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... rise and fly away . Baby sleep , a little longer , Till the little limbs are stronger , If she sleeps a little longer , Baby too shall fly away . ALFRED TENNYSON . And bluer waves danced on the sea When baby Zulma 80 POEMS OF CHILDHOOD ...
... rise and fly away . Baby sleep , a little longer , Till the little limbs are stronger , If she sleeps a little longer , Baby too shall fly away . ALFRED TENNYSON . And bluer waves danced on the sea When baby Zulma 80 POEMS OF CHILDHOOD ...
Page 125
... rise ; And teach the maid , That goodness Time's rude hand defies , That virtue lives when beauty dies . DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES . FROM " THE FOREST . " DRINK to me only with thine eyes , And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave ...
... rise ; And teach the maid , That goodness Time's rude hand defies , That virtue lives when beauty dies . DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES . FROM " THE FOREST . " DRINK to me only with thine eyes , And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave ...
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... rising blush His lovelorn guest betrayed . Surprised , he sees new beauties rise , Swift mantling to the view ; Like colors o'er the morning skies , As bright , as transient too . The bashful look , the rising breast , Alternate spread ...
... rising blush His lovelorn guest betrayed . Surprised , he sees new beauties rise , Swift mantling to the view ; Like colors o'er the morning skies , As bright , as transient too . The bashful look , the rising breast , Alternate spread ...
Page 184
... rise Upon her balmy bosom , With her laughter or her sighs : And I would lie so light , so light , I scarce should be unclasped at night . ALFRED TENNYSON . BLEST AS THE IMMORTAL GODS . BLEST as the immortal gods is he , The youth who ...
... rise Upon her balmy bosom , With her laughter or her sighs : And I would lie so light , so light , I scarce should be unclasped at night . ALFRED TENNYSON . BLEST AS THE IMMORTAL GODS . BLEST as the immortal gods is he , The youth who ...
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... rise . O Love ! has she done this to thee ?! What shall , alas ! become of me ? JOHN LYLY . BAYARD Taylor . SONNET UPON A STOLEN KISS . Now gentle sleep hath closed up those eyes Which , waking , kept my boldest thoughts in awe ; And ...
... rise . O Love ! has she done this to thee ?! What shall , alas ! become of me ? JOHN LYLY . BAYARD Taylor . SONNET UPON A STOLEN KISS . Now gentle sleep hath closed up those eyes Which , waking , kept my boldest thoughts in awe ; And ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON beauty bells beneath bird blessed bosom brave breast breath bright brow Bryant cheek child clouds dark dead dear death deep doth dream earth England eyes face fair fear feet flowers gentle glory golden grace grave gray green hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hill hour Hudibras JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER King kiss lady land light lips live look Lord Merchant of Venice moon morning mother ne'er never night o'er Paradise Lost PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ROBERT BURNS rose round SHAKESPEARE shine shore sigh silent sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spring stars summer sweet tears tell thee thine things THOMAS MOORE thou art thought tree voice wave weary weep wild WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings young
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Page 514 - for Aix is in sight!" " How they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 116 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted — ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 208 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of...
Page 115 - And moan the expense of many a vanished sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
Page 415 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.
Page 404 - Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk ; And let the misty mountain-winds be free To blow against thee...
Page 239 - Farewell ! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know'st thy estimate: The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing ; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting ? And for that riches where is my deserving ? The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting, And so my patent back again is swerving. Thyself thou...
Page 317 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Page 377 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 687 - And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired; The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place...