Harper's Cyclopædia of British and American PoetryEpes Sargent Harper & Brothers, 1881 - 958 pages |
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... Sweet was the smell of flowers white and red , The noise of birdés richt delicious ; The boughés bloomed broad above my head , The ground growand with gersses gracious : Of all pleasance that place wers plenteous , With sweet odors and ...
... Sweet was the smell of flowers white and red , The noise of birdés richt delicious ; The boughés bloomed broad above my head , The ground growand with gersses gracious : Of all pleasance that place wers plenteous , With sweet odors and ...
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... sweet- ness and grace of his manner still abide by him . He is like a speaker whose tones continue to be pleasing though he speak too long . " FROM " THE EPITHALAMION . " This pure and noble spousal tribute , the most remarkable in the ...
... sweet- ness and grace of his manner still abide by him . He is like a speaker whose tones continue to be pleasing though he speak too long . " FROM " THE EPITHALAMION . " This pure and noble spousal tribute , the most remarkable in the ...
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... sweet , so lovely , and so mild as she , Adorned with beauty's grace and virtue's store ? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see , The inward beauty of her lively spright , Garnished with heavenly gifts of high degree , Much more then ...
... sweet , so lovely , and so mild as she , Adorned with beauty's grace and virtue's store ? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see , The inward beauty of her lively spright , Garnished with heavenly gifts of high degree , Much more then ...
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... Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made ; And so of you , beauteous and lovely youth , When that shall fade , my verse distils your truth . LV . Not marble , nor the gilded monuments Of princes , shall ...
... Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made ; And so of you , beauteous and lovely youth , When that shall fade , my verse distils your truth . LV . Not marble , nor the gilded monuments Of princes , shall ...
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... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness , and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . : Sit , Jessica look , how the floor of heaven Is thick ...
... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness , and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . : Sit , Jessica look , how the floor of heaven Is thick ...
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Page 99 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?
Page 413 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 664 - art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 664 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Page 183 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 290 - Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 310 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 414 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 653 - And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!
Page 663 - Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.