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... rest of the earth by impassable barriers of prejudice and mystery , are now found — as glimpses are opening into their interior - to have long shown some par- tiality for natural beauty . Among other poems , touching more or less upon ...
... rest of the earth by impassable barriers of prejudice and mystery , are now found — as glimpses are opening into their interior - to have long shown some par- tiality for natural beauty . Among other poems , touching more or less upon ...
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... rests on the far - re ceding and hazy distance . " Similar passages may also be gathered from the letters of St. Basil and St. Gregory , * fathers of the Greek Church . And still earlier instances of this Christian view of the earth are ...
... rests on the far - re ceding and hazy distance . " Similar passages may also be gathered from the letters of St. Basil and St. Gregory , * fathers of the Greek Church . And still earlier instances of this Christian view of the earth are ...
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... Rest , ne wist for there n'as earthly wight As I suppose had more herts ease Than I ; for I n'ad sicknesse nor disease . Wherefore I mervaile greatly of my selfe , That I so long withouten sleepe lay , And up I rose three houres after ...
... Rest , ne wist for there n'as earthly wight As I suppose had more herts ease Than I ; for I n'ad sicknesse nor disease . Wherefore I mervaile greatly of my selfe , That I so long withouten sleepe lay , And up I rose three houres after ...
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... rest ; and so justes began On every part about here and there ; Some brake his spere , some drew down hors and man , About the field astray the steedes ran ; And to behold their rule and governaunce , I you ensure it was a great ...
... rest ; and so justes began On every part about here and there ; Some brake his spere , some drew down hors and man , About the field astray the steedes ran ; And to behold their rule and governaunce , I you ensure it was a great ...
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... rest in God again , Spurn at the grave , and fearless of decay , Live ' mid the host of heaven , and star th ' ethereal way . * If wintry dearth thy prescient fears create , Or rouse thy pity for their ruin'd state ; With thymy odors ...
... rest in God again , Spurn at the grave , and fearless of decay , Live ' mid the host of heaven , and star th ' ethereal way . * If wintry dearth thy prescient fears create , Or rouse thy pity for their ruin'd state ; With thymy odors ...
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Æneid ALFRED TENNYSON beauty beneath birds Bishop of Dunkeld bloom blossoms boughs bowers breath bright brow buds charms Chaucer cheerful cloud cuckoo dance dark delight doth earth fair Fairlop field flocks flowers forest fresh gale garden gay too soon GILES FLETCHER grass green Grongar Hill grove happy hath heart heaven hill hour hues lady lark leaf leaves light live look Lord meadows mede merry MINNESINGERS morning mountain murmuring nature never night nightingale nymph o'er Phineas Fletcher plain pleasant pleasure poet purple rill ROBERT HERRICK rose round shade sight silent sing sleep smile soft song soon the flowers soul spide spring will fade stream summer sweet tell thee thine things THOMAS CAREW Thou art thought thrushes Translation tree unto vale vernal violet voice wandering wave wild WILLIAM GILPIN wind wings winter woods youth
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Page 386 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud...
Page 85 - What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 76 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 86 - We look before and after And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 39 - Where some, like magistrates correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in. their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 154 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 85 - 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.
Page 190 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath. And stars to set — but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! THE LOST PLEIAD.
Page 76 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 77 - Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.