The Children's Garland: From the Best PoetsCoventry Patmore Macmillan, 1862 - 344 páginas |
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... But sailors were born for all weathers , Great guns let it blow , high or low , Our duty keeps us to our tethers , And where the gale drives we must go . When we entered the Straits of Gibraltar I verily thought 74 The Children's.
... But sailors were born for all weathers , Great guns let it blow , high or low , Our duty keeps us to our tethers , And where the gale drives we must go . When we entered the Straits of Gibraltar I verily thought 74 The Children's.
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... thought she'd have sunk , For the wind began so for to alter , She yaw'd just as tho ' she was drunk . The squall tore the mainsail to shivers , Helm a - weather , the hoarse boatswain cries ; Brace the foresail athwart , see she ...
... thought she'd have sunk , For the wind began so for to alter , She yaw'd just as tho ' she was drunk . The squall tore the mainsail to shivers , Helm a - weather , the hoarse boatswain cries ; Brace the foresail athwart , see she ...
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... thought of Christ who stilled the waves On the Lake of Galilee . And fast through the midnight dark and drear , Through the whistling sleet and snow , Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept T'wards the reef of Norman's Woe . And ever the ...
... thought of Christ who stilled the waves On the Lake of Galilee . And fast through the midnight dark and drear , Through the whistling sleet and snow , Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept T'wards the reef of Norman's Woe . And ever the ...
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... thought after me ? O , tell me I yet have a friend , Though a friend I am never to see . How fleet is a glance of ... thought , Gives even affliction a grace , And reconciles man to his lot . W. Cowper L HOME - THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD Oh ...
... thought after me ? O , tell me I yet have a friend , Though a friend I am never to see . How fleet is a glance of ... thought , Gives even affliction a grace , And reconciles man to his lot . W. Cowper L HOME - THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD Oh ...
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From the Best Poets Coventry Patmore. L HOME - THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD Oh , to be in England Now that April's there , And whoever wakes in England Sees , some morning , unaware , That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm ...
From the Best Poets Coventry Patmore. L HOME - THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD Oh , to be in England Now that April's there , And whoever wakes in England Sees , some morning , unaware , That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm ...
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Página 340 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 159 - 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 328 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown.
Página 67 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Página 64 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Página 261 - 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 191 - 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 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 58 - He holds him with his glittering eye — The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will.
Página 194 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.