Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. BowmanG. Routledge, 1856 - 292 pages |
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... soon that toil shall end , Soon shalt thou find a summer home , and rest , And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy shelter'd nest . Thou'rt gone , the abyss of heaven Hath swallow'd up thy form ; yet , on my heart ...
... soon that toil shall end , Soon shalt thou find a summer home , and rest , And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend Soon o'er thy shelter'd nest . Thou'rt gone , the abyss of heaven Hath swallow'd up thy form ; yet , on my heart ...
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... Soon as the daisy decks the green , Thy certain voice we hear ; Hast thou a star to guide thy path , Or mark the rolling year ? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers , When heaven is fill'd with music sweet , Of ...
... Soon as the daisy decks the green , Thy certain voice we hear ; Hast thou a star to guide thy path , Or mark the rolling year ? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers , When heaven is fill'd with music sweet , Of ...
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... of saw was there : Ice upon ice , the well - adjusted parts Were soon conjoin'd ; nor other cement ask'd Than water interfused to make them one . THE PALACE OF ICE . Lamps gracefully disposed , and 20 THE PALACE OF ICE . Rome.
... of saw was there : Ice upon ice , the well - adjusted parts Were soon conjoin'd ; nor other cement ask'd Than water interfused to make them one . THE PALACE OF ICE . Lamps gracefully disposed , and 20 THE PALACE OF ICE . Rome.
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... august . The same lubricity was found in all , And all was moist to the warm touch ; a scene Of evanescent glory , once a stream , And soon to slide into a stream again . COWPER . THE DAISY . ON FINDING ONE IN BLOOM ON CHRISTMAS.
... august . The same lubricity was found in all , And all was moist to the warm touch ; a scene Of evanescent glory , once a stream , And soon to slide into a stream again . COWPER . THE DAISY . ON FINDING ONE IN BLOOM ON CHRISTMAS.
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... Soon shall this scrip its precious load resign ; Then what but tears and hunger shall be thine ? Ye mute companions of my toils , that bear In all my griefs a more than equal share ! Here , where no springs in murmurs break away , Or ...
... Soon shall this scrip its precious load resign ; Then what but tears and hunger shall be thine ? Ye mute companions of my toils , that bear In all my griefs a more than equal share ! Here , where no springs in murmurs break away , Or ...
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Page 20 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 37 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 11 - 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 54 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?
Page 77 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 15 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee...
Page 196 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 74 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day: The...
Page 192 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 45 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee In a flood of day...