Little Classics, Band 15Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1872 |
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Alfred Tennyson angels blossom bosom brave break breast breath bright brow Bryan Waller Procter Charles Kingsley cheek cold dark dear doth Douglas dream dying earth Edmund Clarence Stedman eyes fade fair flowers forever gleam glory glow golden gone grave green hair hand hath hear heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow hills ivy green John John Greenleaf Whittier kiss kye come hame land Lay him low leal light lips live Long-Ago look love is dead love's Mary morn never night o'er old familiar faces pale PEEL CASTLE Percy Bysshe Shelley rest Richard Realf river round shade shadow shining sigh silent sing sleep smile snow song sorrow soul spirit stars stream summer sweet tears Tell tender thee thine Thomas Moore thou art thought Three Cows voice weary weep wild William Motherwell Willie wind Woman of Three Yarrow
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Seite 51 - But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, aud this gives life to thee.
Seite 96 - burning bright, JL In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burned the fire of thine eyes ? On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire P And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of
Seite 16 - 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
Seite 214 - life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil: Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the
Seite 143 - one talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; " Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur,
Seite 64 - OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT. OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken!
Seite 106 - Pourcst thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of-the
Seite 214 - Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. From thy dead lips a clearer note is bora Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep
Seite 104 - man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ? or who could find, While fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou inad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun death with anxious strife ? — If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? Joseph Blanco
Seite 134 - But our flower was in flushing When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi, Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber! Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and forever. Sir Walter Scott.