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... wonder why You cannot run ; You try to talk - how hard you try ! - You're only One . Ere long you won't be such a dunce : You'll eat your bun , And fly your kite , like folk who once Were only One . You'll rhyme and woo , and fight and ...
... wonder why You cannot run ; You try to talk - how hard you try ! - You're only One . Ere long you won't be such a dunce : You'll eat your bun , And fly your kite , like folk who once Were only One . You'll rhyme and woo , and fight and ...
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... wonder now you would have stayed , But hush your cries , my little maid , 1 , The journey's over . For , utter stranger as you are , There yet are many hearts ajar For your arriving , And trusty friends and lovers true Are waiting ...
... wonder now you would have stayed , But hush your cries , my little maid , 1 , The journey's over . For , utter stranger as you are , There yet are many hearts ajar For your arriving , And trusty friends and lovers true Are waiting ...
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... LJA Hands all wants and looks all wonder At all things the heavens under , Tiny scorns of smiled reprovings . That have more of love than lovings , ... Alice to ampo¶ 7 11 Mischiefs done with such a 19 Poems of Youth and Age.
... LJA Hands all wants and looks all wonder At all things the heavens under , Tiny scorns of smiled reprovings . That have more of love than lovings , ... Alice to ampo¶ 7 11 Mischiefs done with such a 19 Poems of Youth and Age.
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Songs for Fragoletta II " Blue eyes , looking up at me , I wonder what you really see , Lying in your cradle there , - Fragrant as a branch of myrrh ? Helpless little hands and feet , O so helpless ! O so sweet ! Tiny tongue that cannot ...
Songs for Fragoletta II " Blue eyes , looking up at me , I wonder what you really see , Lying in your cradle there , - Fragrant as a branch of myrrh ? Helpless little hands and feet , O so helpless ! O so sweet ! Tiny tongue that cannot ...
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... wonder that she lives at all- Tiny alabaster girl , Hardly bigger than a pearl ; That is why we take such care , 1 . Lest some one run away with her . Richard Le Gallienne [ 1866– CHOOSING A NAME I HAVE got a new - born sister : I was ...
... wonder that she lives at all- Tiny alabaster girl , Hardly bigger than a pearl ; That is why we take such care , 1 . Lest some one run away with her . Richard Le Gallienne [ 1866– CHOOSING A NAME I HAVE got a new - born sister : I was ...
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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
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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...