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... needs must think of her once more , How in the grave she lies ; And with his hard , rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes . Toiling , rejoicing , sorrowing , Onward through life he The Village Blacksmith 27 The Village Blacksmith.
... needs must think of her once more , How in the grave she lies ; And with his hard , rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes . Toiling , rejoicing , sorrowing , Onward through life he The Village Blacksmith 27 The Village Blacksmith.
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... tear in her eye . He took her soft hand , ere her mother could bar , - ' Now tread we a measure ! ' said young Lochinvar . So stately his form , and so lovely her face , That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did ...
... tear in her eye . He took her soft hand , ere her mother could bar , - ' Now tread we a measure ! ' said young Lochinvar . So stately his form , and so lovely her face , That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did ...
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... tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair like the brown sea - weed On the billows fall and rise . Such was the wreck of the Hesperus , In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this , On the reef of Norman's Woe ...
... tears in her eyes ; And he saw her hair like the brown sea - weed On the billows fall and rise . Such was the wreck of the Hesperus , In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this , On the reef of Norman's Woe ...
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... tears Dropped upon his glossy ears , Or a sigh came double , — Up he sprang in eager haste , Fawning , fondling , breathing fast , In a tender trouble . And this dog was satisfied , If a pale thin To Flush , my Dog 39.
... tears Dropped upon his glossy ears , Or a sigh came double , — Up he sprang in eager haste , Fawning , fondling , breathing fast , In a tender trouble . And this dog was satisfied , If a pale thin To Flush , my Dog 39.
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... Tears are in my eyes to feel Thou art made so straitly , Blessing needs must straiten too , Little canst thou joy or do , Thou who lovest greatly . Yet be blessed to the height Of all good and all delight Pervious to thy nature , — Only ...
... Tears are in my eyes to feel Thou art made so straitly , Blessing needs must straiten too , Little canst thou joy or do , Thou who lovest greatly . Yet be blessed to the height Of all good and all delight Pervious to thy nature , — Only ...
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Page 27 - Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ) Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.
Page 206 - Awaits alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to These the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Page 130 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 98 - 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 linked 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 97 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 152 - And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side: Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide.
Page 60 - 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 grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 95 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 200 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Page 151 - The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they: The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside...