The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediæval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Band 7Clarke Company, limited, 1899 |
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Abascantus Alaric Antiochus appeared Arcadius arms army Arsace asked Aurelian Aurelius barbarian beautiful body born brought Cæsar called Caranus Caru-datta cause Chariclea Chloe Claudius command Cybele Daphnis death desire Didius Dushmanta earth emperor empire enemy evil eyes father Fausta fear fortune Gaul give gods Goths Gracchus guests hand hath head hear heard heart heaven HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS holy honor Honorius Jupiter king Leucippe literature live look Lord Maitreya master Melitta Mencius mind murder nature never night once palace Palmyra passed Petosiris prison Rabbi reason received replied Roman Rome Sacontalá seems Silenus slave soldiers Sosthenes soul speak spirit stars Stilicho suffer sword Theagenes thee Thersander things thou art thou hast thought tion Trajan truth turned Vasanta-sena Visigothic walls wine wish woman words writings young youth Zenobia
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Seite xxii - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Seite 149 - Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Seite 383 - The Niobe of nations! there she stands Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchers lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers; dost thou flow, Old Tiber!
Seite xxii - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Seite 384 - There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory— when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption,— barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Seite 388 - Here pause: these graves are all too young as yet To have outgrown the sorrow which consigned Its charge to each ; and if the seal is set, Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind, Break it not thou! too surely shalt thou find Thine own well full, if thou returnest home, Of tears and gall. From the world's bitter wind Seek shelter in the shadow of the tomb. What Adonais is, why fear we to become?
Seite 387 - And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, 440 A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread.
Seite 387 - Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead 440 A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread ; And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand ; And one keen pyramid with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who planned This refuge for his memory, doth stand Like flame transformed to marble ; and beneath, A field is spread, on which a newer band Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death, 449...
Seite 386 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The...
Seite 383 - Where the car climbed the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site : — Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say,