Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volumen 2Jones & Company, 1831 |
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... beauty never could be dead . Yet the dark lash of her expressive eye , Bent lowly down upon the languid- · • WRITTEN AT THE GRAVE OF A FRIEND . FAST from the West the fading day - streaks fly , And ebon Night assumes her solemn sway ...
... beauty never could be dead . Yet the dark lash of her expressive eye , Bent lowly down upon the languid- · • WRITTEN AT THE GRAVE OF A FRIEND . FAST from the West the fading day - streaks fly , And ebon Night assumes her solemn sway ...
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... beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth , Suffer herself to be desired , And not blush so to be admired . Then die , that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share , That ...
... beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth , Suffer herself to be desired , And not blush so to be admired . Then die , that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share , That ...
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... beauty sleep together . CONSUMPTION . Come , let us speed our way ! Join our hands , and spread our tether ! I will furnish food for thee , Thou shalt smooth the way for me ; And the grass shall wave O'er many a grave , Where youth and ...
... beauty sleep together . CONSUMPTION . Come , let us speed our way ! Join our hands , and spread our tether ! I will furnish food for thee , Thou shalt smooth the way for me ; And the grass shall wave O'er many a grave , Where youth and ...
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... Beauty's power ? It flourishes and dies ; Will the cold earth its silence break , To tell how soft how smooth a cheek Beneath its surface lies ? Mute , mute is all O'er Beauty's fall ; [ pail . Her praise resounds no more when mantled ...
... Beauty's power ? It flourishes and dies ; Will the cold earth its silence break , To tell how soft how smooth a cheek Beneath its surface lies ? Mute , mute is all O'er Beauty's fall ; [ pail . Her praise resounds no more when mantled ...
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... beauty's alarms Behind yon hills where Lugar flows Behold the hour , the boat arrive Beyond thee , dearie , beyond thee , dearie Blithe , blithe and merry was she Blithe hae I been on yon hill • . Bonnie lassie , will ye go Bonnie wee ...
... beauty's alarms Behind yon hills where Lugar flows Behold the hour , the boat arrive Beyond thee , dearie , beyond thee , dearie Blithe , blithe and merry was she Blithe hae I been on yon hill • . Bonnie lassie , will ye go Bonnie wee ...
Términos y frases comunes
amang art thou auld bard beauty beneath Birks of Aberfeldy blast bloom blow bonnie bonnie lass bosom braw breast Burns charms claut dark dear death e'en e'er Elegy ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear flowers frae grace green grove hand hast hear heart Heaven hill honour hope hour Hudibras John Barleycorn lass lassie lonely lyre maid mair maun mind monie morn mourn Muse ne'er never night o'er owre peace plain pleasure poet poor pow'r pride Quoth rill ROBERT BURNS round scene Scotland shade sigh sing skelpin smile song soul sparklin spring stream sweet tear tell thee There's thine thou thought toil trees Tune Twas vale wander wave weary weel whistle whyles wild wind ye'll youth
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Página 27 - An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers : The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd fleet ; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears ; The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years ; Anticipation forward points the view. The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a
Página 92 - I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 27 - An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun', Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie errand to a neebor town : Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu...
Página 27 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Página 19 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 44 - Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like open presses, That...
Página 27 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 56 - YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Página 71 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air : There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me o
Página 17 - twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? no— as soon Seek roses in December— ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Boeotian head.