KismetRoberts Brothers, 1876 - 338 Seiten |
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Seite 247 - Those thou never more may'st see, Then thy heart will softly tremble With a pulse yet true to me. All my faults perchance thou knowest, All my madness none can know ; All my hopes, where'er thou goest, Wither, yet with thee they go. Every feeling hath been shaken ; Pride, which not a world could bow. Bows to thee — by thee forsaken, Even my soul forsakes me now...
Seite 292 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Seite 65 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace — all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least.
Seite 189 - The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose, For the weary winds are silent, or the moon is in the deep : Some respite to its turbulence unresting ocean knows; Whatever moves, or toils, or grieves, hath its appointed sleep. Thou in the grave shalt...
Seite 185 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Seite 270 - ... life that was lie down and lie. There glowing ghosts of flowers Draw down, draw nigh ; And wings of swift spent hours Take flight and fly ; She sees by formless gleams, She hears across cold streams, Dead mouths of many dreams that sing and sigh. Face fallen and white throat lifted, With sleepless eye She sees old loves that drifted, She knew not why, Old loves and faded fears Float down a stream that hears The flowing of all men's tears beneath the sky.
Seite 75 - the whole history of the fall of man is," as says Sharpe in a work on Egypt, "of Egyptian origin. The temptation of woman by the serpent and of man by the woman, the sacred tree of knowledge, the cherubs guarding with flaming swords the door of the Garden, the warfare declared between the woman and the serpent, may all be seen upon the Egyptian sculptured monuments.
Seite 238 - She stood there passive, motionless, expectant, until — it might have been five minutes, it might have been an hour later for aught she knew — she heard behind her the sound of footsteps brushing through the sand.
Seite 280 - ... like indeed. But the sea stands spread As one wall with the flat skies, Where the lean black craft like flies Seem well-nigh stagnated, Soon to drop off dead. Seemed it so to us When I was thine and thou wast mine. And all these things were thus, But all our world in us? Could we be so now ? Not if all beneath heaven's pall Lay dead but I and thou, Could we be so now I AN OLD SONG ENDED. * How should I your true love know From another one?' • By his cockle-hat and staff And his sandal-shoon'...
Seite 155 - Hamlyn, so you need not look so incredulous, — that 'the name that can be named is not the Eternal Name.