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... Waves his broad falchion with uplifted hand , And his vast shadow darkens all the land . 6 Death of Eliza at the Battle of Minden . - From the Loves of the Plants . ' Now stood Eliza on the wood - crowned height , O'er Minden's plain ...
... Waves his broad falchion with uplifted hand , And his vast shadow darkens all the land . 6 Death of Eliza at the Battle of Minden . - From the Loves of the Plants . ' Now stood Eliza on the wood - crowned height , O'er Minden's plain ...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volumen3 Robert Chambers,Robert Carruthers Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 292 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays...
Página 262 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 156 - Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist.
Página 156 - He struck with his o'ertaking wings And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Página 159 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes ; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze...
Página 324 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Página 279 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Página 156 - And I had done a hellish thing. And it would work 'em woe: For all averred. I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Página 16 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, "Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Página 138 - Once again I see These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild : these pastoral farms. Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke Sent up, in silence, from among the trees ! With some uncertain notice, as might seem Of vagrant Dwellers in the houseless woods, Or of some Hermit's cave, where by his fire The Hermit sits alone.