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... sweet life . Note . According to the old beliefs , the green - wood , -leaves , flowers , branches were regarded as dangerous . If one picked any- thing in the green - wood , evil was sure to befall . In those lawless times , death hid ...
... sweet life . Note . According to the old beliefs , the green - wood , -leaves , flowers , branches were regarded as dangerous . If one picked any- thing in the green - wood , evil was sure to befall . In those lawless times , death hid ...
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... sweet as dew , and words as soft as rain , - But they have heard her father's step , and in he leaps again ! Out spoke the ancient fisherman , - " O what was that , my daughter ? ” " ' Twas nothing but a pebble , sir , I threw into the ...
... sweet as dew , and words as soft as rain , - But they have heard her father's step , and in he leaps again ! Out spoke the ancient fisherman , - " O what was that , my daughter ? ” " ' Twas nothing but a pebble , sir , I threw into the ...
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... sweet moan . " I set her on my pacing steed , 20 And nothing else saw all day long , For sideways would she lean , and sing A faery's song . " She found me roots of relish sweet , 25 And honey wild , and manna - dew , And sure in ...
... sweet moan . " I set her on my pacing steed , 20 And nothing else saw all day long , For sideways would she lean , and sing A faery's song . " She found me roots of relish sweet , 25 And honey wild , and manna - dew , And sure in ...
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... kissed its waves in the moonlight , ( Oh , sweet black waves in the moonlight ! ) 35 Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight and galloped away to the west . PART TWO I He did not come in the dawning THE METRICAL TALE 55.
... kissed its waves in the moonlight , ( Oh , sweet black waves in the moonlight ! ) 35 Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight and galloped away to the west . PART TWO I He did not come in the dawning THE METRICAL TALE 55.
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... sweet When all the gallery was foul with gas : But , soon as they had reached it , they were faced 85 By a big fall of roof they could not pass : And found themselves cut off from all retreat , On every hand , by that black shining wall ...
... sweet When all the gallery was foul with gas : But , soon as they had reached it , they were faced 85 By a big fall of roof they could not pass : And found themselves cut off from all retreat , On every hand , by that black shining wall ...
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Page 218 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 78 - O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)...
Page 231 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 72 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief : A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong : The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep : No more shall grief of mine the season wrong...
Page 113 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.
Page 124 - Haste thee Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; 30 Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 127 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Page 314 - Over my lady's wrist too much," or, " Paint Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat: " such stuff Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart — how shall I say? — too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. Sir, 'twas all one!
Page 75 - Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 80 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!