Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap BookFisher, Son, and Jackson, 1835 - English poetry |
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... sweeping , While they swelled upon the air ; As the winds were in their keeping , And they knew they were so fair ! A shower of spray before her , A silvery wake behind , A cloud of canvass o'er her , She sprang before the wind . She ...
... sweeping , While they swelled upon the air ; As the winds were in their keeping , And they knew they were so fair ! A shower of spray before her , A silvery wake behind , A cloud of canvass o'er her , She sprang before the wind . She ...
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... sweep ; While fair and pale , like some young girl who pines with early love , The young moon seems as if she feared to take her place above . Is there no feasting in those halls ? why is that palace mute ? The silvery cadences unheard ...
... sweep ; While fair and pale , like some young girl who pines with early love , The young moon seems as if she feared to take her place above . Is there no feasting in those halls ? why is that palace mute ? The silvery cadences unheard ...
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... sweep The murmured music of the deep , The many melodies that swell From breaking wave and red - lipp'd shell ? Love mine ! how sweet it were to leave This weary world of ours behind , And borrow from the blushing eve The wild wings of ...
... sweep The murmured music of the deep , The many melodies that swell From breaking wave and red - lipp'd shell ? Love mine ! how sweet it were to leave This weary world of ours behind , And borrow from the blushing eve The wild wings of ...
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... sweep over the sea , They'll bring back my sailor to home and to me . The curlew has left , with a fugitive wing , The nest which she built for her young in the spring , Far on the wild winds and waters to roam , But mine with the ...
... sweep over the sea , They'll bring back my sailor to home and to me . The curlew has left , with a fugitive wing , The nest which she built for her young in the spring , Far on the wild winds and waters to roam , But mine with the ...
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... sweep from East to West ; Her merchants are like kings ; While wonders in her walls attest The power that commerce brings . From wealth hath sprung up nobler fruit , Taste linked with arts divine ; The Gallery and the Institute ...
... sweep from East to West ; Her merchants are like kings ; While wonders in her walls attest The power that commerce brings . From wealth hath sprung up nobler fruit , Taste linked with arts divine ; The Gallery and the Institute ...
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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.