The English Parnassus: An Anthology, Chiefly of Longer PoemsClarendon Press, 1911 - 767 pages |
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... pains contingent mischiefs to foresee , Make heirs for monarchs , and for God decree ? What shall we think ? Can people give away Both for themselves and sons their native sway ? Then they are left defenceless to the sword Of each ...
... pains contingent mischiefs to foresee , Make heirs for monarchs , and for God decree ? What shall we think ? Can people give away Both for themselves and sons their native sway ? Then they are left defenceless to the sword Of each ...
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... painful flight ; No pinions can pursue immortal height : Tell good Barzillai thou canst sing no more , And tell thy soul she should have fled before : Or fled she with his life , and left this verse To hang on her departed patron's ...
... painful flight ; No pinions can pursue immortal height : Tell good Barzillai thou canst sing no more , And tell thy soul she should have fled before : Or fled she with his life , and left this verse To hang on her departed patron's ...
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... pains be wrought , But genius must be born , and never can be taught . This is your portion , this your native store ; Heaven , that but once was prodigal before , To Shakespeare gave as much , -she could not give him more . Maintain ...
... pains be wrought , But genius must be born , and never can be taught . This is your portion , this your native store ; Heaven , that but once was prodigal before , To Shakespeare gave as much , -she could not give him more . Maintain ...
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... pain . Soothed with the sound , the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again , 30 40 50 And thrice he routed all his foes , and thrice he slew the slain ! The master saw the madness rise , His glowing cheeks , his ardent eyes ...
... pain . Soothed with the sound , the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again , 30 40 50 And thrice he routed all his foes , and thrice he slew the slain ! The master saw the madness rise , His glowing cheeks , his ardent eyes ...
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... pain , Gazed on the fair Who caused his care , And sigh'd and look'd , sigh'd and look'd , Sigh'd and look'd , and sigh'd again : At length with love and wine at once opprest The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast . Now strike the ...
... pain , Gazed on the fair Who caused his care , And sigh'd and look'd , sigh'd and look'd , Sigh'd and look'd , and sigh'd again : At length with love and wine at once opprest The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast . Now strike the ...
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Arcite arms beauty beneath blood breast breath brest Burns Camelot Chaucer cloud cold dark dead dear death deep doth dream earth Emelye eyes face fair fame fate fear flowers grace grief hand hast hath hear heart heaven herte honour Jebusites King Arthur kings lady Lady of Shalott light live look lord Lycidas mighty mind mordre Muse namore never night nymph o'er once Oxus pain pale PARNASSUS passion poem poet poetry praise rose round Rustum Saturn seem'd seyde shal Shanter sing Sir Bedivere sleep smile Sohrab song sorrow soul sound spirit stars sterte stood stream sweet swich sylphs tears Thebes thee ther Theseus thine things thou art thought thro trewely twas up-on voice weep whan whyl wild wind wings wolde words wyde youth
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Page 601 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more ; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring...
Page 602 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 360 - mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Page 337 - Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes; • They moved in tracks of shining white; And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire — Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 319 - Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his "humorous stage...
Page 319 - Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave, A Presence which is not to be put by...
Page 290 - ... this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft, In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light; when the fretful .stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to...
Page 331 - 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 610 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell.
Page 338 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze...