PoemsG. Routledge and Sons, 1866 - 719 páginas |
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... thou wast struggling in the pangs of death ! Could tears retard the tyrant in his course ; Could sighs avert his dart's relentless force , Could youth and virtue claim a short delay , Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey ; Thou ...
... thou wast struggling in the pangs of death ! Could tears retard the tyrant in his course ; Could sighs avert his dart's relentless force , Could youth and virtue claim a short delay , Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey ; Thou ...
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... thou shalt not know : With joy I court a certain doom , Rather than spread its guilty glow . I will not ease my ... thou be free , No matron shall thy shame reprove ; Though cureless pangs may prey on me , No martyr shalt thou be to love ...
... thou shalt not know : With joy I court a certain doom , Rather than spread its guilty glow . I will not ease my ... thou be free , No matron shall thy shame reprove ; Though cureless pangs may prey on me , No martyr shalt thou be to love ...
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... thou , my generous youth , whose tender years Are near my own , whose worth my heart reveres , Henceforth affection sweetly thus begun , Shall join our bosoms and our souls in one ; Without thy aid , no glory shall be mine ; Without thy ...
... thou , my generous youth , whose tender years Are near my own , whose worth my heart reveres , Henceforth affection sweetly thus begun , Shall join our bosoms and our souls in one ; Without thy aid , no glory shall be mine ; Without thy ...
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... Thou drooping elm ! beneath whose boughs I lay , And frequent mused the twilight hours away ; Where , as they once were wont , my limbs recline , But ah ! without the thoughts which then were mine How do thy branches , moaning to the ...
... Thou drooping elm ! beneath whose boughs I lay , And frequent mused the twilight hours away ; Where , as they once were wont , my limbs recline , But ah ! without the thoughts which then were mine How do thy branches , moaning to the ...
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... thou art strong in verse , in mercy spare ! A fourth , alas ! were more than we could bear . But if , in spite of all the world can say , Thou still wilt verseward plod thy weary way ; As the " Odyssey " is so closely connected with the ...
... thou art strong in verse , in mercy spare ! A fourth , alas ! were more than we could bear . But if , in spite of all the world can say , Thou still wilt verseward plod thy weary way ; As the " Odyssey " is so closely connected with the ...
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Página 556 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb. Or whispering with white lips — "The foe! They come! they come ! " And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering
Página 534 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 556 - No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet— But hark!— that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than> before! Arm! Arm! it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar!
Página 302 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 674 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave— Think ye he meant them for a slave?
Página 350 - The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Página 354 - With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they ? We were all...
Página 558 - There have been tears and breaking hearts for thee, And mine were nothing, had I such to give ; But when I stood beneath the fresh green tree, Which living waves where thou didst cease to live, And saw around me the wide field revive With fruits and fertile promise, and the Spring Come forth her work of gladness to contrive, With all her reckless birds upon the wing, I turn'd from all she brought to those she could not bring.
Página 350 - Less wretched now, and one day free ; He, too, who yet had held untired A spirit natural or inspired — He, too, was struck, and day by day, Was wither'd on the stalk away.
Página 549 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth...