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... Dead . The Poplar Field Winter . Annabel Lee To Mary Twist ye , Twine ye To Lucasta , on going to the Wars The Demon Lover . The Lawlands of Holland . The Valley of Unrest The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna St. Swithin's Chair ...
... Dead . The Poplar Field Winter . Annabel Lee To Mary Twist ye , Twine ye To Lucasta , on going to the Wars The Demon Lover . The Lawlands of Holland . The Valley of Unrest The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna St. Swithin's Chair ...
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... dead of the night a sweet Vision I saw ; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again . Methought from the battle - field's dreadful array Far , far I had roam'd on a desolate track : ' Twas Autumn , -and sunshine arose on the way To ...
... dead of the night a sweet Vision I saw ; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again . Methought from the battle - field's dreadful array Far , far I had roam'd on a desolate track : ' Twas Autumn , -and sunshine arose on the way To ...
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... dead of night Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery . By torch and trumpet fast array'd Each horseman drew his battle - blade , And furious every charger neigh'd To join the dreadful revelry . Then shook the ...
... dead of night Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery . By torch and trumpet fast array'd Each horseman drew his battle - blade , And furious every charger neigh'd To join the dreadful revelry . Then shook the ...
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... dead of night . ' Yet sung she , ' Brignall banks are fair , And Greta woods are gay ; I would I were with Edmund there , To reign his Queen of May ! ' With burnish'd brand and musketoon , So gallantly you come , I read you for a bold ...
... dead of night . ' Yet sung she , ' Brignall banks are fair , And Greta woods are gay ; I would I were with Edmund there , To reign his Queen of May ! ' With burnish'd brand and musketoon , So gallantly you come , I read you for a bold ...
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Page 71 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers...
Page 207 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day.
Page 64 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted...
Page 67 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 61 - The Solitary Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; 0 listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Page 33 - At length, upon the harp, with glee, Mingled with arch simplicity, A soft, yet lively, air she rung, While thus the wily lady sung : LOCHINVAR. O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm'd, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 206 - Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton, here may...
Page 28 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise ! He 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 goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
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 153 - Around, around, flew each sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute.