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... doth know , And my good friend , the Callender , Will lend his horse to go . Quoth Mistress Gilpin , -That's well said ; And for that wine is dear , We will be furnish'd with our own , Which is both bright and clear . John Gilpin kiss'd ...
... doth know , And my good friend , the Callender , Will lend his horse to go . Quoth Mistress Gilpin , -That's well said ; And for that wine is dear , We will be furnish'd with our own , Which is both bright and clear . John Gilpin kiss'd ...
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... had got up He did again get down . -Now let us sing , Long live the king , And Gilpin long live he , And when he next doth ride abroad , May I be there to see ! W. COWPER . Hohenlinden ON Linden , when the sun was low , John Gilpin 25.
... had got up He did again get down . -Now let us sing , Long live the king , And Gilpin long live he , And when he next doth ride abroad , May I be there to see ! W. COWPER . Hohenlinden ON Linden , when the sun was low , John Gilpin 25.
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... doth Alice raise , And Richard is fagots bringing . Up Urgan starts , that hideous dwarf , Before Lord Richard stands , And as he cross'd and bless'd himself , I fear not sign , ' quoth the grisly elf , ' That is made with bloody hands ...
... doth Alice raise , And Richard is fagots bringing . Up Urgan starts , that hideous dwarf , Before Lord Richard stands , And as he cross'd and bless'd himself , I fear not sign , ' quoth the grisly elf , ' That is made with bloody hands ...
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... doth fade , But doth suffer a sea - change Into something rich and strange . Sea - nymphs hourly ring his knell ; Hark ! now I hear them- Ding , Dong , Bell . SHAKESPEARE . Rose Aylmer AH ! what avails the sceptred race , E 2 Stanzas 51 ...
... doth fade , But doth suffer a sea - change Into something rich and strange . Sea - nymphs hourly ring his knell ; Hark ! now I hear them- Ding , Dong , Bell . SHAKESPEARE . Rose Aylmer AH ! what avails the sceptred race , E 2 Stanzas 51 ...
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... doth to her eyes repair , To help him of his blindness ; And , being help'd , inhabits there . Then to Silvia let us sing , That Silvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling ; To her let us garlands ...
... doth to her eyes repair , To help him of his blindness ; And , being help'd , inhabits there . Then to Silvia let us sing , That Silvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling ; To her let us garlands ...
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Page 204 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 62 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted...
Page 69 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet...
Page 132 - What thou art we know not; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not: Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, 250 BOOK FOURTH.
Page 65 - Going to the Wars TELL me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True; a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 202 - Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton, here may...
Page 31 - At length, upon the harp, with glee, Mingled with arch simplicity, A soft, yet lively, air she rung, While thus the wily lady sung : LOCHINVAR. O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm'd, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 26 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise ! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies ; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes. Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Page 128 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 203 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...