Poems of Imagination and FancyBurlock & Company, 1878 - 112 pages |
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... spirit ; locks not wide dispread , Madonna - wise on either side her head ; Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity , Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood , Revered Isabel , the crown and head , The ...
... spirit ; locks not wide dispread , Madonna - wise on either side her head ; Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity , Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood , Revered Isabel , the crown and head , The ...
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... spirit of man , Making earth wonder , So was their meaning to her words . No sword Of wrath her right arm whirled , But one poor poet's scroll , and with his word . She shook the world . THE POET'S MIND . I. VEX not thou the poet's 22 ...
... spirit of man , Making earth wonder , So was their meaning to her words . No sword Of wrath her right arm whirled , But one poor poet's scroll , and with his word . She shook the world . THE POET'S MIND . I. VEX not thou the poet's 22 ...
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... spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies . Here are cool mosses deep , And through the moss the ivies creep , And in the stream the long - leaved flowers weep , And from ...
... spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies . Here are cool mosses deep , And through the moss the ivies creep , And in the stream the long - leaved flowers weep , And from ...
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... spirit sings , " There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil , the roof and crown of things ? Lo ! in the middle of the wood , The folded leaf is wooed from out the bud With winds upon the branch , and there Grows green and ...
... spirit sings , " There is no joy but calm ! " Why should we only toil , the roof and crown of things ? Lo ! in the middle of the wood , The folded leaf is wooed from out the bud With winds upon the branch , and there Grows green and ...
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... spirits wholly To the influence of mild - minded melancholy ; To muse and brool and live again in memory , With those old faces of our infancy Heaped over with a mound of grass , Two handfuls of white dust , shut in an urn of brass ...
... spirits wholly To the influence of mild - minded melancholy ; To muse and brool and live again in memory , With those old faces of our infancy Heaped over with a mound of grass , Two handfuls of white dust , shut in an urn of brass ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON beneath Binnorie blow bower break breath bright Camelot chatter child clouds dark dead dear death deep dream earth evermore Excalibur eyes fancy father fear flowers gleam GLOWWORM golden Goody Blake grass green hand happy Harry Gill hath head hear heard heart heaven hill Katie King King Arthur kiss Lady Clara Vere Lady of Shalott lamb land light little birdie live Locksley Hall lonely look Lord LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING maiden moon morn mother murmur never New-year night numbered o'er POET LAUREATE pray Queen rest Ringlet river rock rode round scorn shadow shine sings Sir Bedivere sleep smile snow song soul spake spirit stars summer sweet SWEET AND LOW sweetest thing thee thine things thou art thought Trajan tree valley Vere de Vere voice wave weary wild wind wings Young Harry
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Page 22 - She had a rustic, woodlai.d air, And she was wildly clad; Her eyes were fair, and very fair; — Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be? " " How many? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me.
Page 59 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 25 - So in the churchyard she was laid; And , when the grass was dry , Together round her grave we played, My brother John and I. "And when the ground was white with snow , And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side." "How many are you , then ," said I , "If they two are in Heaven?
Page 24 - Then did the little maid reply : "Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the churchyard lie, Beneath the churchyard tree.
Page 80 - Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain...
Page 20 - OFT I had heard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary child. No mate, no comrade Lucy knew ; She dwelt on a wide moor, — The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door...
Page 65 - Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands...
Page 80 - Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 70 - LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING. I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
Page 78 - Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad Hearts ! without reproach or blot ; Who do thy work, and know it not : Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy...