Verses and TranslationsDeighton, Bell, 1862 - 203 Seiten |
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... mind ! I loved thee better than I loved my grammar- I used to wonder why the Mice were blind , And who was gardener to Mistress Mary , And what I don't know still - was meant by " quite contrary ? " " Tota contraria , ” an " Arundo Cami ...
... mind ! I loved thee better than I loved my grammar- I used to wonder why the Mice were blind , And who was gardener to Mistress Mary , And what I don't know still - was meant by " quite contrary ? " " Tota contraria , ” an " Arundo Cami ...
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... mind , When the others somehow vanished , And we two were left behind : - When in accents low , yet thrilling , I did all my love declare ; Mentioned that I'd not a shilling- Hinted that we need not care : And complacently you listened ...
... mind , When the others somehow vanished , And we two were left behind : - When in accents low , yet thrilling , I did all my love declare ; Mentioned that I'd not a shilling- Hinted that we need not care : And complacently you listened ...
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... mind , And a long - backed fancy - mongrel Trailing casually behind : Past the Senate - house I saunter , Whistling with an easy grace ; Past the cabbage - stalks that carpet Still the beefy market - place ; Poising evermore the ...
... mind , And a long - backed fancy - mongrel Trailing casually behind : Past the Senate - house I saunter , Whistling with an easy grace ; Past the cabbage - stalks that carpet Still the beefy market - place ; Poising evermore the ...
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... mind must have had some vital fault , That they should stick to liquors so injurious- ( Wine , water , tempered p'raps with Attic salt ) - And not at once invent that mild , luxurious , And artful beverage , Beer . How the digestion Got ...
... mind must have had some vital fault , That they should stick to liquors so injurious- ( Wine , water , tempered p'raps with Attic salt ) - And not at once invent that mild , luxurious , And artful beverage , Beer . How the digestion Got ...
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... ball or at the levée ; Never come , in fact , my first : Nor illumine cards by dozens With some labyrinthine text , Nor work smoking - caps for cousins Who were pounding at my next . Now have skirts , and minds , grown ampler ;
... ball or at the levée ; Never come , in fact , my first : Nor illumine cards by dozens With some labyrinthine text , Nor work smoking - caps for cousins Who were pounding at my next . Now have skirts , and minds , grown ampler ;
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Achaians Achilles aforetime Agamemnon Atreus Beer blue Briseis brow caput caterva Chryse Clytemnestra Cyclops dark dear doth dream drink enim escutcheon fair fibula flower fremens FRONDES EST UBI gaze gods Grace green Hæc hand haply hath haud hear heart heaven honour Houndsditch instar Jamque JONATHAN PALMER Jove juvenis juventa Königswinter light linger Lyce Lycidas mind morn muse neath neque never night nose Nymphs o'er Odit omnes once p'raps Peleus Phoebus Apollo pipe prayer puer quæ queis Quicquid quid Quod ransom rebus refert rose shade sing sleep smile soft SORACTE soul spake stars stout portèr stream sweet tell thee thine thing thou art Thou shalt tibi tuam UBI DECIDANT unto venit venti vero voice walked wandered wild wind wine wing youth Zeus
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Seite 114 - 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 : Ah me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there...
Seite 110 - Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string.
Seite 126 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 120 - Ah, who hath reft," quoth he, "my dearest pledge?" Last came, and last did go, The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : "How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Anow of such as, for their bellies...
Seite 122 - Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Seite 116 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Seite 118 - And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory: They knew not of his story; And sage Hippotades their answer brings, That not a blast was from his dungeon...
Seite 124 - Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled ; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Seite 128 - ... his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Seite 110 - And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high lawns...