Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. BowmanG. Routledge, 1856 - 292 páginas |
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Página 147
... shine all round her head , May well be breathing sweet , For flowers are they that Spring hath shed To deck her winding - sheet ; And well the tend'rest gleams may fall Of sunshine on that hillock small On which she sleeps , for they ...
... shine all round her head , May well be breathing sweet , For flowers are they that Spring hath shed To deck her winding - sheet ; And well the tend'rest gleams may fall Of sunshine on that hillock small On which she sleeps , for they ...
Página 160
... the house of prayer ? No - all is mute and lonely there , No votary breathes the vow divine , And where the torch is wont to glare , Nought but the silver moonbeams shine . PAUL AND SILAS . 161 Go , wend thy way , 160.
... the house of prayer ? No - all is mute and lonely there , No votary breathes the vow divine , And where the torch is wont to glare , Nought but the silver moonbeams shine . PAUL AND SILAS . 161 Go , wend thy way , 160.
Página 183
... In Reason's ear they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing , as they shine , The hand that made us is divine ! ADDISON . THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS . THE melancholy days are 183 The Firmament.
... In Reason's ear they all rejoice , And utter forth a glorious voice , For ever singing , as they shine , The hand that made us is divine ! ADDISON . THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS . THE melancholy days are 183 The Firmament.
Página 229
... shine , thou rolling moon , upon All this , and cast a wide and tender light , Which soften'd down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation , and fill'd up , As ' twere anew , the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still ...
... shine , thou rolling moon , upon All this , and cast a wide and tender light , Which soften'd down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation , and fill'd up , As ' twere anew , the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still ...
Página 230
... , Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine ; ' Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle , And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile . ADDISON . TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE . MILD offspring of a dark 230.
... , Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine ; ' Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle , And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile . ADDISON . TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE . MILD offspring of a dark 230.
Términos y frases comunes
battle BATTLE OF BLENHEIM BATTLE OF WATERLOO beauty beneath birds blast bower breast breath bright brow churchyard clouds crested lark dark dead death deep doth dread earth eternal ETON COLLEGE fair fear flowers gale gleam gloom glory glow grave green GRONGAR HILL hath hear heard heart heaven HERBERT KNOWLES hill hour hues hush'd LAKE REGILLUS leaves light Lochiel lonely midnight moon morn mountains mourn Nature's night o'er painted banks pale plain pride proud purple rise rise tis rocks rolling round sculptured mountains seem'd shade shed shine sight sings skies sleep smile snow soft solemn song sorrow soul sound spirit spread spring star stock dove storm stream sweet tawny eagle tears tempest thee thine thou thunder tree trembling twas vale vernal voice wave weep wild winds wings wood youth
Pasajes populares
Página 20 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Página 37 - 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.
Página 11 - 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 54 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?
Página 77 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 15 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee...
Página 196 - 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 74 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day: The...
Página 192 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 45 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee In a flood of day...