The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English LanguageMacmillan and Company, limited, 1902 - 275 páginas |
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... fear So queer a stranger might be near ; Teeh - hee ! Look here ! Hah ! ha ! Look there ! And oh ! so playsome , oh ! so fair . And one would dance as one would spring , Or bob or bow with leering smiles , And one would swing , or sit ...
... fear So queer a stranger might be near ; Teeh - hee ! Look here ! Hah ! ha ! Look there ! And oh ! so playsome , oh ! so fair . And one would dance as one would spring , Or bob or bow with leering smiles , And one would swing , or sit ...
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... fear But that , whene'er was past away The childish time , some happier play My womanhood would cheer . I knew the time would pass away ; And yet , beside the rose - tree wail , Dear God , how seldom , if at all Did I look up to pray ...
... fear But that , whene'er was past away The childish time , some happier play My womanhood would cheer . I knew the time would pass away ; And yet , beside the rose - tree wail , Dear God , how seldom , if at all Did I look up to pray ...
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... could not brook To vex her happy heart with vague alarms , To blanch with fear her fond intrepid look , Or send a thrill through those encircling arms . · 1 ་ 1 1 Salute our English Mary , loved and lost ; The 18 The Golden Treasury.
... could not brook To vex her happy heart with vague alarms , To blanch with fear her fond intrepid look , Or send a thrill through those encircling arms . · 1 ་ 1 1 Salute our English Mary , loved and lost ; The 18 The Golden Treasury.
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... fear . ' I walk'd with our kindly old doctor as far as the head of the stair , Then I return'd to the ward ; the child didn't see I was there . Never since I was nurse , had I been so grieved and so vext ! Emmie had heard him . Softly ...
... fear . ' I walk'd with our kindly old doctor as far as the head of the stair , Then I return'd to the ward ; the child didn't see I was there . Never since I was nurse , had I been so grieved and so vext ! Emmie had heard him . Softly ...
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... fears for our delicate Emmie who scarce would escape with her life ; Then in the gray of the morning it seem'd she stood by me and smiled , And the doctor came at his hour , and we went to see the child . He had brought his ghastly ...
... fears for our delicate Emmie who scarce would escape with her life ; Then in the gray of the morning it seem'd she stood by me and smiled , And the doctor came at his hour , and we went to see the child . He had brought his ghastly ...
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Términos y frases comunes
A. H. Clough beauty beneath bird breast breath bright C. G. Rossetti cheek child dark dead dear death deep dream E. B. Browning earth Emmie eyes F. T. PALGRAVE face fair flowers FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE glory golden gone grave gray green grief hair hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hills hope hour kiss knew land leave light little birdie live lone look look'd Lord Houghton Lord Tennyson lost never night o'er O'Shaughnessy once pass'd passion prayer proputty Ravelston rest rose round Scholar Gipsy seem'd shadow ship sigh silent sings Sirmio sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit stars stirr'd sweet T. L. Peacock tears Tennyson-Turner Theocritus thine things thou thought thro Thyrsis turn'd voice vrom wave weary weep wild wind wonder words young
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