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 24
... mountain frowns upon the scene Where summer reigns , while winter caps its crest with thawless snow . My Highland glen , my Highland glen , enshrining all I love , Full oft through thee at twilight's hour my wandering footsteps rove ...
... mountain frowns upon the scene Where summer reigns , while winter caps its crest with thawless snow . My Highland glen , my Highland glen , enshrining all I love , Full oft through thee at twilight's hour my wandering footsteps rove ...
Pagina 29
... mountain waves , Curling their crests o'er the barks so frail , That were toss'd like leaves in the autumn gale ; While anon they broke , enshrouding in foam Full many a man in an ocean tomb . ' Twas a fearful night on the surf - beat ...
... mountain waves , Curling their crests o'er the barks so frail , That were toss'd like leaves in the autumn gale ; While anon they broke , enshrouding in foam Full many a man in an ocean tomb . ' Twas a fearful night on the surf - beat ...
Pagina 39
... mountains quench their crests of living fire ; Saw the Eve like some fair maiden train'd in fashion's giddy school , [ ful ; Adding to her native beauty charms indeed most beauti- Saw her deck her dusky forehead in the gems that angels ...
... mountains quench their crests of living fire ; Saw the Eve like some fair maiden train'd in fashion's giddy school , [ ful ; Adding to her native beauty charms indeed most beauti- Saw her deck her dusky forehead in the gems that angels ...
Pagina 45
... moon In the night's dull noon Grew pale in the lurid sky , As the lightnings flash'd and the thunders crash'd , And the mews went screaming by . O ! what is the breezy mountain ? O what ROBERT DUTHIE . 45 SONG O GIVE ME FAIRY MUSIC,
... moon In the night's dull noon Grew pale in the lurid sky , As the lightnings flash'd and the thunders crash'd , And the mews went screaming by . O ! what is the breezy mountain ? O what ROBERT DUTHIE . 45 SONG O GIVE ME FAIRY MUSIC,
Pagina 46
Robert Duthie. O ! what is the breezy mountain ? O what is the whispering glade ? The roar of the mighty rapid ? The dash of the light cascade ? The brooklet's tale In the echoing vale ? — They are tame to the melody Of the tempest ...
Robert Duthie. O ! what is the breezy mountain ? O what is the whispering glade ? The roar of the mighty rapid ? The dash of the light cascade ? The brooklet's tale In the echoing vale ? — They are tame to the melody Of the tempest ...
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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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art thou awake beaming beauty bliss blood bosom break breast breath breeze brim brow burst chamois clouds dance dark death deep dream e'en earth echoes echoing song eloquence fancy feel fire fretful friends frown give glory hail hand happy haste hath hear heart heaven helmet of Navarre helots Henry of Navarre Here's a health Hielan Highland glen holy hope Hurrah Ladye love laughter life's light lips Lisping live loud lyre Macbeth Mayenne melody merry merry heart mind mirth nature Nature's ne'er never night o'er patriots peal pearls of dew poet poetic poetry Queen rain rills Robert Duthie round Sarmatia scene seraph shade sigh sing sleeping smiles song sorrow soul spirit spring Stonehaven summer sunny Suwarrow sweet sympathies tears thee thine thou art thought thunder tone tongue tree true truth waves ween wild wing youth
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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.