English Poems: From the College Entrance Requirements in EnglishVida Dutton Scudder Scott, Foresman, 1919 - 561 páginas |
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... pride conceal'd , To maids alone and children are reveal'd . What tho ' no credit doubting Wits may give ? 40 The fair and innocent shall still believe . Know , then , unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly , The light militia of the lower ...
... pride conceal'd , To maids alone and children are reveal'd . What tho ' no credit doubting Wits may give ? 40 The fair and innocent shall still believe . Know , then , unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly , The light militia of the lower ...
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... pride , When offers are disdain'd , and love deny'd ; Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain , While peers , and dukes , and all their sweeping train , 85 And garters , stars , and coronets appear , And in soft sounds , ' Your Grace ...
... pride , When offers are disdain'd , and love deny'd ; Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain , While peers , and dukes , and all their sweeping train , 85 And garters , stars , and coronets appear , And in soft sounds , ' Your Grace ...
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... Pride . Unnumber'd treasures ope at once , and here 130 The various off'rings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with curious toil , And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil . This casket India's glowing gems ...
... Pride . Unnumber'd treasures ope at once , and here 130 The various off'rings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with curious toil , And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil . This casket India's glowing gems ...
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... pride , Might hide her faults , if belles had faults to hide ; If to her share some female errors fall , Look on her face , and you'll forget ' em all . This nymph , to the destruction of mankind , 20 Nourish'd two locks , which ...
... pride , Might hide her faults , if belles had faults to hide ; If to her share some female errors fall , Look on her face , and you'll forget ' em all . This nymph , to the destruction of mankind , 20 Nourish'd two locks , which ...
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... pride surveys his rising tow'rs , There stands a structure of majestic frame , Which from the neighb'ring Hampton takes its name . 5 Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants , and of nymphs at home ; Here thou ...
... pride surveys his rising tow'rs , There stands a structure of majestic frame , Which from the neighb'ring Hampton takes its name . 5 Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants , and of nymphs at home ; Here thou ...
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Alba Longa ancient arms Arnold bard battle beauty Belinda beneath blest breast breath bright Byron canto charms Childe Harold Christabel Coleridge Coleridge's dear death Deserted Village earth eighteenth century Elegy England English eyes fair fame fate father feel fight Geraldine glory Goldsmith Gray Gray's hair hand hath head heart heaven hills Horatius Italy King Kubla Khan lady Lake Regillus land Lars Porsena Latin Lock look Lord Macaulay maid Matthew Arnold mind mountains never night Note nymph o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once Oxus pain passage poem poet poetic poetry Pope pride proud Roland de Vaux Roman Rome round Rustum Shelley Sir Leoline smile Sohrab soul spake spirit Stanza story sweet Sylphs tears Thalestris thee thine things thou thought Umbriel verse Vicar of Wakefield wild wind words Wordsworth wrote youth
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Página 184 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there...
Página 76 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 76 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Página 75 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Página 183 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Página 121 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven, As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, • Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 32 - Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face ; Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise, And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes. The busy Sylphs surround their darling Care ; These set the Head, and those divide the Hair, Some fold the Sleeve, whilst others plait the Gown ; And BETTY'S prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II NOT with more Glories, in th...
Página 228 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago...
Página 37 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
Página 37 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...