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... Barmecide , the good Vizier 96 Jenny Wren fell sick 336 John Bull for pastime took a prance 242 John Gilpin was a citizen 138 King Lear once ruled in this land 267 Lady Alice was sitting in her bower window . Laid viii Index.
... Barmecide , the good Vizier 96 Jenny Wren fell sick 336 John Bull for pastime took a prance 242 John Gilpin was a citizen 138 King Lear once ruled in this land 267 Lady Alice was sitting in her bower window . Laid viii Index.
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... king . 223 The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold 328 The boy stood on the burning deck . 35 The cock is ... kings into the East . 27 There were three jovial Welshmen 337 There's that old hag Moll Brown , look , see , just past ...
... king . 223 The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold 328 The boy stood on the burning deck . 35 The cock is ... kings into the East . 27 There were three jovial Welshmen 337 There's that old hag Moll Brown , look , see , just past ...
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... King Henry ruled this land 228 When I remember'd again 289 When I was still a boy and mother's pride 127 When icicles hang by the wall . 22 When shall we three meet again 214 When the British warrior queen 180 Whither , ' midst falling ...
... King Henry ruled this land 228 When I remember'd again 289 When I was still a boy and mother's pride 127 When icicles hang by the wall . 22 When shall we three meet again 214 When the British warrior queen 180 Whither , ' midst falling ...
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... On the cold hill - side . I saw pale kings , and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; Who cried ' La belle Dame sans mercy Hath thee in thrall ! ' I saw their starved lips in the gloom With horrid Garland 21.
... On the cold hill - side . I saw pale kings , and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; Who cried ' La belle Dame sans mercy Hath thee in thrall ! ' I saw their starved lips in the gloom With horrid Garland 21.
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... kings into the East , Three kings both great and high , And they hae sworn a solemn oath John Barleycorn should die . They took a plough and ploughed him down , Put Garland 27.
... kings into the East , Three kings both great and high , And they hae sworn a solemn oath John Barleycorn should die . They took a plough and ploughed him down , Put Garland 27.
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Page 340 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 159 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?
Page 328 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown.
Page 67 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 64 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 261 - Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's watery beams...
Page 191 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 328 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail, And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances uplifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 58 - He holds him with his glittering eye — The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will.
Page 194 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.