Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1840 - English poetry |
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... tears do steep , To think how she through guileful handelling , Though true as touch , though daughter of a king , Though fair as ever living wight was fair , Though nor in word nor deed ill meriting , Is from her knight divorced in ...
... tears do steep , To think how she through guileful handelling , Though true as touch , though daughter of a king , Though fair as ever living wight was fair , Though nor in word nor deed ill meriting , Is from her knight divorced in ...
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... tears did shed for pure affection . " The lion , lord of every beast in field , " Quoth she , " his princely puissance doth abate , And mighty proud to humble weak does yield , Forgetful of the hungry rage which late Him prick'd , in ...
... tears did shed for pure affection . " The lion , lord of every beast in field , " Quoth she , " his princely puissance doth abate , And mighty proud to humble weak does yield , Forgetful of the hungry rage which late Him prick'd , in ...
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... tears . What cradle wert thou rock'd in ? In hope devoid of fears . What lull'd thee , then , asleep ? Sweet sleep , which likes me best . Tell me where is thy dwelling - place ? In gentle hearts I rest . What thing doth please thee ...
... tears . What cradle wert thou rock'd in ? In hope devoid of fears . What lull'd thee , then , asleep ? Sweet sleep , which likes me best . Tell me where is thy dwelling - place ? In gentle hearts I rest . What thing doth please thee ...
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... tears , With hideous clamours ever struck her ears , Whetting the blazing sword that in her hand she bears . The winged lightning is her Mercury , And round about her mighty thunders sound : Impatient of himself lies pining by Pale ...
... tears , With hideous clamours ever struck her ears , Whetting the blazing sword that in her hand she bears . The winged lightning is her Mercury , And round about her mighty thunders sound : Impatient of himself lies pining by Pale ...
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... tear , And then thou art a piece expressing fully The Carthage queen , when from a cold sea - rock , Full with her sorrow , she tied fast her eyes To the fair Trojan ships , and having lost them , Just as thine eyes do , down stole a tear ...
... tear , And then thou art a piece expressing fully The Carthage queen , when from a cold sea - rock , Full with her sorrow , she tied fast her eyes To the fair Trojan ships , and having lost them , Just as thine eyes do , down stole a tear ...
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Page 357 - customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. " The next, with dirges due in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne ; Approach and read — for thou canst read — the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 49 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 102 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 180 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 242 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 97 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 32 - Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 95 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek...
Page 133 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 163 - What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine ; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach ; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.