Double acrostic enigmas, with poetical descriptions selected principally from British poets |
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... green are the young larch that under it lie , And purple the hills ' neath the bright summer sun , And silver the clear brooks that laugh as they run ; And such are the hues on life's summer I see , As I look through the gloaming , and ...
... green are the young larch that under it lie , And purple the hills ' neath the bright summer sun , And silver the clear brooks that laugh as they run ; And such are the hues on life's summer I see , As I look through the gloaming , and ...
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... green holly - wreath I found , The drops of blood were berries bright , A child was sleeping on the mound . " 1. Dulness of spirits . 2. Indefinite acceptation . 3. A Dutch painter . 4. Periodically . 5. A compound machine . 6. Where ...
... green holly - wreath I found , The drops of blood were berries bright , A child was sleeping on the mound . " 1. Dulness of spirits . 2. Indefinite acceptation . 3. A Dutch painter . 4. Periodically . 5. A compound machine . 6. Where ...
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... GREEN to green , or red to red , Perfect safety - go ahead . " 1. A musical regulation . 2. A goddess of corn . 3. A companion of Ulysses . 4. Resembling a cobweb . 5. A river of Brazil . 6. A strong provocation . 7. A woollen cloth ...
... GREEN to green , or red to red , Perfect safety - go ahead . " 1. A musical regulation . 2. A goddess of corn . 3. A companion of Ulysses . 4. Resembling a cobweb . 5. A river of Brazil . 6. A strong provocation . 7. A woollen cloth ...
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... green mantled earth and the dark heaving wave , Where tempests and troubles each moment arise , While freely we traverse the cloud - covered skies . But when o'er the mountains the son of the storm , Shaking snow from his pinions ...
... green mantled earth and the dark heaving wave , Where tempests and troubles each moment arise , While freely we traverse the cloud - covered skies . But when o'er the mountains the son of the storm , Shaking snow from his pinions ...
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... green boughs above you , You shy gipsy flow'rs . Give me the broad meadow , The valley so still , The wood's silent shadow , The blue lonely hill ; For there is your dwelling , Free life with the free , No garden flow'rs telling The ...
... green boughs above you , You shy gipsy flow'rs . Give me the broad meadow , The valley so still , The wood's silent shadow , The blue lonely hill ; For there is your dwelling , Free life with the free , No garden flow'rs telling The ...
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Page 166 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud...
Page 5 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 94 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly...
Page 151 - Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 115 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God.
Page 141 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Page 115 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 87 - Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Page 43 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page 166 - And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.