The Literary souvenir; or, Cabinet of poetry and romance, ed. by A.A. Watts. [on large paper].Alaric Alexander Watts 1831 |
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... beneath the new May Moon Should be echoed by a livelier tune . What need to thee of mail and crest , Of foot in stirrup , spear in rest ? Over far mountains and deep seas , Earth hath no fairer fields than these ; And who , in Beauty's ...
... beneath the new May Moon Should be echoed by a livelier tune . What need to thee of mail and crest , Of foot in stirrup , spear in rest ? Over far mountains and deep seas , Earth hath no fairer fields than these ; And who , in Beauty's ...
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... Beneath an ancient oak he lay : - More years than man can count , they say , On the verge of the dim and solemn wood , Through sunshine and storm , that oak had stood . Many a loving , laughing sprite , Tended the branches by day and by ...
... Beneath an ancient oak he lay : - More years than man can count , they say , On the verge of the dim and solemn wood , Through sunshine and storm , that oak had stood . Many a loving , laughing sprite , Tended the branches by day and by ...
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... Beneath whose peaceful shelter thou wert born . " I bind thee in the snare Of thine unholy prayer ; I seal thy forehead with a viewless seal : I give into thine hand The buckler and the brand , And clasp the golden spur upon thy heel ...
... Beneath whose peaceful shelter thou wert born . " I bind thee in the snare Of thine unholy prayer ; I seal thy forehead with a viewless seal : I give into thine hand The buckler and the brand , And clasp the golden spur upon thy heel ...
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... Beneath the greenwood tree ? " - " Ere thou didst sleep , I chanced to throw A stone into the rill ; And the ripple that disturbed its flow Is on its surface still : Ere thou didst sleep , thou bad'st me sing King Arthur's favourite lay ...
... Beneath the greenwood tree ? " - " Ere thou didst sleep , I chanced to throw A stone into the rill ; And the ripple that disturbed its flow Is on its surface still : Ere thou didst sleep , thou bad'st me sing King Arthur's favourite lay ...
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... daylight waned , he slept . Poor gentleman ! - I need not say , Beneath an ancient oak he lay . " He is welcome , " - o'er his bed , Thus the beauteous Fairy said ; " He has conned the lesson now , He has 14 THE HAUNTED TREE .
... daylight waned , he slept . Poor gentleman ! - I need not say , Beneath an ancient oak he lay . " He is welcome , " - o'er his bed , Thus the beauteous Fairy said ; " He has conned the lesson now , He has 14 THE HAUNTED TREE .
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Page 113 - Our love was like most other loves, — A little glow, a little shiver, A rosebud and a pair of gloves, And "Fly Not Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted.
Page 113 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!
Page 110 - Little. Through sunny May, through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal ; I spoke her praises to the moon, I wrote them to the Sunday Journal.
Page 109 - There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that...
Page 111 - She sketched ; the vale, the wood, the beach, Grew lovelier from her pencil's shading : She botanized; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She warbled Handel ; it was grand ; She made the Catalani jealous : She touched the organ; I could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows.
Page 110 - Dark was her hair, her hand was white : Her voice was exquisitely tender ; Her eyes were full of liquid light ; I never saw a waist so slender ! Her every look, her every smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows ; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows.
Page 111 - Whose colour was extremely hectic; Her grandmother for many a year Had fed the parish with her bounty; Her second cousin was a peer, And lord lieutenant of the county.
Page 292 - Dark is his hide on either side, but the blood within doth boil ; And the dun hide glows, as if on fire, as he paws to the turmoil. His eyes are jet, and they are set in crystal rings of snow; But now they stare with one red glare of brass upon the foe.
Page 112 - She smiled on many, just for fun, — I knew that there was nothing in it; I was the first — the only one Her heart had thought of for a minute.
Page 176 - My Highland lassie was a warm-hearted, charming young creature as ever blessed a man with generous love. After a pretty long tract of the most ardent reciprocal attachment, we met by appointment, on the second Sunday of May, in a sequestered spot by the Banks of Ayr, where we spent the day in taking a farewell, before she should embark for the West Highlands, to arrange matters among her friends for our projected change of life.