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... brow , And dart not scornful glances from those eyes , To wound thy lord , thy king , thy governor : It blots thy beauty , as frosts bite the meads ; Confounds thy fame , as whirlwinds shake fair buds ; And in no sense is meet , or ...
... brow , And dart not scornful glances from those eyes , To wound thy lord , thy king , thy governor : It blots thy beauty , as frosts bite the meads ; Confounds thy fame , as whirlwinds shake fair buds ; And in no sense is meet , or ...
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... brow , So soft , so calm , yet eloquent , The smiles that win , the tints that glow , But tell of days in goodness spent , A mind at peace with all below , A heart whose love is innocent . Byron . How bravely thou becom'st thy bed ...
... brow , So soft , so calm , yet eloquent , The smiles that win , the tints that glow , But tell of days in goodness spent , A mind at peace with all below , A heart whose love is innocent . Byron . How bravely thou becom'st thy bed ...
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... brows that parted lovely waves of hair , And took the gazer's eye like some white Grace . Eyes , loving large ! Lips Houri - like , that light A soul to glory with their kiss of fire , And cheeks fresh - misted with the bloom of morn ...
... brows that parted lovely waves of hair , And took the gazer's eye like some white Grace . Eyes , loving large ! Lips Houri - like , that light A soul to glory with their kiss of fire , And cheeks fresh - misted with the bloom of morn ...
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... brow of day . She lives in glory ! -like Night's gems Set round the silver moon ; She lives in glory ! —like the sun Amid the blue of June ! Sillery . Her Dream - like Beauty . The cast of her beauty was so dream - like , and yet so ...
... brow of day . She lives in glory ! -like Night's gems Set round the silver moon ; She lives in glory ! —like the sun Amid the blue of June ! Sillery . Her Dream - like Beauty . The cast of her beauty was so dream - like , and yet so ...
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... brow enthroned , From each majestic motion darted awe , - Devoted awe ! till , cherish'd by her looks Benevolent and meek , confiding love To filial rapture soften'd all the soul . Free in her graceful hand she poised the sword Of ...
... brow enthroned , From each majestic motion darted awe , - Devoted awe ! till , cherish'd by her looks Benevolent and meek , confiding love To filial rapture soften'd all the soul . Free in her graceful hand she poised the sword Of ...
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Page 30 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 216 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 295 - Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 228 - But gladly, as the precept were her own : And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile...
Page 119 - So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember?
Page 88 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint : She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven : Porphyro grew faint : She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Page 172 - HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires: As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires:— Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.
Page 215 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 20 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 72 - Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.