Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth CenturyScott, Webster & Geary, 1842 - 490 pages |
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... sing - song , with which the ear of society had been lulled into sluggish acquiescence . It is no wonder that , in such an age , the versification of Pope was reckoned immeasurably superior to that of Dryden and Milton ; and that the ...
... sing - song , with which the ear of society had been lulled into sluggish acquiescence . It is no wonder that , in such an age , the versification of Pope was reckoned immeasurably superior to that of Dryden and Milton ; and that the ...
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... singing in tuneful numbers . The figments of the classical mythology , which had no meaning but in the classical ages , were also as sedulously pressed into the service of the poet as if they were still matters of public faith ; and ...
... singing in tuneful numbers . The figments of the classical mythology , which had no meaning but in the classical ages , were also as sedulously pressed into the service of the poet as if they were still matters of public faith ; and ...
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... sing in vain ; from first to last , Your joy is fustian , and your grief bombast : Rhetoric has banish'd reason ; kings and queens , Vent in hyperboles their royal spleens ; Guardsmen in metaphors express their hopes , And " maidens ...
... sing in vain ; from first to last , Your joy is fustian , and your grief bombast : Rhetoric has banish'd reason ; kings and queens , Vent in hyperboles their royal spleens ; Guardsmen in metaphors express their hopes , And " maidens ...
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... sings thy busy purr , - As , timing well the equal sound , Thy clutching feet bepat the ground , And all their harmless claws disclose , Like prickles of an early rose ; While softly from thy whisker'd cheek Thy half - closed eyes peer ...
... sings thy busy purr , - As , timing well the equal sound , Thy clutching feet bepat the ground , And all their harmless claws disclose , Like prickles of an early rose ; While softly from thy whisker'd cheek Thy half - closed eyes peer ...
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... sing ( For now and then my heart will glow ) , Thou measurest Time's expanding wing : By thee the noontide hour I know : Though silent thou , Still shalt thou flow , And jog along thy destined way : But when I glean the sultry fields ...
... sing ( For now and then my heart will glow ) , Thou measurest Time's expanding wing : By thee the noontide hour I know : Though silent thou , Still shalt thou flow , And jog along thy destined way : But when I glean the sultry fields ...
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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.