The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader, Volumen5 |
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... thought advisable to restrict the volume to poetry alone . A full half of it , however , is devoted to that department , and only every alternate sheet of thirty- two pages consists of prose . The species of prose lesson which has been ...
... thought advisable to restrict the volume to poetry alone . A full half of it , however , is devoted to that department , and only every alternate sheet of thirty- two pages consists of prose . The species of prose lesson which has been ...
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... thought of the future , whatever I did , That I never might grieve for the past . " " You are old , Father William , " the young man cried , “ And life must be hastening away ; You are cheerful , and love to converse upon death , Now ...
... thought of the future , whatever I did , That I never might grieve for the past . " " You are old , Father William , " the young man cried , “ And life must be hastening away ; You are cheerful , and love to converse upon death , Now ...
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... thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing . My spirit flew in feathers , That is so heavy now , And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow . Hood . MY FATHER'S AT THE HELM . THE curling waves , THE FIFTH ...
... thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing . My spirit flew in feathers , That is so heavy now , And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow . Hood . MY FATHER'S AT THE HELM . THE curling waves , THE FIFTH ...
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... thought on him last in her prayers at night , And she look'd at him last as she put out the light . And she found him grow worse in the dead of the night , ( Under the gloomy elm - tree ) , And she press'd him against her warm bosom so ...
... thought on him last in her prayers at night , And she look'd at him last as she put out the light . And she found him grow worse in the dead of the night , ( Under the gloomy elm - tree ) , And she press'd him against her warm bosom so ...
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... thought on the woman who loved him best , And the children stood watching them out of the town ; For men must work , and women must weep , And there's little to earn , and many to keep , Though the harbour bar be moaning . Three wives ...
... thought on the woman who loved him best , And the children stood watching them out of the town ; For men must work , and women must weep , And there's little to earn , and many to keep , Though the harbour bar be moaning . Three wives ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 140 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Página 21 - And sweep through the deep While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave! For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave ; Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Página 204 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 92 - Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery...
Página 214 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace, Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Página 205 - 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 bridemaidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 96 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 141 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows ; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses ; I linger by my shingly bars ; I loiter round my cresses ; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Página 204 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note— As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Página 95 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.