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Strona 68
... , and so late take rest ? Our labour is not good ; our best Hopes fade ; our heart is stay'd on lies : Verily , we sow wind ; and we Shall reap the whirlwind , verily . He who hath little shall not lack ; He who 68 BEAUTIFUL POETRY .
... , and so late take rest ? Our labour is not good ; our best Hopes fade ; our heart is stay'd on lies : Verily , we sow wind ; and we Shall reap the whirlwind , verily . He who hath little shall not lack ; He who 68 BEAUTIFUL POETRY .
Strona 70
... lie dreaming With folded eye ; And then alone , amid the beaming Of love's stars , thou'lt meet her In eastern sky . ARMINIUS . A spirited version of a dramatic scene in the second book of the Annals of Tacitus , by WINTHROP MACKWORTH ...
... lie dreaming With folded eye ; And then alone , amid the beaming Of love's stars , thou'lt meet her In eastern sky . ARMINIUS . A spirited version of a dramatic scene in the second book of the Annals of Tacitus , by WINTHROP MACKWORTH ...
Strona 73
... lies on its boiling breast , And our wealth's in the glorious sea : And we've hymn'd in the grasp of the fiercest night , To the god of the sons of toil , As we cleft the wave by its own white light , And away with its scaly spoil ...
... lies on its boiling breast , And our wealth's in the glorious sea : And we've hymn'd in the grasp of the fiercest night , To the god of the sons of toil , As we cleft the wave by its own white light , And away with its scaly spoil ...
Strona 74
... lies in the deep , Oh ! their fathers must be men . Do we yearn for the land , when toss'd on this ? Let it ring to the proud one's tread : Far worse than the waters and winds may hiss Where the poor man gleans his bread . If the adder ...
... lies in the deep , Oh ! their fathers must be men . Do we yearn for the land , when toss'd on this ? Let it ring to the proud one's tread : Far worse than the waters and winds may hiss Where the poor man gleans his bread . If the adder ...
Strona 76
... Lies stretched in vastness at my feet ; Voiceless the chamber and the street , And echoless the hall ; Had Death uplift his bony hand And smote all living on the land , No deeper quiet could fall . In this religious calm of night ...
... Lies stretched in vastness at my feet ; Voiceless the chamber and the street , And echoless the hall ; Had Death uplift his bony hand And smote all living on the land , No deeper quiet could fall . In this religious calm of night ...
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beauty beneath bird bless blue breast breath bright brow Brown child clouds cold comes dark dead dear death deep doth dream drop earth eyes face fair fall fear feel fire flowers golden green grow hand happy hast hath head hear heart heaven hills hope hour kiss land leaves lies light lips live look moon morning mountain nature never night o'er once pass past poem poor rest rise rose round scene shade shadow shine side sight silent sing sits sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spring stand stars strange stream summer sweet tears tell thee thine things thou thought trees voice wander waters wave weep wide wild wind wings woods young youth
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Strona 159 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best...
Strona 173 - YES! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
Strona 87 - How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep ! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue ; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful...
Strona 384 - 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.
Strona 383 - The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our fair island-story, He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro...
Strona 272 - Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze; Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew But silvery mosses that downward grew; Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief With quaint arabesques...
Strona 217 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite!
Strona 95 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Strona 193 - Wanderers in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically, To a lute's well-tuned law, Round about a throne where, sitting, "Porphyrogene, In state his glory well befitting, The ruler of the realm was seen.
Strona 383 - And all the rule, one empire: only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.