Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 26
... tomb'd afar In some silent cave of spar , Where a glow - worm in an urn Of chrystal for a lamp shall burn . His toll - bell shall the death - watch ring , Humming birds his dirge shall sing , And for banners he shall have Tulips waving ...
... tomb'd afar In some silent cave of spar , Where a glow - worm in an urn Of chrystal for a lamp shall burn . His toll - bell shall the death - watch ring , Humming birds his dirge shall sing , And for banners he shall have Tulips waving ...
Page 139
... tomb with thundering tread , O'erthrew Osiris , Orus , Apis , Isis , And shook the Pyramids with fear and wonder , When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder ? If the tomb's secrets may not be confess'd , The nature of thy private life ...
... tomb with thundering tread , O'erthrew Osiris , Orus , Apis , Isis , And shook the Pyramids with fear and wonder , When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder ? If the tomb's secrets may not be confess'd , The nature of thy private life ...
Page 166
... tomb outworn each rhyme Within the Abbey ; And Gower , an older poet , whom The Borough church enshrines , ( his tomb , Though once restored , has lost its bloom , And got quite shabby , ) Lived in thy time - the first perchance Was ...
... tomb outworn each rhyme Within the Abbey ; And Gower , an older poet , whom The Borough church enshrines , ( his tomb , Though once restored , has lost its bloom , And got quite shabby , ) Lived in thy time - the first perchance Was ...
Page 169
... tombs elsewhere seem to be monuments of oblivion , not remembrance ; they designate spots to be avoided , not visited , un- less by the idle curiosity of strangers : here they seem built up with the heart as well as with the hands ...
... tombs elsewhere seem to be monuments of oblivion , not remembrance ; they designate spots to be avoided , not visited , un- less by the idle curiosity of strangers : here they seem built up with the heart as well as with the hands ...
Page 170
... tomb in which are the ashes of Abelard and Eloisa , united at last in death , but even then denied that rest and repose to which they were strangers in their unhappy and passionate lives . Interred , after various removals , at Soissons ...
... tomb in which are the ashes of Abelard and Eloisa , united at last in death , but even then denied that rest and repose to which they were strangers in their unhappy and passionate lives . Interred , after various removals , at Soissons ...
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