The Children's Garland from the Best PoetsMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1871 - 344 páginas |
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... Death ? and are there two ? Is Death that Woman's mate ? " The naked hull alongside came , And the twain were casting dice ; ' The game is done ! I've won , I've won ! ' Quoth she , and whistles thrice . " The Sun's rim dips ; the stars ...
... Death ? and are there two ? Is Death that Woman's mate ? " The naked hull alongside came , And the twain were casting dice ; ' The game is done ! I've won , I've won ! ' Quoth she , and whistles thrice . " The Sun's rim dips ; the stars ...
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... on Clifton down ; The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night , And saw , o'erhanging Richmond Hill , the streak of blood - red light . Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death - like 72 The Children's.
... on Clifton down ; The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night , And saw , o'erhanging Richmond Hill , the streak of blood - red light . Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death - like 72 The Children's.
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Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death - like silence broke , And with one start , and with one cry , the royal city woke . At once on all her stately gates arose the answering fires ; At once the loud alarum clashed from all her ...
Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death - like silence broke , And with one start , and with one cry , the royal city woke . At once on all her stately gates arose the answering fires ; At once the loud alarum clashed from all her ...
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... death like this , On the reef of Norman's Woe ! H. W. Longfellow XLVI A CANADIAN BOAT SONG Faintly as tolls the evening chime , Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time . Soon as the woods on the shore look dim , We'll sing at St ...
... death like this , On the reef of Norman's Woe ! H. W. Longfellow XLVI A CANADIAN BOAT SONG Faintly as tolls the evening chime , Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time . Soon as the woods on the shore look dim , We'll sing at St ...
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... death of Abel . ' The usher took six hasty strides , As smit with sudden pain ; Six hasty strides beyond the place , Then slowly back again : And down he sat beside the lad , And talked with him of Cain ; And long since then , of bloody ...
... death of Abel . ' The usher took six hasty strides , As smit with sudden pain ; Six hasty strides beyond the place , Then slowly back again : And down he sat beside the lad , And talked with him of Cain ; And long since then , of bloody ...
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Página 155 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?
Página 197 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Página 195 - 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 55 - Out of the sea came he ! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Página 263 - Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's watery beams...
Página 212 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 199 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Página 21 - I made a garland for her head, And bracelets too, and fragrant zone ; She look'd at me as she did love, And made sweet moan. She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew ; And sure in language strange she said, I love thee true.
Página 328 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail, And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances uplifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 200 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!