College rhymes, contributed by members of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Volume 141874 |
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Amor art thou Aurora Borealis BALLIOL COLLEGE beauty bonny lasses breast breath bright brow Brussels Cardinal Wolsey Cassiope curse dark darling dead death deep DOWNING COLLEGE dream E'en earth Ebn Jahia EXETER COLL EXETER COLLEGE eyes fair Fairy Land fall flowers forget gaze glad gleam gold golden GORDON CAMPBELL Harry Polpèn hath heart Heaven Hey Diddle Diddle hour Hyperboreans Iolanthe kiss Lamlash lassie life's light lily lips live lone love-tide Love's Maiden memory morning ne'er never night o'er OXFORD quæ quiet eventide Rejected Addresses roses shade shadows shine sighs sight sing skies smile soft song sorrow soul splendour spring summer sweet swift tears tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought tibi toil tremble Vitæ voice W. M. HARDINGE wake weep whispered wild wind blows east wine wings τε
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Page 48 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 116 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 50 - It is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent tear to flow; It is not grief that bids me moan; It is that I am all alone. In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home; Or by the woodland pool to rest, When pale the star looks on its breast. Yet when the silent evening sighs, With hallow'd airs and symphonies, My spirit takes another tone, And sighs that it is all alone.
Page 46 - An poteris siccis mea fata reponere ocellis, ossaque nulla tuo nostra tenere sinu? Ah pereat, quicumque rates et vela paravit primus et invito gurgite fecit iter!
Page 82 - Tartarei prodigiosa canis. inpletura fuit sextae modo frigora brumae, 5 vixisset totidem ni minus ilia dies, inter tarn veteres ludat lasciva patronos et nomen blaeso garriat ore meum. mollia non rigidus caespes tegat ossa nee illi, terra, gravis fueris : non fuit ilia tibi.
Page 176 - 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...
Page 148 - She sang that extraordinary melody, so profoundly felt, so simple, so warm, yet so austere — passion irradiated by a mild but heavenly light. "0 danke nicht für diese Lieder, Mir ziemt es dankbar dir zu sein ; Du gabst sie mir, ich gebe wieder "Was jetzt und einst und ewig dein. Dein sind sie immer ja gewesen, Aus deiner lieben Augen Licht Hab ich sie treulich abgelesen ; Kennst du die eignen Lieder nicht?
Page 148 - DANKE nicht für diese Lieder, Mir ziemt es dankbar dir zu sein ; Du gabst sie mir, — ich gebe wieder Was jetzt und einst und ewig Dein. Dein sind sie alle ja gewesen, Aus Deiner lieben Augen Licht Hab' ich sie treulich abgelesen Kennst Du die eignen Lieder nicht ? WOLFGANG MULLEB.
Page 48 - Nonne fuit levius dominae pervincere mores (Quamvis dura, tamen rara puella fuit), Quam sic ignotis circumdata litora silvis Cernere et optatos quaerere Tyndaridas? Illic siqua meum sepelissent fata dolorem, Ultimus et posito staret amore lapis, Illa meo caros donasset funere crines, 10 15 20 2.
Page 61 - The brown hird in the branches Shall join my singing gay : " My darling is my darling, And shall be so for aye." When I am dead, my darling, And all my singing done, And you in life's lone twilight Still linger toiling on ; 62 Colltgt Jb mitts, Tou'll hear the brown bird singing, Above me, night and day : " His darling is his darling, And .shall be so for aye.