Leaves from the Poets' Laurels |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 28
Page 10
... half glazed , Brighten'd and for a moment seemed to roam , He squeezed from out a rag some drops of rain Into his dying child's mouth — but in vain . The boy expired - the father held the clay , And looked upon it long , and when at ...
... half glazed , Brighten'd and for a moment seemed to roam , He squeezed from out a rag some drops of rain Into his dying child's mouth — but in vain . The boy expired - the father held the clay , And looked upon it long , and when at ...
Page 22
... half surrounded On one side , and the deep sea calm and chill Upon the other , and the rosy sky With one star sparkling through it like an eye . And thus they wandered forth , and hand in hand , Over the shining pebbles and the shells ...
... half surrounded On one side , and the deep sea calm and chill Upon the other , and the rosy sky With one star sparkling through it like an eye . And thus they wandered forth , and hand in hand , Over the shining pebbles and the shells ...
Page 31
... half aware of violets in the wake Of morning rains . The swallow still delay'd To build and be about in noisy roofs , And March was moaning in the windy elm . * * * * * * Then would King Arthur that the Queen should ride With him from ...
... half aware of violets in the wake Of morning rains . The swallow still delay'd To build and be about in noisy roofs , And March was moaning in the windy elm . * * * * * * Then would King Arthur that the Queen should ride With him from ...
Page 34
... Half in tears She ceased abrupt . Given up to a proud grief , Vex'd to be vext . With love and anger moved— Love touched with scorn , and anger pierced with love . About her all unheeded , her long hair Loos'd its warm , yellow , waving ...
... Half in tears She ceased abrupt . Given up to a proud grief , Vex'd to be vext . With love and anger moved— Love touched with scorn , and anger pierced with love . About her all unheeded , her long hair Loos'd its warm , yellow , waving ...
Page 35
... half - way through the golden gates of eve The sun was rolled . The dropping tapestry glow'd With awful hues . Far off among his reeds The river , smitten with a waning light , Shone and , behind black lengths of pine revealed , The red ...
... half - way through the golden gates of eve The sun was rolled . The dropping tapestry glow'd With awful hues . Far off among his reeds The river , smitten with a waning light , Shone and , behind black lengths of pine revealed , The red ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Annabel Lee beauty beneath BISHOP'S WALK blaze blue breath bright CAPTAIN PEN CAPTAIN SWORD Christina Rossetti CONQUEROR WORM dark dead DEATH AND SISYPHUS deep delight dreams DUINO earth Elizabeth Barrett Browning eyes face fear flowers GARDENER'S DAUGhter George Meredith gleam golden hand happy hath haunt hear heard heart heaven Heshemite hope isle kiss LAST MINSTREL leaves light lips lives look Lord Byron loud midst moon morning murmur never night NIGHTINGALE o'er pain PALACE OF ART pale PERSIAN'S STORY QUADROON Queen Guinevere Robert Browning rose round sand shadow shore sighs silent sing Sir Walter Scott SISYPHUS SKELETON IN ARMOUR sleep smile soft song SONNET sorrow soul sound spirit stars stood storm STORM-BELL sweet SWORD AND CAPTAIN tears Tennyson thee thine things thou thought thro trees voice Wakedi waves weary wild William Morris wind wings youth
Popular passages
Page 166 - 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 130 - 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 94 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 54 - And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee, So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.
Page 143 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?
Page 53 - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 132 - Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstacy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 42 - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands, How lightly then it flashed along : — Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore, On winding lakes and rivers wide, That ask no aid of sail or oar, That fear no spite of wind or tide ! Nought cared this body for wind or weather When Youth and I lived in't together.
Page 130 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Page 153 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise: Silent, upon a peak in Darien.