The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to BayleySamuel Carter Hall H. G. Bohn, 1846 |
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... gone far in enabling him to discharge it adequately , he can have but little apprehension of the result . With scarcely an exception , he has been favoured by the living Poets with memoranda for his brief biogra- phies ; and with most ...
... gone far in enabling him to discharge it adequately , he can have but little apprehension of the result . With scarcely an exception , he has been favoured by the living Poets with memoranda for his brief biogra- phies ; and with most ...
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... gone a little too far ; and they , on the other hand , have grown complimentary : meanwhile , he waited patiently for the turn of the tide that was to bear him into a crowd of devoted admirers . He knew it would come at last ; and went ...
... gone a little too far ; and they , on the other hand , have grown complimentary : meanwhile , he waited patiently for the turn of the tide that was to bear him into a crowd of devoted admirers . He knew it would come at last ; and went ...
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... gone : The pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat : Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now , the glory and the dream ? Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The soul that rises with us , our life's star Hath had ...
... gone : The pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat : Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now , the glory and the dream ? Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : The soul that rises with us , our life's star Hath had ...
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... gone by , — The dread of vanish'd shadows . Are they so ? Is not the past all shadow ? -What are they ? Creations of the mind ? The mind can make Substance , and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been , and give A ...
... gone by , — The dread of vanish'd shadows . Are they so ? Is not the past all shadow ? -What are they ? Creations of the mind ? The mind can make Substance , and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been , and give A ...
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... gone , Or were at war with him ! he was a mark For blight and desolation , -compass'd round With hatred and contention : pain was mix'd In all which was served up to him , until , Like to the Pontic monarch of old days , He fed on ...
... gone , Or were at war with him ! he was a mark For blight and desolation , -compass'd round With hatred and contention : pain was mix'd In all which was served up to him , until , Like to the Pontic monarch of old days , He fed on ...
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Allan Cunningham beauty beneath bird born bower breast breath bright brow calm Charles Dibdin child Christ's Hospital clouds cold dark dead dear death deep delight doth dream earth fair fame fancy farewell feel flowers friends gaze genius gentle glad grace grave green grief happy hath hear heard heart heaven Henry Kirke White holy orders hope hour human John Clare labour Leigh Hunt light living Lochinvar lonely look Lord Lord Byron maid Mary merry heart mind morning mother mountain nature ne'er never night o'er pale passion poems Poet poetry rill Robert Southey rose round sigh silent sing sleep smile soft song sorrow Sotheby soul sound spirit star sweet tears thee thine things Thomas Hood thou art thought Twas voice wander waves weary weep wild wind wings writings young youth
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Página 110 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 6 - Shaped by himself with newly-learned art ; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral ; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his 'humorous stage...
Página 5 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel- I feel it all.
Página 43 - Over earth and ocean with gentle motion This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea ; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The Spirit he loves remains ; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains. The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread...
Página 5 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows — He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended: At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Página 83 - FRIEND after friend departs; Who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts,' That finds not here an end; Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying, none were blest.
Página 151 - A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, — And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast : And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee.
Página 47 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire...
Página 122 - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Página 11 - MILTON, thou shouldst be living at this hour ! England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.