Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap BookFisher, Son, and Jackson, 1835 - English poetry |
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... hand . The starry heavens lit up the gloom That lay around Al Herid's tomb ; The wind was still , you might have heard The falling leaf , the rustling bird ; Yet no one heard my footstep fall , None saw my shadow on the wall : Yet ...
... hand . The starry heavens lit up the gloom That lay around Al Herid's tomb ; The wind was still , you might have heard The falling leaf , the rustling bird ; Yet no one heard my footstep fall , None saw my shadow on the wall : Yet ...
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... hand , The eldest - born sat down to share that father's high command ; And the proud nobles of the court drew forth the glittering sword , In token all were at his will , and waited but his word . An old man sits upon the walls that ...
... hand , The eldest - born sat down to share that father's high command ; And the proud nobles of the court drew forth the glittering sword , In token all were at his will , and waited but his word . An old man sits upon the walls that ...
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... hands and chains , the monarch's son is bound ; Garbed as a slave , they lead him forth the public ways along , But on his noble brow is scorn , and on his lip a song.t ' Tis midnight ; but the midnight crime is darker than the night ...
... hands and chains , the monarch's son is bound ; Garbed as a slave , they lead him forth the public ways along , But on his noble brow is scorn , and on his lip a song.t ' Tis midnight ; but the midnight crime is darker than the night ...
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... hand the pictured scroll , And bade me only fancy there A parent's agony of soul , A parent's long and last despair ; The sunshine on the sudden wave , Which closed above the youthful head , Mocking the green and quiet grave , Which ...
... hand the pictured scroll , And bade me only fancy there A parent's agony of soul , A parent's long and last despair ; The sunshine on the sudden wave , Which closed above the youthful head , Mocking the green and quiet grave , Which ...
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... be guest , Mid drapery floating round . But the small curve of that vein'd throat , Like marble , but more warm , The fairy foot and hand denote How perfect is the form . THE NIZAM'S DAUGHTER . Upon the ankle and the wrist 37.
... be guest , Mid drapery floating round . But the small curve of that vein'd throat , Like marble , but more warm , The fairy foot and hand denote How perfect is the form . THE NIZAM'S DAUGHTER . Upon the ankle and the wrist 37.
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Allom amid ANNA MARIA PORTER beauty BERNARD BARTON bough bright brow cave child Christian colours COQUETTE dark DAVID WILKIE despair doth dream drooping EMMA ROBERTS enchanted Engraved eyes fair fairy father's fear FISHER flowers FOUNTAINS gate glittering gloom gold river golden grave hall handsomely bound hath hear heart heaven hope hour JANE PORTER lady ladye leave life's lingering LONDON lonely Long Lonkin maiden meet his sight Melusine mighty morning mother never night o'er OLINTHUS GREGORY Painted pale past Pilgrim's Progress Portrait purple Quarto rall RAPHAEL SANZIO round SAMUEL DREW Says Orange Says the Lonkin scenes shadow shining silent silvery sing Sketched by Capt sleep smile shall meet solitude song SPEKE HALL strange sunshine sweep sweet thee THOMAS ALLOM thou thought tomb tower tree Twas walls wandering waves weary weep Westmorland wild wind word of light wreaths wrought young youth
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Page 18 - What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty ! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any • lock in Doubting Castle.
Page 18 - ... castle-yard, and with his key opened that door also. After he went to the iron gate, for that must be opened too, but that lock went very hard, yet the key did open it. Then they thrust open the gate to make their escape with speed ; but that gate as it opened made such a creaking, that it waked Giant Despair, who, hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt his limbs to fail, for his fits took him again, so that he could by no means go after them.
Page 86 - Hark, said Mr. Great-Heart, to what the shepherd's boy saith ! so they hearkened, and he said, He that is down needs fear no fall ; He that is low no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his Guide.
Page 18 - Then they thrust open the gate to make their escape with speed; but that gate as it opened made such a creaking, that it waked Giant Despair, who hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt his limbs to fail, for his fits took him again, so that he could by no means go after them. Then they went on, and came to the King's Highway again, and so were safe, because they were out of his jurisdiction.
Page 18 - Then Christian pulled it out of his bosom, and began to try at the dungeon-door, whose bolt, as he turned the key, gave back, and the door flew open with ease, and Christian and Hopeful both came out. Then he went to the outward door that leads into the castle-yard, and with his key opened that door also. After...
Page 4 - To hold the gold basin, It grieves me full sore ; Oh kill me, dear Lonkin, And let my mother go.
Page 86 - I am content with what I have, Little be it or much ; And, Lord ! contentment still I crave, Because thou savest such. Fulness to such a burden is, That go on pilgrimage: Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.