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Page 209 - minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim: Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 47 - 5. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door; "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- Only this, and nothing more.
Page 209 - And snowy summits old in story ; The long light shakes across the lakes And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying; Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. — TENNYSON. 5. Breathes there the man with soul so
Page 213 - 1 How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight — Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Page 17 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed! " cried the watch, as the gate bolts undrew, " Speed! " echoed the wall to us galloping through. Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. — BROWNING.
Page 207 - Scan the following selections. Note substitutions and elisions. 1. The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is gone. — FRANCIS
Page 213 - And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much loved isle. EXERCISES A. Scan the following : — Our birth is but a sleep and
Page 201 - unaccented syllables in the following selections, and name the kind of verse : — 1. Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster And with wave and whirlwind wrestle. . 2. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 207 - FRANCIS W. BOURDILLON. 2. Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. — ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. 3. Hear the robin in the rain, Not a note does he complain, But he fills the storm's refrain With music of his own.
Page 197 - 6. Merrily swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountain side or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink, Snug and safe is that nest of ours, Hidden among the summer flowers. Chee, chee, chee.