Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the AuthorJohn Taylor, Bookseller, 1866 - 173 pagina's |
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... the poet , every blade of grass lives ; every flower has its sen- timent ; every tree its moral . This perpetual personification springs from that principle of love which teaches the poet not only to regard all vi PREFACE .
... the poet , every blade of grass lives ; every flower has its sen- timent ; every tree its moral . This perpetual personification springs from that principle of love which teaches the poet not only to regard all vi PREFACE .
Pagina 12
... spring ; Your full maturity of summer leaves , His brawny manhood ; and your autumn sear , The tottering footfall of his grave ripe age ; And when the winter winds have stript and torn From twig and branch your silent homilies , Ye ...
... spring ; Your full maturity of summer leaves , His brawny manhood ; and your autumn sear , The tottering footfall of his grave ripe age ; And when the winter winds have stript and torn From twig and branch your silent homilies , Ye ...
Pagina 32
... spring ; Thou art pure as the purest of all I love— Yea , guileless and pure as the spotless dove . I love thee , child of the merry mood ! For no clouds of care o'er thy spirit brood ; Thy heart is gay , and as light , as free , As the ...
... spring ; Thou art pure as the purest of all I love— Yea , guileless and pure as the spotless dove . I love thee , child of the merry mood ! For no clouds of care o'er thy spirit brood ; Thy heart is gay , and as light , as free , As the ...
Pagina 40
... springs ; That from out the murky midnight into sudden being And as thus we mutely ponder'd , thus invoked prophetic power , Straight before our startled fancy stood the Spirit of the hour- Mercy - eyed and angel - pinion'd , light and ...
... springs ; That from out the murky midnight into sudden being And as thus we mutely ponder'd , thus invoked prophetic power , Straight before our startled fancy stood the Spirit of the hour- Mercy - eyed and angel - pinion'd , light and ...
Pagina 47
... A pleasant ramble ' tis along the shore , When Spring appears , to chase with wreathing smiles The lingering frowns of Winter all away , And shed upon our chilly hemisphere A generous sunshine wondrously ROBERT DUTHIE . 47 A SEASIDE RAMBLE,
... A pleasant ramble ' tis along the shore , When Spring appears , to chase with wreathing smiles The lingering frowns of Winter all away , And shed upon our chilly hemisphere A generous sunshine wondrously ROBERT DUTHIE . 47 A SEASIDE RAMBLE,
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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.