Tales, Songs and SonnetsLongman, Green, Longman and Green, 1866 - 184 pages |
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Adam Fleming ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER aught beauty beguiled blessing bosom bowers breath bright bright eyes brow calm CHARLES KINGSLEY charm child cloud dark dear death divine dream earth ELIZABETH OF RUSSIA EMPRESS ELIZABETH eyes fair faith Fanchon fancy fear feel FERROLL filled flowers fondly gaze gentle glad gleam glorious glory glow grace grave green greet hallowed hand happy hath health to thee heart Heaven HENRY CORT hope JOHN CLARE Kirtle banks LEIGH HUNT life's light Lilies lips LONGEST DAY look memory mourn ne'er neath night o'er pale pause peace proud revere round scene shadow Shakspere shrine sigh skies smile song SONNET sorrow soul spirit splendour stand stars stern stream struggle sunshine sweet tears thine things thou thought throne toil truth turn Twas Unwelcome Spring voice weary Whilst wild WILLIAM JOHNSON FOX words
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Page 159 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first sight if the bird be flown; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown.
Page 130 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
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Page 22 - ... of the captain, and sailed with him to Lisbon. Careless of life, and probably wishing to shorten it, he entered into the service of the king of Portugal, and distinguished himself in a military capacity, at some of the distant possessions of that monarch, in the Brazils. Receiving, after many years, ample rewards, and an honourable dismission, he resolved in the spirit of the times, and forgetting that for sinners like him a Saviour had died, he resolved to expiate the crime of...
Page 129 - Some men, Janet, will say I can be forgiven — some will say I cannot. I have thought much There is a God, and He knows.
Page 79 - ... launched them on the flowing river. Pale and unreal in the moonlight, the river floated them away. The lights were bright within doors when he entered, and the faces on which they shone, his own face not excepted, were soon quiedy cheerful.
Page 43 - It is common however for persons, overwhelmed with this sort of disappointment, to console themselves with an appeal to posterity, and to observe that future generations, when the venom of party...