Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the AuthorJohn Taylor, Bookseller, 1866 - 173 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... KING , AUTUMN , · THE MEMORIES OF THE PAST , SCOTIA TO ERIN , 86 88 89 92 94 96 98 LAUGHTER , 100 · EVEN TO THEE , THE SECRET OF SUCCESS , 103 104 THE YELLOW - HAMMER , 106 THE WATERFALL , 107 • THE LAKE FESTIVAL , 109 TO THE CARRON ...
... KING , AUTUMN , · THE MEMORIES OF THE PAST , SCOTIA TO ERIN , 86 88 89 92 94 96 98 LAUGHTER , 100 · EVEN TO THEE , THE SECRET OF SUCCESS , 103 104 THE YELLOW - HAMMER , 106 THE WATERFALL , 107 • THE LAKE FESTIVAL , 109 TO THE CARRON ...
Pagina 20
... king , whose subtle policy Keeps but a surface - friendship with the powers That hold with him contemporary sway , Who spreads a royal net - work in their path , With diplomatic tact , to breed insult And furnish reasonable pretext ...
... king , whose subtle policy Keeps but a surface - friendship with the powers That hold with him contemporary sway , Who spreads a royal net - work in their path , With diplomatic tact , to breed insult And furnish reasonable pretext ...
Pagina 45
... King , As they lull him to his sleep . I have rode on the foaming billows In the frown of a winter night ; When the winds in the shrouds were wailing The wrath of the winter sprite ; And the waning moon In the night's dull noon Grew ...
... King , As they lull him to his sleep . I have rode on the foaming billows In the frown of a winter night ; When the winds in the shrouds were wailing The wrath of the winter sprite ; And the waning moon In the night's dull noon Grew ...
Pagina 60
... Kings would not play at . " - Cowper . Most noble man ! thou masterpiece of God ! Oh ! when wilt thou deserve thy honour'd name , And act as man on virtue's basis broad , Unstain'd by wilful crîme or blushless shame ? Come , happy ...
... Kings would not play at . " - Cowper . Most noble man ! thou masterpiece of God ! Oh ! when wilt thou deserve thy honour'd name , And act as man on virtue's basis broad , Unstain'd by wilful crîme or blushless shame ? Come , happy ...
Pagina 66
... kings and kingdoms crumblin ' doun ; How proud are we that thine is soun ' , An ' free frae sic disorder . As honest Scotchmen we will stan ' , Honest Scotsmen , honest Scotsmen , As honest Scotsmen we will stan ' , An ' keep a ' rogues ...
... kings and kingdoms crumblin ' doun ; How proud are we that thine is soun ' , An ' free frae sic disorder . As honest Scotchmen we will stan ' , Honest Scotsmen , honest Scotsmen , As honest Scotsmen we will stan ' , An ' keep a ' rogues ...
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Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the Author Robert Duthie Volledige weergave - 1866 |
Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the Author Robert Duthie Volledige weergave - 1866 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 160 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! 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 ! And this is in the night.
Pagina 175 - was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe: Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Pagina 162 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Pagina 173 - And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Pagina 178 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops...
Pagina 177 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds...
Pagina 174 - And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for His own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Pagina 164 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...
Pagina 161 - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand: For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand...
Pagina 154 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.