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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... dear and fair , Of all that smiled around me there , A gentle maid , with a cloudless face , And a form so full of fairy grace ; Who , when I turned with scornful spleen From the feast in the bower , or the dance on the green , Would ...
... dear and fair , Of all that smiled around me there , A gentle maid , with a cloudless face , And a form so full of fairy grace ; Who , when I turned with scornful spleen From the feast in the bower , or the dance on the green , Would ...
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... dear Lucerida had promised her charming Ode on the Success of the Missions in Newfoundland . But you see how we are deserted . Since , then , we are afflicted by a worse than Boccaccio's plague , let us adopt Boccaccio's remedy : let us ...
... dear Lucerida had promised her charming Ode on the Success of the Missions in Newfoundland . But you see how we are deserted . Since , then , we are afflicted by a worse than Boccaccio's plague , let us adopt Boccaccio's remedy : let us ...
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... Dear mother , fare thee well ! " The second spake- " Woe's me for sin ! My elder brother's guilt is light ; His place of torment is the earth , And there comes day and night ! " I left thy pleasant home , mother , With thy blessing on ...
... Dear mother , fare thee well ! " The second spake- " Woe's me for sin ! My elder brother's guilt is light ; His place of torment is the earth , And there comes day and night ! " I left thy pleasant home , mother , With thy blessing on ...
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... dear ! I got that prayer . ' " This was the one pang that I lacked , The crowning to my misery given , — Wretch that I was ! for one so pure Could only have a place in heaven ! ' And we must part , -Oh God ! oh 70 THE THREE GUESTS .
... dear ! I got that prayer . ' " This was the one pang that I lacked , The crowning to my misery given , — Wretch that I was ! for one so pure Could only have a place in heaven ! ' And we must part , -Oh God ! oh 70 THE THREE GUESTS .
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... dear , And thy voice sounded tranquil and low in my ear : Oh ! what must Heaven's rod to the guilty one be , Thou purest of hearts - since it falls upon thee ! THE GLEN OF GLANGOOLE . BY SIR AUBREY DE VERE STANZAS . 137 Stanzas.
... dear , And thy voice sounded tranquil and low in my ear : Oh ! what must Heaven's rod to the guilty one be , Thou purest of hearts - since it falls upon thee ! THE GLEN OF GLANGOOLE . BY SIR AUBREY DE VERE STANZAS . 137 Stanzas.
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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.