The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Volume 1Redfield, 1854 - 311 pages |
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... bower , If thou hast ever , ever felt A dream of delicate beauty melt Into the heart's recess , Seen by the soul , and seen by the mind , But indistinct its loveliness , Adored , and not defined ; A bright creation , a shadowy ray ...
... bower , If thou hast ever , ever felt A dream of delicate beauty melt Into the heart's recess , Seen by the soul , and seen by the mind , But indistinct its loveliness , Adored , and not defined ; A bright creation , a shadowy ray ...
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... bowers of Rosalie ; For there the dragon had hope to cure , By the tinkling rivulets , ever pure , By the glowing sun , and fragrant gale , His wounded honor and wounded tail ! He hied him away to the perfumed spot : The little dwarfs ...
... bowers of Rosalie ; For there the dragon had hope to cure , By the tinkling rivulets , ever pure , By the glowing sun , and fragrant gale , His wounded honor and wounded tail ! He hied him away to the perfumed spot : The little dwarfs ...
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... bower , Than Otto , the Lord of Belmont Tower . 6 Are you rich , single , and your Grace ' ? I pity your unhappy case ; Before you leave your travelling carriage , The women have arranged your marriage ; Where'er your weary wit may lead ...
... bower , Than Otto , the Lord of Belmont Tower . 6 Are you rich , single , and your Grace ' ? I pity your unhappy case ; Before you leave your travelling carriage , The women have arranged your marriage ; Where'er your weary wit may lead ...
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... bowers , And verdure to the vine . And now it was the First of May For twenty miles round all is gay , Cottage and castle keep holiday ; For how should sorrow lower On brow of rustic or of knight , When heaven itself looks all so bright ...
... bowers , And verdure to the vine . And now it was the First of May For twenty miles round all is gay , Cottage and castle keep holiday ; For how should sorrow lower On brow of rustic or of knight , When heaven itself looks all so bright ...
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... bowers , So gay they are with grass and flowers ! But the abbot was thinking of scenery , About as much in sooth , As a lover thinks of constancy , Or an advocate of truth . He did not mark how the skies in wrath Grew dark above his ...
... bowers , So gay they are with grass and flowers ! But the abbot was thinking of scenery , About as much in sooth , As a lover thinks of constancy , Or an advocate of truth . He did not mark how the skies in wrath Grew dark above his ...
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Page 132 - His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses.
Page 134 - And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage : At his approach complaint grew mild, And when his hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter.
Page 182 - No!' If he wears a top-boot in his wooing, If he comes to you riding a cob, If he talks of his baking or brewing, If he puts up his feet on the hob, If he ever drinks port after dinner, If his brow or his breeding is low, If he calls himself 'Thompson' or 'Skinner', My own Araminta, say 'No!
Page 184 - No!" He must walk like a god of old story, Come down from the home of his rest; He must smile like the sun in his glory, On the buds he loves ever the best ; And, oh ! from its ivory portal, Like music his soft speech must flow ! — If he speak, smile, or walk like a mortal, My own Araminta, say "No!
Page 183 - If he does not call Werther delicious;— My own Araminta, say 'No!' If he ever sets foot in the City Among the stockbrokers and Jews, If he has not a heart full of pity, If he don't stand six feet in his shoes, If his lips are not redder than roses, If his hands are not whiter than snow, If he has not the model of noses— My own Araminta, say 'No!
Page 140 - My father frowned; but how should gout See any happiness in kneeling? She was the daughter of a dean, Rich, fat, and rather apoplectic; She had one brother just thirteen, Whose color 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 209 - I'll make a shift to drain it, ere I part with boot and buff; Though Guy through many a gaping wound is breathing out his life, And I come to thee a landless man, my fond and faithful wife! " Sweet! we will fill our money-bags, and freight a ship for France, And mourn in merry Paris for this poor...
Page 134 - Alack the change! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled,— The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled...
Page 131 - Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste, And roads as little known as scurvy, The man who lost his way, between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. Back flew the bolt of lissom lath; Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle, Led the lorn traveller up the path, Through...
Page 54 - As he took forth a bait from his iron box. It was a bundle of beautiful things, A peacock's tail, and a butterfly's wings, A scarlet slipper, an auburn curl, A mantle of silk, and a bracelet of pearl, And a packet of letters, from whose sweet fold Such a stream of delicate odours rolled, That the abbot fell on his face, and fainted, And deemed his spirit was half-way sainted.