The Poetry and Mystery of DreamsCharles Godfrey Leland |
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... Fall hath entailed upon him ! For Man is not always bad ; at times he feels my better influ- ence ; at times his heart is ready to receive the good which a light external aid might fix upon him ! " Then the Father spoke to the Angel and ...
... Fall hath entailed upon him ! For Man is not always bad ; at times he feels my better influ- ence ; at times his heart is ready to receive the good which a light external aid might fix upon him ! " Then the Father spoke to the Angel and ...
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... fall from his limbs ? Were the prison doors opened ? The fetters fell not away ; the prison doors remained fast ; and worn down by famine and sick- ness he perished alone in the narrow dungeon . But the blessed hope which the gentle ...
... fall from his limbs ? Were the prison doors opened ? The fetters fell not away ; the prison doors remained fast ; and worn down by famine and sick- ness he perished alone in the narrow dungeon . But the blessed hope which the gentle ...
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... fall by the way , Why on the ground his liquor doth lay : But had it been in a leather bottèl , Although he had fallen , all had been well . So I wish in heaven his soul may dwell , That first found out the leather bottèl . And when the ...
... fall by the way , Why on the ground his liquor doth lay : But had it been in a leather bottèl , Although he had fallen , all had been well . So I wish in heaven his soul may dwell , That first found out the leather bottèl . And when the ...
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... falls - his honour's lost ! Then , from my couch may heavenly might Chase that worst phantom of the night ! — Again returned the scenes of youth , Of confident , undoubting truth ; Again his soul he interchanged With friends whose ...
... falls - his honour's lost ! Then , from my couch may heavenly might Chase that worst phantom of the night ! — Again returned the scenes of youth , Of confident , undoubting truth ; Again his soul he interchanged With friends whose ...
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... fall : Their tones of love I faintly hear My name in sadness call . I know that they are happy , With their angel plumage on , But my heart is very desolate To think that they are gone ! Ye guardian spirits , to whom man is dear , PARK ...
... fall : Their tones of love I faintly hear My name in sadness call . I know that they are happy , With their angel plumage on , But my heart is very desolate To think that they are gone ! Ye guardian spirits , to whom man is dear , PARK ...
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Page 206 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves. And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak...
Page 88 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless ; and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air.
Page 83 - FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Page 225 - Eve, Young virgins might have visions of delight, And soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honeyed middle of the night If ceremonies due they did aright; As, supperless to bed they must retire, And couch supine their beauties, lily white; Nor look behind, nor sideways, but require Of Heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire.
Page 88 - They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them— She was the universe.
Page 62 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 248 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams, Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint...
Page 234 - WHAT is more gentle than a wind in summer ? What is more soothing than the pretty hummer That stays one moment in an open flower, And buzzes cheerily from bower to bower ? What is more tranquil than a musk-rose blowing In a green island, far from all men's knowing ? More healthful than the leafiness of dales ? More secret than a nest of nightingales ? More serene than Cordelia's countenance ? More full of visions than a high romance...
Page 144 - The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring...
Page 250 - The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them!