The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed. with notes by C. Gibbon, Volumes 1-21873 |
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... less affec- tionate to my aunt than to me , and often told her of the time when she was afraid she was " a cross old thing . " I never saw my aunt unbend more systematically to any one . She courted Jip , though Jip never responded ...
... less affec- tionate to my aunt than to me , and often told her of the time when she was afraid she was " a cross old thing . " I never saw my aunt unbend more systematically to any one . She courted Jip , though Jip never responded ...
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Casket Charles Gibbon. | |. his child - wife . She would have been less and less a companion for him . He would have been more and more sensible of what was wanting in his home . She wouldn't have improved . It is better as it is . " " Oh ...
Casket Charles Gibbon. | |. his child - wife . She would have been less and less a companion for him . He would have been more and more sensible of what was wanting in his home . She wouldn't have improved . It is better as it is . " " Oh ...
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... less presumptuous , poetic spirits . But among those who feared him , or envied him , or loved him , there are none who sorrow not for the national loss , and grieve not that Byron fell so soon , and on a foreign shore . When Burns died ...
... less presumptuous , poetic spirits . But among those who feared him , or envied him , or loved him , there are none who sorrow not for the national loss , and grieve not that Byron fell so soon , and on a foreign shore . When Burns died ...
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... less rapid and less rash . Away ! -away ! -My breath was gone ; I saw not where he hurried on : " Twas scarcely yet the break of day , And on he foam'd - away ! -away ! The last of human sounds which rose , As I was darted from my foes ...
... less rapid and less rash . Away ! -away ! -My breath was gone ; I saw not where he hurried on : " Twas scarcely yet the break of day , And on he foam'd - away ! -away ! The last of human sounds which rose , As I was darted from my foes ...
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... less . ' ' No less ? ' says he . Why sure , that's chape enough , ' says I. Throth it is , ' says he ; and I'm thinkin ' it's too chape it is , ' says he ; for if there wasn't somethin ' the matther , it's not for that you'd be selling ...
... less . ' ' No less ? ' says he . Why sure , that's chape enough , ' says I. Throth it is , ' says he ; and I'm thinkin ' it's too chape it is , ' says he ; for if there wasn't somethin ' the matther , it's not for that you'd be selling ...
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Page 49 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 83 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 49 - 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 364 - His dews drop mutely on the hill, His cloud above it saileth still, Though on its slope men sow and reap : More softly than the dew is shed, Or cloud is floated overhead, He giveth His beloved — sleep.
Page 6 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 49 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; 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 ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 23 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY.
Page 49 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But in embalmed darkness guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Page 269 - O'er each fair sleeping brow ; She had each folded flower in sight — Where are those dreamers now ? One, 'midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream is laid — The Indian knows his place of rest, Far in the cedar shade.
Page 73 - Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.