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... the Alabaster Sarcophagus , deposited in the British Museum 256 Prayer ..... 258 Hymn on the Fall of Jerusalem .. 259 A Reflection at Sea ... Robin Hood . 261 261 The Lute ..... 263 The War of the League . CONTENTS . xili.
... the Alabaster Sarcophagus , deposited in the British Museum 256 Prayer ..... 258 Hymn on the Fall of Jerusalem .. 259 A Reflection at Sea ... Robin Hood . 261 261 The Lute ..... 263 The War of the League . CONTENTS . xili.
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... falls Like cluster'd amethysts in deep festoons ; And shells are scatter'd round which Indian moons Had sheeted with the silver of their beams ; But O , what , more than all , the scene beseems , Fair , faultless forms , glide there ...
... falls Like cluster'd amethysts in deep festoons ; And shells are scatter'd round which Indian moons Had sheeted with the silver of their beams ; But O , what , more than all , the scene beseems , Fair , faultless forms , glide there ...
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... Falls for the craving hunger of the state , Thee I account still happy , and the chief Among the nations , seeing thou art free ! My native nook of earth . THE SAME SUBJECT . COWPER . " England , with all thy faults , I love thee still ...
... Falls for the craving hunger of the state , Thee I account still happy , and the chief Among the nations , seeing thou art free ! My native nook of earth . THE SAME SUBJECT . COWPER . " England , with all thy faults , I love thee still ...
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... fall , A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call ! Earth shook - red meteors flash'd along the sky , And conscious Nature shudder'd at the cry ! Oh ! righteous Heaven ! ere Freedom found a grave , Why slept the sword , omnipotent to ...
... fall , A thousand shrieks for hopeless mercy call ! Earth shook - red meteors flash'd along the sky , And conscious Nature shudder'd at the cry ! Oh ! righteous Heaven ! ere Freedom found a grave , Why slept the sword , omnipotent to ...
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... fall shall linger near . The swallow oft , beneath my thatch , Shall twitter from her clay - built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch , And share my ineal , a welcome guest . Around my ivied porch shall spring , Each fragrant ...
... fall shall linger near . The swallow oft , beneath my thatch , Shall twitter from her clay - built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch , And share my ineal , a welcome guest . Around my ivied porch shall spring , Each fragrant ...
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Page 243 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 242 - ... ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. "So boldly he...
Page 77 - In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 79 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush!
Page 248 - And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?
Page 90 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God ! Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost ! Ye wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest ! Ye eagles, playmates of the mountain-storm ! Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds ! Ye signs and wonders of the element ! Utter forth God, and fill the hills with praise...
Page 80 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 131 - ... CROMWELL, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in ; A sure and safe one, though thy...
Page 125 - Woe to the English soldiery, That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear: When waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again ; And they who fly in terror deem . A mighty host behind, And hear the tramp of thousands Upon the hollow wind.
Page 197 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.