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... soft as silk remains . COME not , when I am dead , To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave , To trample round my fallen head , And vex th ' unhappy dust thou would'st not save , Then let the wind sweep and the plover cry , But thou go ...
... soft as silk remains . COME not , when I am dead , To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave , To trample round my fallen head , And vex th ' unhappy dust thou would'st not save , Then let the wind sweep and the plover cry , But thou go ...
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... soft descent of chesnut flowers , The cushat's cry for me . The lovely laughter of the wind - swayed wheat , The easy slope of yonder pastoral hill ; The sedgy brook whereby the red kine meet , And wade and drink their fill . A TREASURE ...
... soft descent of chesnut flowers , The cushat's cry for me . The lovely laughter of the wind - swayed wheat , The easy slope of yonder pastoral hill ; The sedgy brook whereby the red kine meet , And wade and drink their fill . A TREASURE ...
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... soft and pensive grace , A cast of thought upon her face , That suited well the forehead high , The eyelash dark and downcast eye . The mild expression spoke a mind In duty firm , composed , resign'd . O ! FRIENDS whose hearts still ...
... soft and pensive grace , A cast of thought upon her face , That suited well the forehead high , The eyelash dark and downcast eye . The mild expression spoke a mind In duty firm , composed , resign'd . O ! FRIENDS whose hearts still ...
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... soft notes for memory- The sap will surely quicken soon or late , The tardiest bird will twitter to a mate ; So Spring must dawn again with warmth and bloom ; Or in this world , or in the world to come . Christina G. Rossetti January ...
... soft notes for memory- The sap will surely quicken soon or late , The tardiest bird will twitter to a mate ; So Spring must dawn again with warmth and bloom ; Or in this world , or in the world to come . Christina G. Rossetti January ...
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... Soft and most changeful , fair with light and shade ; And some are like grey autumn days , that spread A chill on all they meet . FEW there be who pipe so sweet and loud , Their voices reach us through the lapse of space ; The noisy day ...
... Soft and most changeful , fair with light and shade ; And some are like grey autumn days , that spread A chill on all they meet . FEW there be who pipe so sweet and loud , Their voices reach us through the lapse of space ; The noisy day ...
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Adelaide Alfred Austin angels April August beauty bless blest breathe bright Bryan Charles Waller Christina Rossetti dark dear December doth dream E. B. Browning E. H. Plumptre earth Edmund Spenser Edmund Waller eyes face fair faith fear February flowers George Eliot George Mac Donald Gerald Massey glorious golden grace Hamilton King hand happy hath heart Heaven hope January Jean Ingelow Joanna Baillie John Moultrie July June land life's light live Longfellow look Lowell maiden March never night noble November o'er October Philip James Bailey Procter Robert Browning Robert Buchanan rose Selkirk September Shakespeare Sheridan Knowles shine sigh sing smile soft song sorrow soul spirit Spring star sweet Sydney Dobell tears Tennyson thee Theodore Martin thine things thou thought toil true truth voice W. M. W. Call weary Whittier William Allingham William Morris wind words Wordsworth youth
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Page 98 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 116 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 106 - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Page 51 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 79 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 19 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 120 - BID me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free, As in the whole world thou can'st find, That heart I'll give to thee. Bid that heart stay, and it will stay, To honour thy decree; Or bid it languish quite away, And 't shall do so for thee.
Page 49 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 24 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own; Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes, Then will pure light around thy path be shed, And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone.
Page 116 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.