Lillian and Other PoemsRedfield, 1852 - 290 pages |
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Page 19
... gaze on , and nothing to hear , and ear But something to cheat the eye With a fond conception and joy of both , So that you might , that hour , be loth To change for some one's sweetest kiss The visions of unenduring bliss , Or lose ...
... gaze on , and nothing to hear , and ear But something to cheat the eye With a fond conception and joy of both , So that you might , that hour , be loth To change for some one's sweetest kiss The visions of unenduring bliss , Or lose ...
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... gaze . She wandered about all lone on the heather , She and the wild heath - birds together ; For Lillian seldom spoke or smiled , But she sang as sweet as a little child . Into her song her dreams would throng , Silly , and wild , and ...
... gaze . She wandered about all lone on the heather , She and the wild heath - birds together ; For Lillian seldom spoke or smiled , But she sang as sweet as a little child . Into her song her dreams would throng , Silly , and wild , and ...
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... gaze ; He drew the flames of his nostrils in , He veiled his claws with their speckled skin , He curled his fangs in a hideous smile ; And the song of the lady was sweet the while : — " Nonny Nonny ! who shall tell Where the summer ...
... gaze ; He drew the flames of his nostrils in , He veiled his claws with their speckled skin , He curled his fangs in a hideous smile ; And the song of the lady was sweet the while : — " Nonny Nonny ! who shall tell Where the summer ...
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... gazing on her heart's first rain , Bound in its turn by a magic chain , The silent youth stood there : Never had either been so blest ; - You that are young may picture the rest , You that are young and fair . Never before , on this ...
... gazing on her heart's first rain , Bound in its turn by a magic chain , The silent youth stood there : Never had either been so blest ; - You that are young may picture the rest , You that are young and fair . Never before , on this ...
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... gaze Count Otto gazed , Where Bertha in all her beauty blazed ; As a knight should hear Count Otto heard , When Liba sang like a forest bird- But he thought , I trow , about as long Of Bertha's beauty and Liba's song , As the sun may ...
... gaze Count Otto gazed , Where Bertha in all her beauty blazed ; As a knight should hear Count Otto heard , When Liba sang like a forest bird- But he thought , I trow , about as long Of Bertha's beauty and Liba's song , As the sun may ...
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Abbess ANDRE CHENIER ARSENE HOUSSAYE Athens beautiful Beneath bliss blue bower breath bright Bronchitis brow charm cheek clasp cold Count Otto courser dance dark delight Digore dragon dream earth engravings Entomology Episodes of Insect exquisite eyes faded fair fancy fat friars fear feel flings flowers fond friends gaze glow grace grave grief hair hand hath heard heart heaven Henry Nelson Coleridge hope hour humor illustrated insect world John Moultrie lady laugh light lips lonely look Lord lover Lurley lute maiden Muse nature never night Nonny numbers o'er pale passion Peyrouse praise prayer quadrille reader Redfield rhyme rose sigh silent sing sleep smile song soul style sweet taste tears tell thee thine thou thought to-day to-night tone TRINITY COLLEGE typography Vidal voice VOLTAIRE volume wander weep wild WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED written young youth
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Page 125 - 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 134 - 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 174 - 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 131 - 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 132 - 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 46 - Sounds seemed dropping from the skies. Stifled whispers, smothered sighs, And the breath of vernal gales, And the voice of nightingales : But the nightingales were mute, Envious, when an unseen lute Shaped the music of its chords Into passion's thrilling words. ' Smile, lady, smile ! — I will not set Upon my brow the coronet, Till thou wilt gather roses white, To wear around its gems of light.
Page 42 - The hungry and keen on the top are leaping, The lazy and fat in the depths are sleeping; Fishing is fine when the pool is muddy, Broiling is rich when the coals are ruddy!' In a monstrous fright, by the murky light, He looked to the left and he looked to the right, And what was the vision close before him, That flung such a sudden stupor o'er him?
Page 123 - 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 256 - Fling high the flambeau's light, And sing the hymn for a parted soul Beneath the silent night ! The wreath upon his head, The cross upon his breast, Let the prayer be said and the tear be shed, So, — take him to his rest ! Call ye my whole, — ay, call The lord of lute and lay ; And let him greet the sable pall With a noble song to-day. 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 132 - And then she danced, — oh, heaven, her dancing! 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.