The English Poets: Selections, Volume 3Thomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1909 - English poetry |
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... mind Which raise a flame that will endure For ever uncorrupt and pure ; 1 A lady whom Swift had praised as a ' happy composition ' of innocence , breeding , wit , & c . 2 The Countess of Donegal , daughter to the first earl of Granard ...
... mind Which raise a flame that will endure For ever uncorrupt and pure ; 1 A lady whom Swift had praised as a ' happy composition ' of innocence , breeding , wit , & c . 2 The Countess of Donegal , daughter to the first earl of Granard ...
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... mind . This said , she plucks in Heaven's high bowers A sprig of amaranthine flowers . In nectar thrice infuses bays , Three times refined in Titan's rays ; Then calls the Graces to her aid , And sprinkles thrice the newborn maid : From ...
... mind . This said , she plucks in Heaven's high bowers A sprig of amaranthine flowers . In nectar thrice infuses bays , Three times refined in Titan's rays ; Then calls the Graces to her aid , And sprinkles thrice the newborn maid : From ...
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... mind , to enlarge his view of the world , to store up knowledge - these were things unknown to him . Any ideas , any thoughts , such as custom , chance , society or sect may suggest , are good enough , but each idea must be turned over ...
... mind , to enlarge his view of the world , to store up knowledge - these were things unknown to him . Any ideas , any thoughts , such as custom , chance , society or sect may suggest , are good enough , but each idea must be turned over ...
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... mind . As shades more sweetly recommend the light , So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit . For works may have more wit than does ' em good , As bodies perish through excess of blood . Others for Language all their care express ...
... mind . As shades more sweetly recommend the light , So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit . For works may have more wit than does ' em good , As bodies perish through excess of blood . Others for Language all their care express ...
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... mind disclose , Quick as her eyes , and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none , to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects , but never once offends . Bright as the sun , her eyes the gazers strike , And , like the sun , they shine on ...
... mind disclose , Quick as her eyes , and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none , to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects , but never once offends . Bright as the sun , her eyes the gazers strike , And , like the sun , they shine on ...
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Page 263 - Other refuge have I none — Hangs my helpless soul on Thee : Leave, ah ! leave me not alone, Still support and comfort me ! , All my trust on Thee is stay'd, All my help from Thee I bring: Cover my defenceless head With the shadow of thy wing.
Page 607 - 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? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet?
Page 381 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is— to die.
Page 567 - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden-gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that. For a
Page 332 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 532 - November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant...
Page 86 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 373 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 287 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 378 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.