English OdesC. Kegan Paul, 1881 - 259 páginas |
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... Crown ye God Bacchus with a coronal , And Hymen also crown with wreaths of vine ; And let the Graces dance unto the rest , For they can do it best : The whiles the maidens do their carol sing , To which the woods shall answer , and ...
... Crown ye God Bacchus with a coronal , And Hymen also crown with wreaths of vine ; And let the Graces dance unto the rest , For they can do it best : The whiles the maidens do their carol sing , To which the woods shall answer , and ...
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... crown'd with olive green , came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere , His ready harbinger , With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing ; And , waving wide her myrtle wand , She strikes a universal peace through sea and land ...
... crown'd with olive green , came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere , His ready harbinger , With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing ; And , waving wide her myrtle wand , She strikes a universal peace through sea and land ...
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... to perch , Where when he first does lure The falconer has her sure . -What may not then our Isle presume While victory his crest does plume ? What may not others fear 52 If thus he crowns each year ! As Cæsar MARVELL . 51.
... to perch , Where when he first does lure The falconer has her sure . -What may not then our Isle presume While victory his crest does plume ? What may not others fear 52 If thus he crowns each year ! As Cæsar MARVELL . 51.
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52 If thus he crowns each year ! As Cæsar he , ere long , to Gaul , To Italy an Hannibal , And to all states not free Shall climacteric be . The Pict no shelter now shall find Within his parti - coloured mind , But from their valour ...
52 If thus he crowns each year ! As Cæsar he , ere long , to Gaul , To Italy an Hannibal , And to all states not free Shall climacteric be . The Pict no shelter now shall find Within his parti - coloured mind , But from their valour ...
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... well as heavenly face . With such a peerless majesty she stands , As in that day she took the crown from sacred hands ; Before a train of heroines was seen , In beauty foremost , as in rank the queen . 58 ENGLISH ODES .
... well as heavenly face . With such a peerless majesty she stands , As in that day she took the crown from sacred hands ; Before a train of heroines was seen , In beauty foremost , as in rank the queen . 58 ENGLISH ODES .
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Página 157 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 23 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
Página 144 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Página 135 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Página 191 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Página 189 - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: "Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Página 153 - 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!
Página 140 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Página 60 - Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Página 132 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...