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... tears.- And what became of him ? FOSTER - MOTHER . He went on ship - board With those bold voyagers , who made discovery Of golden lands . Leoni's younger brother Went likewise , and when he returned to Spain , He told Leoni , that the ...
... tears.- And what became of him ? FOSTER - MOTHER . He went on ship - board With those bold voyagers , who made discovery Of golden lands . Leoni's younger brother Went likewise , and when he returned to Spain , He told Leoni , that the ...
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... tears . In this deep vale He died , this seat his only monument . If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure , Stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know , that pride , Howe'er disguised in its own ...
... tears . In this deep vale He died , this seat his only monument . If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure , Stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know , that pride , Howe'er disguised in its own ...
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... tears Did glitter in the yellow moon - beam ! Well- It is a father's tale . But if that Heaven Should give me life , his childhood shall grow up Familiar with these songs , that with the night He may associate Joy ! Once more farewell ...
... tears Did glitter in the yellow moon - beam ! Well- It is a father's tale . But if that Heaven Should give me life , his childhood shall grow up Familiar with these songs , that with the night He may associate Joy ! Once more farewell ...
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... tears that fell in showers , Glimmer'd our dear - loved home , alas ! no longer ours ! Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to different Fishes men , in parce's marked out by imaginary lines drawn from rock to rock ...
... tears that fell in showers , Glimmer'd our dear - loved home , alas ! no longer ours ! Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to different Fishes men , in parce's marked out by imaginary lines drawn from rock to rock ...
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... tears of bitter grief till then unknown ! What tender vows our last sad kiss delayed ! To him we turned : -we had no other aid . Like one revived , upon his neck I wept , And her whom he had loved in joy , he said He well could love in ...
... tears of bitter grief till then unknown ! What tender vows our last sad kiss delayed ! To him we turned : -we had no other aid . Like one revived , upon his neck I wept , And her whom he had loved in joy , he said He well could love in ...
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Lyrical Ballads: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge R. L. Brett,A. R. Jones Limited preview - 2002 |
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Albatross ancyent Marinere babe beauteous Betty Foy Betty's birds black lips breeze bright child church-yard cold dead dear door doth dreadful fair father fear FOSTER-MOTHER gentle Goody Blake green happy Harry Gill hath head hear heard heart heaven Hermit high crag hill of moss idiot boy Johnny Johnny's Kilve land of mist LEWTI limbs Liswyn farm live looks Martha Ray mind mist moon moonlight moonlight bay mov'd never night o'er oh misery old Susan Gale owlets pain pass'd pond pony pony's poor old poor Susan porringer pray Quoth round sails senses fail Ship side silent silent night Simon Lee song soul spirit stars Stephen Hill stood sweet tale tears tell thee There's things thorn thou thought thro tree turn'd Twas voice wedding-guest wherefore wild wind woman wood Young Harry youth
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Page 105 - Jane; In bed she moaning lay, Till God released her of her pain ; And then she went away. So in the church-yard she was laid ; And when the grass was dry, Together round her grave we played, My brother John and I.
Page 202 - And these my exhortations ! Nor, perchance, If I should be, where I no more can hear Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams Of past existence, wilt thou then forget That on the banks of this delightful stream We stood together ; and that I, so long A worshipper of Nature, hither came, Unwearied in that service : rather say With warmer love, oh ! with far deeper zeal Of holier love.
Page 37 - Why, this is strange, I trow! Where are those lights so many and fair, That signal made but now?
Page 103 - Her eyes were fair, and very fair : Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be ?" " How many ? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me. "And where are they ? I pray you tell.
Page 195 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 198 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 195 - But oft. in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration...
Page 194 - That on a wild, secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion, and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Page vii - The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — ' 30 The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Page 200 - My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes.