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 11
... recesses of your solemn shade : Trees ! ye are tongues whereon the zephyrs sing Their sylvan vespers , and whereon they sigh , With scarce emitted breath , their sympathies : Y Trees ! ye are moralists , and emblems meet ROBERT DUTHIE . 11.
... recesses of your solemn shade : Trees ! ye are tongues whereon the zephyrs sing Their sylvan vespers , and whereon they sigh , With scarce emitted breath , their sympathies : Y Trees ! ye are moralists , and emblems meet ROBERT DUTHIE . 11.
Pagina 16
... sympathies On they march'd in moodful silence through the thick and drizzling gloom , But their hurrying feet were beating funeral marches to the tomb ; [ prey , On they stole like sly assassins , or like wolves upon their Certain of ...
... sympathies On they march'd in moodful silence through the thick and drizzling gloom , But their hurrying feet were beating funeral marches to the tomb ; [ prey , On they stole like sly assassins , or like wolves upon their Certain of ...
Pagina 59
... Sympathies pitiful , Centering there ; Sympathies tenderly , tearfully true , Teeming with sadness or smiles ever new— Speaking emotions , inspiring the soul , Healing the wounded , and wounding the whole . Those eyes that beam❜d ...
... Sympathies pitiful , Centering there ; Sympathies tenderly , tearfully true , Teeming with sadness or smiles ever new— Speaking emotions , inspiring the soul , Healing the wounded , and wounding the whole . Those eyes that beam❜d ...
Pagina 61
... sympathies which horrors hide . Weak man ! whose acme of ambition lies In prostituted glory , what art thou , Robed in thy rainbow trappings - clownish guise ! With gory laurels reeking on thy brow ? A hero ? Nay ! the name we cannot ...
... sympathies which horrors hide . Weak man ! whose acme of ambition lies In prostituted glory , what art thou , Robed in thy rainbow trappings - clownish guise ! With gory laurels reeking on thy brow ? A hero ? Nay ! the name we cannot ...
Pagina 63
... sympathies . Could I , with prophetic eye , Scan the future like the past , Fate's unfavourable die I might venture to recast . But , since all is sealed before him , Guardian angels ! hover o'er him , If , when our parting time doth ...
... sympathies . Could I , with prophetic eye , Scan the future like the past , Fate's unfavourable die I might venture to recast . But , since all is sealed before him , Guardian angels ! hover o'er him , If , when our parting time doth ...
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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.