Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth CenturyScott, Webster & Geary, 1842 - 490 pages |
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... pains - taking inquirers might have the pleasure of the discovery . While Wordsworth was adopting the lowliest themes as the subjects of poetical description , another poet was labouring in the same field , but in a very different ...
... pains - taking inquirers might have the pleasure of the discovery . While Wordsworth was adopting the lowliest themes as the subjects of poetical description , another poet was labouring in the same field , but in a very different ...
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... pains , The ropy drivel of rheumatic brains . F. So let it be and yet , methinks , my friend , Silence were wise , where satire will not mend . Why wound the feelings of our noble youth , And grate their tender ears with odious truth ...
... pains , The ropy drivel of rheumatic brains . F. So let it be and yet , methinks , my friend , Silence were wise , where satire will not mend . Why wound the feelings of our noble youth , And grate their tender ears with odious truth ...
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... pain Is void , and ye have lived , for them , in vain . From The Mæviad LIFE OF PETER PINDAR . But what is he , that , with a Mohawk's air , " Cries Havoc , and lets slip the dogs of war ? " A bloated mass , a gross , blood - bolter'd ...
... pain Is void , and ye have lived , for them , in vain . From The Mæviad LIFE OF PETER PINDAR . But what is he , that , with a Mohawk's air , " Cries Havoc , and lets slip the dogs of war ? " A bloated mass , a gross , blood - bolter'd ...
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... pains , For which , I trow , the gaping crowd Requites him oft with plaudits loud . But , stopp'd the while thy wanton play , Applauses , too , thy feats repay : For then , beneath some urchin's hand , With modest pride thou tak'st thy ...
... pains , For which , I trow , the gaping crowd Requites him oft with plaudits loud . But , stopp'd the while thy wanton play , Applauses , too , thy feats repay : For then , beneath some urchin's hand , With modest pride thou tak'st thy ...
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... pains , To put it off ? -To breathe a little longer Is to defer our fate , but not to shun it . Small gain ! which wisdom , with indifferent eye , Beholds . Why wish to drink the bitter dregs Of life's exhausted chalice , whose last ...
... pains , To put it off ? -To breathe a little longer Is to defer our fate , but not to shun it . Small gain ! which wisdom , with indifferent eye , Beholds . Why wish to drink the bitter dregs Of life's exhausted chalice , whose last ...
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Page 111 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity ; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, 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...
Page 417 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, — While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue...
Page 109 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea 30 Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 106 - My brother John and I. And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side.' ' How many are you, then,' said I, * If they two are in heaven ?' Quick was the little Maid's reply,
Page 413 - 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 : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Page 112 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Page 380 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Page 414 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy...
Page 167 - That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up at once In green and sunny glade, There came and looked him in the face An angel beautiful and bright, And that he knew it was a fiend...
Page 108 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose, The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.