Lillian, and Other PoemsRedfield, 1852 - 290 pages |
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... leaves of its age were as fresh and as green As the leaves of its early youth had been . Pure of thought should the mortal be Who sleeps beneath the Haunted Tree ; That night the minstrel laid him down Ere his brow relaxed its sullen ...
... leaves of its age were as fresh and as green As the leaves of its early youth had been . Pure of thought should the mortal be Who sleeps beneath the Haunted Tree ; That night the minstrel laid him down Ere his brow relaxed its sullen ...
Page 110
... leaf is stirr'd , By playful breeze or joyous bird , And echo shrinks as if afraid Of the faint murmur she has made . Oh ! then the spirit of music roves , With a delicate step through the myrtle groves , And still wherever he flits ...
... leaf is stirr'd , By playful breeze or joyous bird , And echo shrinks as if afraid Of the faint murmur she has made . Oh ! then the spirit of music roves , With a delicate step through the myrtle groves , And still wherever he flits ...
Page 117
... leaves , And the bride was choosing her finest flounces , And the bridegroom was scattering coin by ounces , And every stripling danced on the green With the girl he had made his idol queen ; And Vidal led the dance that day With the ...
... leaves , And the bride was choosing her finest flounces , And the bridegroom was scattering coin by ounces , And every stripling danced on the green With the girl he had made his idol queen ; And Vidal led the dance that day With the ...
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... fun ; So from the hall of poor Sir Paul Retreats the baffled dun ; So Ellen parts from the village ball , Where she leaves a heart half won . Then Florice did the child caress , And sang his 7 A FRAGMENT OF A BALLAD . 145.
... fun ; So from the hall of poor Sir Paul Retreats the baffled dun ; So Ellen parts from the village ball , Where she leaves a heart half won . Then Florice did the child caress , And sang his 7 A FRAGMENT OF A BALLAD . 145.
Page 161
... Cynic's staff , the Cynic's den , Are all he leaves his fellow men , - Heedless how this corruption fares , - Yea , heedless though it mix with theirs ! " UTOPIA . " I can dream , sir , If ALEXANDER 161 AND DIOGENES .
... Cynic's staff , the Cynic's den , Are all he leaves his fellow men , - Heedless how this corruption fares , - Yea , heedless though it mix with theirs ! " UTOPIA . " I can dream , sir , If ALEXANDER 161 AND DIOGENES .
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Page 133 - And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking; He did not make himself a bear, Although he had a taste for smoking. And when religious sects ran mad He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad It will not be improved by burning.
Page 142 - 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 : I knew it, for she told me so In phrase which was divinely moulded. She wrote a charming hand, and oh How sweetly all her notes were folded I Our love was like most other loves — A little glow, a little shiver, A rosebud and a pair of gloves, And
Page 142 - 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. We parted ; months and years...
Page 264 - Go, call him by his name; No fitter hand may crave To light the flame of a soldier's fame On the turf of a soldier's grave!
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 54 - Hastings bend the knee, Till those bewitching lips of thine Will bid me rise in bliss from mine, Smile, Lady, smile! for who would win A loveless throne through guilt and sin ? Or who would reign o'er vale and hill, If woman's heart were rebel still...
Page 141 - 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 Catalan!
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 139 - 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 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.