Popular Poetic Pearls: And Biographies of PoetsElliott & Beezley, 1885 - 384 páginas |
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... living are blent in the slippery flood , And the feet , as they reeling and sliding go , Stumble still on the corpse that sleeps below . " What ! Francis ! -Give Charlotte my last farewell . " As the dying man murmurs , the thunders ...
... living are blent in the slippery flood , And the feet , as they reeling and sliding go , Stumble still on the corpse that sleeps below . " What ! Francis ! -Give Charlotte my last farewell . " As the dying man murmurs , the thunders ...
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... living rock , And graved in Paradise . Set round with three times eight Large diamonds , clear and bright , And each with sixty smaller ones , All changeful as the light . Lost where the thoughtless throng In fashion's mazes wind , 46 ...
... living rock , And graved in Paradise . Set round with three times eight Large diamonds , clear and bright , And each with sixty smaller ones , All changeful as the light . Lost where the thoughtless throng In fashion's mazes wind , 46 ...
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... living on the Isle the Isle of Wight . His father , a minister , was described as а man remarkable for strength and stature , and for the energetic force of his character . Alfred is the oldest of a family of poets . The three boys who ...
... living on the Isle the Isle of Wight . His father , a minister , was described as а man remarkable for strength and stature , and for the energetic force of his character . Alfred is the oldest of a family of poets . The three boys who ...
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... living English poets . The following are among his productions : Godiva , May Queen , The Gardener's Daughter , Talking Oak , Locksley Hall , The Lotus Eaters , The Princess , In Memoriam , Enoch Arden , Idyls of the King . We have not ...
... living English poets . The following are among his productions : Godiva , May Queen , The Gardener's Daughter , Talking Oak , Locksley Hall , The Lotus Eaters , The Princess , In Memoriam , Enoch Arden , Idyls of the King . We have not ...
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... living and two of ' em dead ; Grandpa helpless and tied to his bed . Nowhere to live when the house burned down ; Years of fighting with old Mother Brown ; Stockings to darn and bread to bake , Dishes to wash and dresses to make . But ...
... living and two of ' em dead ; Grandpa helpless and tied to his bed . Nowhere to live when the house burned down ; Years of fighting with old Mother Brown ; Stockings to darn and bread to bake , Dishes to wash and dresses to make . But ...
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Popular Poetic Pearls: And Biographies of Poets (Classic Reprint) Frank Mcalpine Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
ALFRED TENNYSON angels beauty bell bird blessed born breast breath bright child cloud Dacotahs dark dead dear death died dream earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes face fair fame father feet friends gentle golden grave gray hair hand happy hath heard heart heaven Hiawatha hill hope JOHN DRYDEN JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER JOSEPH ADDISON JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND kiss labor Laughing Water leave life's light lips literary little Meg living look maiden Minnehaha mother ne'er never Nevermore night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once peace Phoebe Cary poems poet poor rest Ring round SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE sang shadow shine silent sing sleep smiling song sorrow soul stood sweet tears tell tender thee There's thou thought toil Twas voice weary whispered wife wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wonder Work-work-work young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 99 - ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door; Only this, and nothing more.
Página 257 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Página 104 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend ! " I shrieked, upstarting. " Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! — quit the bust above my door ! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the Raven,
Página 201 - THE BAREFOOT BOY. BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace ; From my heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Página 251 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 141 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures
Página 100 - Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger ; hesitating then no longer,
Página 60 - ... Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 46 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven.
Página 45 - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his" failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.