Little Classics, Volume 13Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1875 |
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... heard the loud bassoon . The bride hath paced into the hall , Red as a rose is she ; Nodding their heads before her goes The merry minstrelsy . The Wedding - Guest he beat his breast , Yet he cannot chuse but hear ; And thus spake on ...
... heard the loud bassoon . The bride hath paced into the hall , Red as a rose is she ; Nodding their heads before her goes The merry minstrelsy . The Wedding - Guest he beat his breast , Yet he cannot chuse but hear ; And thus spake on ...
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... throats unslaked , with black lips baked , Agape they heard me call : Gramercy ! they for joy did grin , And all at once their breath drew in , As they were drinking all . " See ! see ! ( I cried ) she 28 LITTLE CLASSICS .
... throats unslaked , with black lips baked , Agape they heard me call : Gramercy ! they for joy did grin , And all at once their breath drew in , As they were drinking all . " See ! see ! ( I cried ) she 28 LITTLE CLASSICS .
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... heard whisper o'er the sea Off shot the spectre - bark . “ We listened and looked sideways up ! Fear at my heart , as at a cup , My life - blood seemed to sip ! The stars were dim , and thick the night , The steersman's face by his lamp ...
... heard whisper o'er the sea Off shot the spectre - bark . “ We listened and looked sideways up ! Fear at my heart , as at a cup , My life - blood seemed to sip ! The stars were dim , and thick the night , The steersman's face by his lamp ...
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... heard a roaring wind : It did not come anear ; But with its sound it shook the sails , That were so thin and sere . The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire - flags sheen , To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro ...
... heard a roaring wind : It did not come anear ; But with its sound it shook the sails , That were so thin and sere . The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire - flags sheen , To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro ...
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... heard the skylark sing ; Sometimes all little birds that are , How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning ! 66 And now ' t was like all instruments , Now like a lonely flute ; And now it is an angel's song , That ...
... heard the skylark sing ; Sometimes all little birds that are , How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning ! 66 And now ' t was like all instruments , Now like a lonely flute ; And now it is an angel's song , That ...
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Agnes Astur beneath Bingen bird blest blood bowers brave breast breath bright brow charms cloud Clusium cold cried curse Cutty-sark dark dead dear deep door dream earth EUGENE ARAM Excalibur eyes fair fear fell fierce fled flew flowers frae gaze green grew hand hath heard heart Heaven Horatius hung Kilmeny King King Arthur land land of mist Lars Porsena Lartius light lonely looked loud maiden moon morn mystery the spirit never Nevermore night O'Connor's o'er Ocnus pale Peri place is haunted plain as whisper Porphyro Quoth Quoth the raven raven Rhine rolling cloud rose round sails Sensitive Plant shadow shone sigh silent Sir Bedivere sleep smile soul sound spake spirit daunted star stood sweet TAM O'SHANTER tears thee thine thing THOMAS HOOD thou thought voice wall Wedding-Guest weep wept wild wind wings
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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.