The Book of English ElegiesW. F. March Phillipps Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879 - 316 pages |
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... captain fight on a field , And stand myself and look on , But , while I may my weapon wield , I will not fail , both heart and hand . " * * * The English men had their bows bent , Their hearts were good enow ; The first of arrows that ...
... captain fight on a field , And stand myself and look on , But , while I may my weapon wield , I will not fail , both heart and hand . " * * * The English men had their bows bent , Their hearts were good enow ; The first of arrows that ...
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... captains of might and main , They swapt together till they both sweat , With swords that were of fine Milan . These worthy freckys , for to fight , Thereto they were full fain , Till the blood out of their basnets sprent , As ever did ...
... captains of might and main , They swapt together till they both sweat , With swords that were of fine Milan . These worthy freckys , for to fight , Thereto they were full fain , Till the blood out of their basnets sprent , As ever did ...
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... see A large cloth yard and mair : Two better captains were not in Christianté , Than that day slain were there . • Grasped . 7 Stopped . An archer of Northumberland Saw slain was the lord Percy 64 ENGLISH ELEGIES . Adonais Death.
... see A large cloth yard and mair : Two better captains were not in Christianté , Than that day slain were there . • Grasped . 7 Stopped . An archer of Northumberland Saw slain was the lord Percy 64 ENGLISH ELEGIES . Adonais Death.
Page 66
... captains , as slain were there , On the march parts shall never be none . * There was never a time on the march parts , Sin ' the Percy and the Douglas met , But it was marvel , an ' the red blood ran not As the rain does in the street ...
... captains , as slain were there , On the march parts shall never be none . * There was never a time on the march parts , Sin ' the Percy and the Douglas met , But it was marvel , an ' the red blood ran not As the rain does in the street ...
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... captain closed in the tower , The lady in bower , full of beauty ; Timor mortis conturbat me . He spares no lord for his puissance , Nor clerk for his intelligence ; His awful stroke may no man flee Timor mortis conturbat me Art ...
... captain closed in the tower , The lady in bower , full of beauty ; Timor mortis conturbat me . He spares no lord for his puissance , Nor clerk for his intelligence ; His awful stroke may no man flee Timor mortis conturbat me Art ...
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Page 150 - Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due...
Page 281 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 114 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.
Page 106 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 275 - Oft, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain hath bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 181 - 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 142 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 298 - Our very hopes belied our fears — Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came, dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; she had Another morn than ours!
Page 131 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, — For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, — And thou must die.
Page 201 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How...