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... cold hill's side . ' I saw pale kings and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all : They cried- " La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall ! " ' I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gapéd wide ...
... cold hill's side . ' I saw pale kings and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all : They cried- " La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall ! " ' I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gapéd wide ...
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... cold as ashes ; Nor love's own kiss shall wake those eyes To lift their silken lashes . T. Campbell . THE PRIDE OF YOUTH PROUD Maisie is in the wood , Walking so early ; Sweet Robin sits on the bush , Singing so rarely . ' Tell me ...
... cold as ashes ; Nor love's own kiss shall wake those eyes To lift their silken lashes . T. Campbell . THE PRIDE OF YOUTH PROUD Maisie is in the wood , Walking so early ; Sweet Robin sits on the bush , Singing so rarely . ' Tell me ...
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... cold ashes upbraid him , — But little he'll reck , if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him . But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random ...
... cold ashes upbraid him , — But little he'll reck , if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him . But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random ...
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... cold , And the pikes were all broken or bent , and the powder was all of it spent ; And the masts and the rigging were lying over the side ; But Sir Richard cried in his English pride , ' We have fought such a fight for a day and a ...
... cold , And the pikes were all broken or bent , and the powder was all of it spent ; And the masts and the rigging were lying over the side ; But Sir Richard cried in his English pride , ' We have fought such a fight for a day and a ...
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... cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass , And silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers , while he told His rosary , and while his frosted breath , Like pious incense from a censer old ...
... cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass , And silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers , while he told His rosary , and while his frosted breath , Like pious incense from a censer old ...
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Page 279 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee...
Page 363 - Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 253 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 181 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 350 - mid the steep sky's commotion. Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed. Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean, Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread On the blue surface of thine airy surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height The locks of the approaching storm.
Page 203 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride...
Page 205 - Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 351 - Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them!
Page 355 - What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Page 332 - A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And "mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.