Little Classics, Volume 13Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1875 |
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... Fell off in hoary flakes . " Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire ; Blue , glossy green , and velvet black , They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire . " O happy living things ! no tongue ...
... Fell off in hoary flakes . " Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire ; Blue , glossy green , and velvet black , They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire . " O happy living things ! no tongue ...
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Rossiter Johnson. Like waters shot from some high crag , The lightning fell with never a jag , A river steep and wide . " The loud wind never reached the ship , Yet now the ship moved on ! Beneath the lightning and the Moon The dead men ...
Rossiter Johnson. Like waters shot from some high crag , The lightning fell with never a jag , A river steep and wide . " The loud wind never reached the ship , Yet now the ship moved on ! Beneath the lightning and the Moon The dead men ...
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... fell down in a swound . “ How long in that same fit I lay , I have not to declare ; But ere my living life returned , I heard , and in my soul discerned , Two voices in the air . " Is it he ? ' quoth one , ' is this the man ? By Him who ...
... fell down in a swound . “ How long in that same fit I lay , I have not to declare ; But ere my living life returned , I heard , and in my soul discerned , Two voices in the air . " Is it he ? ' quoth one , ' is this the man ? By Him who ...
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... fell down in a fit ; The holy Hermit raised his eyes , And prayed where he did sit . “ I took the oars : the Pilot's boy , Who now doth crazy go , Laughed loud and long , and all the while His eyes went to and fro . Ha ! ha ! ' quoth he ...
... fell down in a fit ; The holy Hermit raised his eyes , And prayed where he did sit . “ I took the oars : the Pilot's boy , Who now doth crazy go , Laughed loud and long , and all the while His eyes went to and fro . Ha ! ha ! ' quoth he ...
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... fell blind and sick . XII . I made a footing in the wall , It was not therefrom to escape , For I had buried one and all Who loved me in a human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me : No child no sire ...
... fell blind and sick . XII . I made a footing in the wall , It was not therefrom to escape , For I had buried one and all Who loved me in a human shape ; And the whole earth would henceforth be A wider prison unto me : No child no sire ...
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Page 32 - A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. "I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.
Page 148 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, ' Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !
Page 26 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 41 - The harbour-bay was clear as glass, So smoothly it was strewn! And on the bay the moonlight lay, And the shadow of the Moon. The rock shone bright, the kirk no less, That stands above the rock: The moonlight steeped in silentness The steady weathercock. And the bay was white with silent light, Till rising from the same, Full many shapes, that shadows were, In crimson colours came.
Page 40 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 207 - I have lived my life, and that which I have done May He within himself make pure ! but thou, If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
Page 46 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 31 - I fear thee and thy glittering eye, And thy skinny hand, so brown.' 'Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest! This body dropped not down. Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
Page 7 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 34 - My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My garments all were dank ; Sure I had drunken in my dreams, And still my body drank. I moved, and could not feel my limbs: I was so light — almost I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost.