The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading and recitation, in public and private seminaries. Com piled by H. Marlen1838 |
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... Soul ANONYMOUS . The Battle of Busaco The African False Logic BURNS . • • • Man was made to Mourn To Mary in Heaven To a Mountain Daisy BYROM . St. Philip Neri and the Youth The Three Black Crows • • Hodge and the Vicar BYRON . The ...
... Soul ANONYMOUS . The Battle of Busaco The African False Logic BURNS . • • • Man was made to Mourn To Mary in Heaven To a Mountain Daisy BYROM . St. Philip Neri and the Youth The Three Black Crows • • Hodge and the Vicar BYRON . The ...
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... soul so dead , Who never to himself hath said , This is my own , my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned , As home his footsteps he hath turned , From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there breathe , go , mark ...
... soul so dead , Who never to himself hath said , This is my own , my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned , As home his footsteps he hath turned , From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there breathe , go , mark ...
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... soul- A day that William never felt Return without dismay ; For well had conscience kalendar'd Young Edmund's dying day . A fearful day was that ! the rains Fell fast with tempest roar , And the swoln tide of Severn spread Far on the ...
... soul- A day that William never felt Return without dismay ; For well had conscience kalendar'd Young Edmund's dying day . A fearful day was that ! the rains Fell fast with tempest roar , And the swoln tide of Severn spread Far on the ...
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... soul appals ; " What , ho ! Lord William , rise in haste ! The water saps thy walls ! " He rose , in haste , -beneath the walls He saw the flood appear ; It hemmed him round , - ' twas midnight now , - No human aid was near ! He heard ...
... soul appals ; " What , ho ! Lord William , rise in haste ! The water saps thy walls ! " He rose , in haste , -beneath the walls He saw the flood appear ; It hemmed him round , - ' twas midnight now , - No human aid was near ! He heard ...
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... soul , your heaven was gain . " From every side , with all your might , " You scraped , and scraped beyond your right ; " And after death would fain atone , 66 By giving what is not your own . 66 While there is life there's hope , " he ...
... soul , your heaven was gain . " From every side , with all your might , " You scraped , and scraped beyond your right ; " And after death would fain atone , 66 By giving what is not your own . 66 While there is life there's hope , " he ...
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Page 283 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 274 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 294 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 62 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place...
Page 285 - I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood...
Page 63 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 283 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world: now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 238 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 238 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 157 - And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the sons of pleasure know, Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.