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... Flowers of the Forest .. 306 335 JOHN MAYNE ( 1759-1836 ) The Solitary Reaper .. 336 Logan Braes .... Yarrow Unvisited ... 336 307 ADAM SKIRVING ( 1719-1803 ) She was a phantom of delight .. 337 I wandered lonely as a cloud . Johnnie ...
... Flowers of the Forest .. 306 335 JOHN MAYNE ( 1759-1836 ) The Solitary Reaper .. 336 Logan Braes .... Yarrow Unvisited ... 336 307 ADAM SKIRVING ( 1719-1803 ) She was a phantom of delight .. 337 I wandered lonely as a cloud . Johnnie ...
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... flowers that deck their fields are withered blossoms that they have picked up and painted and tied to the bare and lifeless stalks . Gaudy they are , but odorless , lifeless , and obviously painted . DUNBAR'S greatest poem is The Golden ...
... flowers that deck their fields are withered blossoms that they have picked up and painted and tied to the bare and lifeless stalks . Gaudy they are , but odorless , lifeless , and obviously painted . DUNBAR'S greatest poem is The Golden ...
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... flowers 8 brains I a greater wonder daunted my judgment pleasant lake 13 gleaming many a royal gleam arose from it 15 child 16 grace gleam- ing white was her attire 18 before 19 that one has re- fined 20 so shone that beautiful one ...
... flowers 8 brains I a greater wonder daunted my judgment pleasant lake 13 gleaming many a royal gleam arose from it 15 child 16 grace gleam- ing white was her attire 18 before 19 that one has re- fined 20 so shone that beautiful one ...
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... flowers 18 goldsmith's work 19 hung 20 flame 22 cloak 23 before 24 little 25 half loose 26 goodliness 3 In hir was youth , beautee , with humble aport , ' Bountee , richesse , and wommanly facture , God better wote than my pen can ...
... flowers 18 goldsmith's work 19 hung 20 flame 22 cloak 23 before 24 little 25 half loose 26 goodliness 3 In hir was youth , beautee , with humble aport , ' Bountee , richesse , and wommanly facture , God better wote than my pen can ...
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... flowers ' bale : And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays , and yet my sorrow springs ! COMPLAINT OF A LOVER REBUKED Love , that liveth and reigneth in my thought , That built his seat within my captive breast , Clad ...
... flowers ' bale : And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays , and yet my sorrow springs ! COMPLAINT OF A LOVER REBUKED Love , that liveth and reigneth in my thought , That built his seat within my captive breast , Clad ...
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Page 382 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — »The foe! They come! they come!« And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering...
Page 385 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, •To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll!
Page 459 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths 60 Of all the western stars, until I die.
Page 476 - ... rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his...
Page 385 - Thy waters washed them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play; Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 408 - He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 434 - Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Page 340 - Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day, a Master o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not to be put by...
Page 356 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day. We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink: Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
Page 121 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his...