The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English LanguageMacmillan and Company, 1867 - 332 páginas |
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... , nor is it possible , that all readers shall think the line accurately drawn . Some poems , as Gray's Elegy , the Allegro and Pense- roso , Wordsworth's Ruth or Campbell's Lord Ullin , might be claimed with perhaps equal justice for a nar-
... , nor is it possible , that all readers shall think the line accurately drawn . Some poems , as Gray's Elegy , the Allegro and Pense- roso , Wordsworth's Ruth or Campbell's Lord Ullin , might be claimed with perhaps equal justice for a nar-
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... Wordsworth CLXXV She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be ; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me . O then I saw her eye was bright , A well of love , a spring of light . But now her looks are coy and cold , To ...
... Wordsworth CLXXV She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be ; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me . O then I saw her eye was bright , A well of love , a spring of light . But now her looks are coy and cold , To ...
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... and O ! The difference to me ! W. Wordsworth CLXXVIII I travell'd among unknown men In lands beyond the sea ; Nor , England ! did I know till then What love I bore to thee . ' Tis past , that melancholy dream ! Nor will 176 Book.
... and O ! The difference to me ! W. Wordsworth CLXXVIII I travell'd among unknown men In lands beyond the sea ; Nor , England ! did I know till then What love I bore to thee . ' Tis past , that melancholy dream ! Nor will 176 Book.
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... Wordsworth CLXXIX THE EDUCATION OF NATURE Three years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said , ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine , and I will make A lady of my own ...
... Wordsworth CLXXIX THE EDUCATION OF NATURE Three years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said , ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine , and I will make A lady of my own ...
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... Wordsworth CLXXX A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seem'd a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years . No motion has she now , no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal ...
... Wordsworth CLXXX A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seem'd a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years . No motion has she now , no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Arethuse beauty beneath birds blest bonnie bower breast breath bright Brignall brow cheek Cies Islands clouds County Guy Damoetas dark dead dear death delight dost doth dream earth Elizabeth of Bohemia eyes fair Fancy fear flowers frae gentle glory golden green happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven hills kiss ladies leaves light live look'd Lord Lord Byron love's lover Lycidas lyre maid Marazion Milton mind morn mountains Muse Nature ne'er never night Nymph o'er P. B. Shelley pale passion Peneus Pindar pleasure poems poet Poetry rose round seem'd shade Shakespeare sigh silent sing sleep smiles soft song Sophia of Hanover sorrow soul sound spirit spring star stream sweet tears tell Thammuz thee There's thine thou art thought tree Twas verse voice waly waly waves weep whilst wild winds wings Wordsworth Yarrow youth
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Página 295 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That Nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest, Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest,
Página 239 - The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal these words appear : ' My name is Ozymandias, king of kings : Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. P. B, Shelley
Página 17 - boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest,
Página 50 - that roll d Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills, and they To Heaven. Their martyr'd blood and ashes sow O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant, that from these may grow A hundred-fold, who, having learnt Thy way, Early may fly the
Página 207 - ccxv HOHENLINDEN On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night , Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast array'd
Página 291 - I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began, So is it now I am a man, So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man : And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. W. Wordsworth
Página 295 - new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: —Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things.. Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts, before which
Página 28 - XLVI A SEA DIRGE Full fathom five thy father lies : Of his bones are coral made ; Those are pearls that were his eyes : Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange ; Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark ! now I hear them,— Ding, dong, Bell. W. Shakespeare
Página 144 - her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gain'd from Heaven, 'twas all he wish'd, a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties
Página 92 - Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying— There on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew Fill'd her with