The poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, with a memoir by D. Coleridge, Volume 1E. Moxon & Company, 1864 |
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Abbess ALFRED TENNYSON beauty beneath blessed bliss blue bower breath bright brow CANTO charm cheek cold Count Otto courser dance dark DERWENT COLERIDGE Dragon dream earth Eton Etonian eyes faded fair fairy fancy fat friars father fear flings flowers fond foolscap 8vo friends frown gaze grief half hand hath heard heart heaven Henry Nelson Coleridge hope hopes and fears hour John Moultrie King Arthur kiss Knight Lady laugh light lips lonely look Lord lute maiden minstrels mirth murmur never o'er pain pale passion Poems Praed's praise prayer rose round sigh silent sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit strange sweet tears thee thine thing thou thought to-day to-night tone tree Troubadour Twas verse Vidal voice Walmer Castle wandering weep whispered wild WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER wilt WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED young youth
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Page 198 - As he took forth a bait from his iron box. Many the cunning sportsman tried, Many he flung with a frown aside ; A minstrel's harp, and a miser's chest, A hermit's cowl, and a baron's crest, Jewels of lustre, robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine That ever was pressed from the Burgundy vine. There was a perfume of sulphur and nitre...
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Page 197 - There was turning of keys, and creaking of locks, As he took forth a bait from his iron box.
Page 228 - But Folly little cares what name Of friend or foe she handles, When merriment directs the game, And midnight dims the candles ; I know that Folly's breath is weak And would not stir a feather ; But yet I would not have her speak Your name and mine together.
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Page 313 - Childhood's brow, Was the blue heaven that beamed above him. Old Time, in most appalling wrath, That valley's green repose invaded; The brooks grew dry upon his path, The birds were mute, the lilies faded; But Time so swiftly winged his flight, In haste a Grecian tomb to batter, That Childhood watched his paper kite, And knew just nothing of the matter. With curling lip, and glancing eye, Guilt gazed upon the scene a minute...
Page 314 - Then stepped a gloomy phantom up, Pale, cypress-crowned, Night's awful daughter, And proffered him a fearful cup Full to the brim of bitter water : Poor Childhood bade her tell her name ; And when the beldame muttered — " Sorrow," He said, — " Don't interrupt my game ; I'll taste it, if I must, to-morrow.
Page 342 - To horse, to horse, Sir Nicholas ! the clarion's note is high; To horse, to horse, Sir Nicholas ! the huge drum makes reply...
Page 314 - Childhood watched his paper kite, And knew just nothing of the matter. With curling lip and glancing eye Guilt gazed upon the scene a minute ; But Childhood's glance of purity Had such a holy spell within it, That the dark demon to the air Spread forth again his baffled pinion, And hid his envy and despair, Self-tortured, in his own dominion. Then...