The senior poetical reader, for school and home use, with notes and biogr. notices of authors by P.R. JacksonP R Jackson 1882 |
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... storm was laid , * the winds retired , Obedient to Thy will ; 30 The sea that roared at Thy command , At Thy command was still . In midst of dangers , fears , and death , Thy goodness I'll adore ; And praise Thee for Thy mercies past ...
... storm was laid , * the winds retired , Obedient to Thy will ; 30 The sea that roared at Thy command , At Thy command was still . In midst of dangers , fears , and death , Thy goodness I'll adore ; And praise Thee for Thy mercies past ...
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... storm it floated and swung , And over the waves its warning rung . When the rock was hid by the surge's * swell , The mariners * heard the warning bell ; 15 And then they knew the perilous * rock , And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok ...
... storm it floated and swung , And over the waves its warning rung . When the rock was hid by the surge's * swell , The mariners * heard the warning bell ; 15 And then they knew the perilous * rock , And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok ...
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... storm came on before its time ; She wandered up and down ; And many a hill did Lucy climb , But never reached the town . Lucy Gray : the inci- dent on which this poem is founded took place near Halifax in Yorkshire . Wild , and land ...
... storm came on before its time ; She wandered up and down ; And many a hill did Lucy climb , But never reached the town . Lucy Gray : the inci- dent on which this poem is founded took place near Halifax in Yorkshire . Wild , and land ...
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... storm . Hail , to call to at a distance . Beach , the shore of the sea . Gusty , stormy , tem- pestuous . Bickering , to burn with an unsteady light . Vaguely , without cer- tainty , not sure . Glow , to shine with intense heat . Yearn ...
... storm . Hail , to call to at a distance . Beach , the shore of the sea . Gusty , stormy , tem- pestuous . Bickering , to burn with an unsteady light . Vaguely , without cer- tainty , not sure . Glow , to shine with intense heat . Yearn ...
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... storm ( an imaginary thing ) . Scowl of heaven , the threatening darkness of the sky , betoken- ing a storm . Out spoke the hardy Highland wight : * " I'll go , my chief — I'm ready : It is not for your silver bright , But for your ...
... storm ( an imaginary thing ) . Scowl of heaven , the threatening darkness of the sky , betoken- ing a storm . Out spoke the hardy Highland wight : * " I'll go , my chief — I'm ready : It is not for your silver bright , But for your ...
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Página 129 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts ; I am no orator, as Brutus is: But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend : and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Página 29 - So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar. He stayed not for brake and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none : But ere he alighted at Netherby gate The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Página 60 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Página 29 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 119 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Página 73 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 36 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, "Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen.
Página 115 - But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of the soul.
Página 59 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl...
Página 114 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.