Enoch Arden ; And, The Two Locksley HallsD.C. Heath, 1897 - 152 pages |
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... of my being sets to thee . ' 24 On her pallid cheek and forehead came a colour and a light , As I have seen the rosy red flushing in the northern night . 26 And she turn'd her bosom shaken with a sudden storm 34 LOCKSLEY HALL .
... of my being sets to thee . ' 24 On her pallid cheek and forehead came a colour and a light , As I have seen the rosy red flushing in the northern night . 26 And she turn'd her bosom shaken with a sudden storm 34 LOCKSLEY HALL .
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... thee long . ' 30 Love took up the glass of Time , and turn'd it in his glowing hands ; Every moment , lightly shaken , ran itself in golden sands . Love took up the harp of Life , and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord ...
... thee long . ' 30 Love took up the glass of Time , and turn'd it in his glowing hands ; Every moment , lightly shaken , ran itself in golden sands . Love took up the harp of Life , and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord ...
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... thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay . 46 As the husband is , the wife is thou art mated with a clown , : And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down . 48 He will hold thee , when his passion shall have ...
... thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay . 46 As the husband is , the wife is thou art mated with a clown , : And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down . 48 He will hold thee , when his passion shall have ...
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... thee with my hand ! 56 Better thou and I were lying , hidden from the heart's disgrace , Roll'd in one another's arms , and silent in a last embrace . Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth ! Cursed be the ...
... thee with my hand ! 56 Better thou and I were lying , hidden from the heart's disgrace , Roll'd in one another's arms , and silent in a last embrace . Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth ! Cursed be the ...
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... , and the shadows rise and fall . 80 Then a hand shall pass before thee , pointing to his drunken sleep , To thy widow'd marriage - pillows , to the tears that thou wilt weep . 82 6 Thou shalt hear the Never , never , ' 38 LOCKSLEY HALL .
... , and the shadows rise and fall . 80 Then a hand shall pass before thee , pointing to his drunken sleep , To thy widow'd marriage - pillows , to the tears that thou wilt weep . 82 6 Thou shalt hear the Never , never , ' 38 LOCKSLEY HALL .
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Page 41 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Page 119 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 80 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 30 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 95 - I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward. Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
Page v - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 124 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Page 84 - And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 85 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 140 - They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man...