Youth: Or Scenes from the Past; and Other PoemsC. C. Little and J. Brown, 1841 - 144 páginas |
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... sport , Flash light , where reason pours a feebler ray . Nor vain such tales of wonder , since they bring , Early and strongly , to the opening mind , Views of futurity , and help unbind Those clogs of earthly sense , that heavy cling ...
... sport , Flash light , where reason pours a feebler ray . Nor vain such tales of wonder , since they bring , Early and strongly , to the opening mind , Views of futurity , and help unbind Those clogs of earthly sense , that heavy cling ...
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... sport along the wave . And see yon tender stripling , who hath run In haste , yet pauses ere the feat be done : Lingering yet longing , fearful and yet brave , He plunges headlong to the Nereid cave , Emerging soon , with spoils from ...
... sport along the wave . And see yon tender stripling , who hath run In haste , yet pauses ere the feat be done : Lingering yet longing , fearful and yet brave , He plunges headlong to the Nereid cave , Emerging soon , with spoils from ...
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... sport with danger joined , What charm more potent for youth's fearless mind ! II . In little bosoms such achievements strike A kindred spark ; they burn to do the like . COWPER . Hark to the shout , the challenge , the reply ! The goal ...
... sport with danger joined , What charm more potent for youth's fearless mind ! II . In little bosoms such achievements strike A kindred spark ; they burn to do the like . COWPER . Hark to the shout , the challenge , the reply ! The goal ...
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... sport would be as tedious as to work . SHAKSPEARE . Enough of boisterous sports , of joys that spring To hasty birth ... sport to toil , rejoicing in each change , Sport free from care , and study void of pain . THE LANGUAGES . No ...
... sport would be as tedious as to work . SHAKSPEARE . Enough of boisterous sports , of joys that spring To hasty birth ... sport to toil , rejoicing in each change , Sport free from care , and study void of pain . THE LANGUAGES . No ...
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... sport forgot ; Kite , marble , football , each old game , Wherein to win was then held fame , Here flourish still ; and half we deem Ourselves unchanged , in this blest dream . But no , ' tis past ; the fates allow - No second youth ...
... sport forgot ; Kite , marble , football , each old game , Wherein to win was then held fame , Here flourish still ; and half we deem Ourselves unchanged , in this blest dream . But no , ' tis past ; the fates allow - No second youth ...
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Términos y frases comunes
afar AKENSIDE alike ambition claims beauty beauty's bosoms bower breast breathe bright brow BYRON charms Conscience daring dark deeds deem deep divine dream dwell e'en fair false friends fame fancy farewell fear fearless feelings fire flame forms fraught FREE INQUIRY friendship's frown genius glory glow grace grief haply hath heart heaven hence hill hopes hour kindred life's light light sail living love's man's marble live mind mortal mountain Muse native nature ne'er o'er ocean pain passion plain pleasure pleasure's poetic pride proud pure rapture rill roused scenes scorn senseless things shade SHAKSPEARE shine silent poets smile soar soon sorrows soul sparkling sport spring strain stream strife sublime sundered hearts sway swelling tears thee thine thou thought throne toil true truth Twas virtue virtue's wandering warm waves wide wild WILLIAM PLUMER winds wood warblers WORDSWORTH wrought youth
Pasajes populares
Página 77 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 54 - While many of his tribe slumber'd around ; And they were canopied by the blue sky. So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in heaven.
Página 61 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Página 34 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Página 90 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Página 20 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 98 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Página 91 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Página 96 - From Heaven my strains begin: from Heaven descends The flame of genius to the human breast, And love and beauty, and poetic joy And inspiration. Ere the radiant sun Sprang from the east, or 'mid the vault of night The moon suspended her serener lamp; Ere mountains, woods, or streams...
Página 117 - I've been wand'ring away — To see thus around me my youth's early friends, As smiling and kind as in that happy day ? Though haply o'er some of your brows, as o'er mine, The snow-fall of time may be stealing — what then ? Like Alps in the sunset, thus lighted by wine...