The British Poets, Volume 4Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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... death in the wild woods entangled , " Or tortured slowly at an Indian stake , Or smothered in the sandy hot simoom , Or crushed in Chili by earth's awful quake , Or baked in lava , a Vesuvian tomb , Or dirged by syrens and the billows ...
... death in the wild woods entangled , " Or tortured slowly at an Indian stake , Or smothered in the sandy hot simoom , Or crushed in Chili by earth's awful quake , Or baked in lava , a Vesuvian tomb , Or dirged by syrens and the billows ...
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... death will oft unthrob ' em , — A country chick is good to pick Remember me at Cobham ! Some orchard trees of course you'll lease , And boys will sometimes rob ' em , A friend ( you know ) before a foe Remember me at Cobham ! - You'll ...
... death will oft unthrob ' em , — A country chick is good to pick Remember me at Cobham ! Some orchard trees of course you'll lease , And boys will sometimes rob ' em , A friend ( you know ) before a foe Remember me at Cobham ! - You'll ...
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... death . Perchance , thou wilt extinguish them in vapors , When I am gone , and green grass covereth Thy lover , lost ; but it will be in vain - It will not bring the vital spark again . - Ah ! when those eyes , like tapers , A VALENTINE ...
... death . Perchance , thou wilt extinguish them in vapors , When I am gone , and green grass covereth Thy lover , lost ; but it will be in vain - It will not bring the vital spark again . - Ah ! when those eyes , like tapers , A VALENTINE ...
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... death's door . Full soon these living eyes , now liquid bright , Will turn dead dull , and wear no radiance , save They shed a dreary and inhuman light , Illumed within by glow - worms of the grave ; These ruddy cheeks , so pleasant to ...
... death's door . Full soon these living eyes , now liquid bright , Will turn dead dull , and wear no radiance , save They shed a dreary and inhuman light , Illumed within by glow - worms of the grave ; These ruddy cheeks , so pleasant to ...
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... Death - bed Attorney ! - I have cele- brated The Author elsewhere with approbation ; - and can- not now place him upon the Table as a Poet , without still being his LAUDER , a phrase which those persons whose course of classical reading ...
... Death - bed Attorney ! - I have cele- brated The Author elsewhere with approbation ; - and can- not now place him upon the Table as a Poet , without still being his LAUDER , a phrase which those persons whose course of classical reading ...
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Page 202 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 166 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 29 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While...
Page 162 - Com — com — I say ! You go away ! Into two parts my head you split — My fiddle cannot hear himself a bit, When I do play — You have no bis'ness in a place so still ! Can you not come another day?" Says he—
Page 260 - Till pots, and pans, and mighty kettles ring. 0 culinary Sage! (I do not mean the herb in use, That always goes along with goose,) How have I feasted on thy page ! " When like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," Till midnight, when I went to bed, And clapped my tewah-diddle 1 on my head.
Page 54 - I'LL tell you a story that's not in Tom Moore : — Young Love likes to knock at a pretty girl's door : So he called upon Lucy — 'twas just ten o'clock — Like a spruce single man, with a smart double knock. Now, a handmaid, whatever her fingers be at, Will run like a puss when she hears a rat-tat- : So Lucy ran up — and in two seconds more Had questioned the stranger and answered the door.
Page 41 - TO THE REVIEWERS. What is a modern Poet's fate ? To write his thoughts upon a slate ; — The Critic spits on what is done, — Gives it a wipe, — and all is gone.