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 v
... hand upon him , and his merits , acknowledged by the discerning class , are in the mouths of all men . Those who are , on the other hand , thinkers as well as readers , know that true Poets are men of fine feelings and great powers ...
... hand upon him , and his merits , acknowledged by the discerning class , are in the mouths of all men . Those who are , on the other hand , thinkers as well as readers , know that true Poets are men of fine feelings and great powers ...
Pagina vi
... hands of the Most High have bended it . " The lightning is not simply an electric discharge , it is a barbed arrow of vengeance - it is winged with death . The thunder is not so much an elemental uproar as it is the voice of God . The ...
... hands of the Most High have bended it . " The lightning is not simply an electric discharge , it is a barbed arrow of vengeance - it is winged with death . The thunder is not so much an elemental uproar as it is the voice of God . The ...
Pagina ix
... hands this little work shall come , who , though never having known the author , yet , pleased with his writings , will cast a kindly thought , and stretch out a helping hand to the widow and the orphans for his sake . It will be well ...
... hands this little work shall come , who , though never having known the author , yet , pleased with his writings , will cast a kindly thought , and stretch out a helping hand to the widow and the orphans for his sake . It will be well ...
Pagina 12
... hand , In playful mood , hath cast the tick❜ling stone Into your solemn centre , that ye might Relax your frigid visage , and burst out In rippling laughter to your reedy verge ; Streams ! living psalters ! ceaseless melodists ...
... hand , In playful mood , hath cast the tick❜ling stone Into your solemn centre , that ye might Relax your frigid visage , and burst out In rippling laughter to your reedy verge ; Streams ! living psalters ! ceaseless melodists ...
Pagina 16
... Hand to hand with desperate courage , now they parried , now they thrust , [ dust ; Till the ringing steel was shatter'd , or its wielder bit the And the cannon's murd'rous missiles rock and sward in furrows 16 POEMS BY.
... Hand to hand with desperate courage , now they parried , now they thrust , [ dust ; Till the ringing steel was shatter'd , or its wielder bit the And the cannon's murd'rous missiles rock and sward in furrows 16 POEMS BY.
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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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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.