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... hath given me to cherish , This living , moving wonder which is mine . Mine only ? Leave it with me or I perish , Dear Lord of love divine . Dear Lord , ' tis wonderful beyond all wonder , This tender miracle vouchsafed to me , One with ...
... hath given me to cherish , This living , moving wonder which is mine . Mine only ? Leave it with me or I perish , Dear Lord of love divine . Dear Lord , ' tis wonderful beyond all wonder , This tender miracle vouchsafed to me , One with ...
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65 Proverbs HE that would thrive Must rise at five ; He that hath thriven May lie till seven ; 1 And he that by the plough would thrive , I Himself must either hold or drive . A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of ...
65 Proverbs HE that would thrive Must rise at five ; He that hath thriven May lie till seven ; 1 And he that by the plough would thrive , I Himself must either hold or drive . A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of ...
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... hath been , A blameless babe thou art now made . Sweet baby , then forbear to weep ; Be still , my babe ; sweet baby , sleep . While thus thy lullaby I sing , For thee great blessings ripening be ; Thine Eldest Brother is a king , And hath ...
... hath been , A blameless babe thou art now made . Sweet baby , then forbear to weep ; Be still , my babe ; sweet baby , sleep . While thus thy lullaby I sing , For thee great blessings ripening be ; Thine Eldest Brother is a king , And hath ...
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... hath seen her Smile therefor , Our Ladye without Sinne . Now soone from Sleep A Starre shall leap , And soone arrive both King and Hinde : Amen , Amen : But O , the Place co'd I but finde ! The Ox hath hushed his voyce and bent Trewe ...
... hath seen her Smile therefor , Our Ladye without Sinne . Now soone from Sleep A Starre shall leap , And soone arrive both King and Hinde : Amen , Amen : But O , the Place co'd I but finde ! The Ox hath hushed his voyce and bent Trewe ...
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... hath spoken In a little wondrous story , Baby dear . There have come three kings to greet Thee , Baby dear , Crowned with gold , and clad in purple ,. They draw near . They have brought rare silks to bind Thee , At Thy feet , behold ...
... hath spoken In a little wondrous story , Baby dear . There have come three kings to greet Thee , Baby dear , Crowned with gold , and clad in purple ,. They draw near . They have brought rare silks to bind Thee , At Thy feet , behold ...
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Common terms and phrases
Alfred Tennyson Algernon Charles Swinburne angels babe Baby Bell Beata mea Domina beauty birds blow blue Blynken breast breath bright brown brown thrush cheeks child Christina Georgina Rossetti cried dark dear door doth dream earth Eileen Aroon eyes face fair fairy fear feet flowers girl golden grace green grow hair hand happy hath hear heart heaven Jane Taylor kiss lady laugh light lips live look Love's lullaby maid merry moon morning mother ne'er never night o'er pretty Raggedy rain Robert Herrick Robert Louis Stevenson Rockaby rose round shine sigh sing sleep smile soft song soul stars tears tell thee There's thine things Thomas Campion thou thought tree voice weary weep William William Blake William Brighty Rands William Wordsworth wind wings wonder youth
Popular passages
Page 1558 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 1529 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While .thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 259 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace : From my heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Page 1546 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 629 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Page 371 - Behold the child among his new-born blisses, A six years' darling of a pigmy size ! See, where '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 ! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral ; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song : Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues...
Page 773 - Twere better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar." One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near ; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung ! " She is won ! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur ; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 628 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 1528 - Ode to a Nightingale 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...
Page 327 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may...