Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. BowmanG. Routledge, 1856 - 292 páginas |
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... pleasures with youth pass away , And yet you lament not the days that are gone : Now tell me the reason , I pray ? " " In the days of my youth , " Father William replied , " I remember'd that youth could not last ; I thought of the ...
... pleasures with youth pass away , And yet you lament not the days that are gone : Now tell me the reason , I pray ? " " In the days of my youth , " Father William replied , " I remember'd that youth could not last ; I thought of the ...
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... pleasures which Mirth can afford , — The revel the laugh , and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board : But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer , And none but the worm is a reveller here . LINES WRITTEN IN A CHURCHYARD 13 ...
... pleasures which Mirth can afford , — The revel the laugh , and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board : But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer , And none but the worm is a reveller here . LINES WRITTEN IN A CHURCHYARD 13 ...
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... pleasure , and their task all play , All spring their age , and sunshine all their day . Not so the child of sorrow , wretched man : His course with toil concludes , with pain began , That his high destiny he might discern , And in ...
... pleasure , and their task all play , All spring their age , and sunshine all their day . Not so the child of sorrow , wretched man : His course with toil concludes , with pain began , That his high destiny he might discern , And in ...
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... pleasure . The budding twigs spread out their fan , To catch the breezy air ; And I must think , do all I can , That there was pleasure there . If this belief from Heaven be sent , If such be Nature's holy plan , Have I not reason to ...
... pleasure . The budding twigs spread out their fan , To catch the breezy air ; And I must think , do all I can , That there was pleasure there . If this belief from Heaven be sent , If such be Nature's holy plan , Have I not reason to ...
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... pleasures of thy peaceful home ; While duty bids us all thy griefs assuage , And smoothe the pillow of thy sinking age . HENRY KIRKE WHITE . THE FROZEN SHOWER . WRITTEN AT COPENHAGEN . ERE yet To my Mother Henry Kirke White.
... pleasures of thy peaceful home ; While duty bids us all thy griefs assuage , And smoothe the pillow of thy sinking age . HENRY KIRKE WHITE . THE FROZEN SHOWER . WRITTEN AT COPENHAGEN . ERE yet To my Mother Henry Kirke White.
Términos y frases comunes
battle BATTLE OF BLENHEIM BATTLE OF WATERLOO beauty beneath birds blast bower breast breath bright brow churchyard clouds crested lark dark dead death deep doth dread earth eternal ETON COLLEGE fair fear flowers gale gleam gloom glory glow grave green GRONGAR HILL hath hear heard heart heaven HERBERT KNOWLES hill hour hues hush'd LAKE REGILLUS leaves light Lochiel lonely midnight moon morn mountains mourn Nature's night o'er painted banks pale plain pride proud purple rise rise tis rocks rolling round sculptured mountains seem'd shade shed shine sight sings skies sleep smile snow soft solemn song sorrow soul sound spirit spread spring star stock dove storm stream sweet tawny eagle tears tempest thee thine thou thunder tree trembling twas vale vernal voice wave weep wild winds wings wood youth
Pasajes populares
Página 20 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Página 37 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Página 11 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 54 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?
Página 77 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 15 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee...
Página 196 - 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...
Página 74 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day: The...
Página 192 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 45 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee In a flood of day...