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... arms , aspiring to a station among the chivalry of the realm , appeared in gay apparel at the court of his sovereign , and joyously received the royal command to battle against his liege's enemies . He is feasted at a sumptuous table ...
... arms , aspiring to a station among the chivalry of the realm , appeared in gay apparel at the court of his sovereign , and joyously received the royal command to battle against his liege's enemies . He is feasted at a sumptuous table ...
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... arm she bar A pair of bedés , gauded al with grene ; And thereon heng a broche of gold ful shene , On which was first writen a crounéd A , And after , Amor vincit omnia . Another nonne with hire hadde she , That was hire chapelleine ...
... arm she bar A pair of bedés , gauded al with grene ; And thereon heng a broche of gold ful shene , On which was first writen a crounéd A , And after , Amor vincit omnia . Another nonne with hire hadde she , That was hire chapelleine ...
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... short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet , If man were wise to see't , But only melancholy ! Welcome , folded arms , and fixéd eyes , A THOMAS HEYWOOD . JOHN FLETCHER . 37.
... short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet , If man were wise to see't , But only melancholy ! Welcome , folded arms , and fixéd eyes , A THOMAS HEYWOOD . JOHN FLETCHER . 37.
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... arms , and fixéd eyes , A sigh that piercing mortifies , A look that's fastened to the ground , A tongue chained up , without a sound ! Fountain heads , and pathless groves , Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks , when all ...
... arms , and fixéd eyes , A sigh that piercing mortifies , A look that's fastened to the ground , A tongue chained up , without a sound ! Fountain heads , and pathless groves , Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks , when all ...
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... arms , while both contend To win her grace , whom all commend . There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe , with taper clear , And pomp , and feast , and revelry , With mask , and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream ...
... arms , while both contend To win her grace , whom all commend . There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe , with taper clear , And pomp , and feast , and revelry , With mask , and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream ...
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Page 28 - That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou seest the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that...
Page 179 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 26 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my State with kings.
Page 176 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 492 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wan of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Page 274 - And the round ocean and the living air And the blue sky, and in the mind of man — A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth, of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive...
Page 399 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals. The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 383 - Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou ?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so," Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still ; and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
Page 68 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 408 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs; Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.