Class-book of English PoetryT. Nelson and Sons, 1866 - 155 pages |
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... guard our native seas , Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze , Your glorious standard launch again , To match another foe , And sweep through the deep While the stormy tempests blow ; While the battle rages ...
... guard our native seas , Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze , Your glorious standard launch again , To match another foe , And sweep through the deep While the stormy tempests blow ; While the battle rages ...
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ANON beautiful bells beneath bird bless blow Border song bosom brave breast breath breeze bright brow cheek Chevy Chase child cloud cold cried crown dark dead dear death deep disciple band doth dread dream Earl Douglas Earl Percy earth ELIZA COOK fair father fear flag of England flowers forest fly gazed glory grave grief guilders hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven hour king kiss land light Lochinvar lonely looked Lord loud morning mother mourn ne'er Netherby never night o'er pale passed poor pray prayer rills roar round sail shine shore sigh silent SIR WALTER SCOTT sleep smile song soul sound stars steed stood storm sweet tears tell tempests thee thine thou art tree Twas Tyrol voice wave weary weep wept Weser wild wind
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Page 155 - And nothing can we call our own but death ; And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 134 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 40 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior!
Page 155 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 134 - The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 123 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 97 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Page 134 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 41 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.