The Minstrel's Lay; and Other Poems ...1849 |
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... . And ever as the voices of the immortal Sirens have echoed through my solitude , hath Pain hidden its " diminished head ; " and dark Care hath evanished at their radiant approach , even as Night's gloomy shadow flies vi PREFACE .
... . And ever as the voices of the immortal Sirens have echoed through my solitude , hath Pain hidden its " diminished head ; " and dark Care hath evanished at their radiant approach , even as Night's gloomy shadow flies vi PREFACE .
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... voice replied ; " I would my friend thou knowedst where . " He look'd - a stranger stood beside Of gallant mien and stately air ; Not so , I ween , that stranger's soul , Defiled with passions rank and foul : Alas ! the world is all a ...
... voice replied ; " I would my friend thou knowedst where . " He look'd - a stranger stood beside Of gallant mien and stately air ; Not so , I ween , that stranger's soul , Defiled with passions rank and foul : Alas ! the world is all a ...
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... awhile that stranger base , And scann'd with curious eye , her face ; O'er which the tell - tale blushes danced , And hope and fear all wildly glanced . With quiv'ring voice again she spoke- " Well to thy 18 THE MINSTREL'S LAY ;
... awhile that stranger base , And scann'd with curious eye , her face ; O'er which the tell - tale blushes danced , And hope and fear all wildly glanced . With quiv'ring voice again she spoke- " Well to thy 18 THE MINSTREL'S LAY ;
Side 19
Vincent Pike. With quiv'ring voice again she spoke- " Well to thy cause such men may yoke ; The ruffian is the hangman's mate , But know , discourteous Knight , To win the prize thou com'st too late , The bird hath taken flight . A ...
Vincent Pike. With quiv'ring voice again she spoke- " Well to thy cause such men may yoke ; The ruffian is the hangman's mate , But know , discourteous Knight , To win the prize thou com'st too late , The bird hath taken flight . A ...
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... , The goddess mounts her throne , Sweet Fancy forms her arch , Truth dons her spotless zone . Attend ! attend ! hear Reason's voice * See note C. Ye children of the earth ; She proffers wisdom to THE FEAST OF REASON . 29.
... , The goddess mounts her throne , Sweet Fancy forms her arch , Truth dons her spotless zone . Attend ! attend ! hear Reason's voice * See note C. Ye children of the earth ; She proffers wisdom to THE FEAST OF REASON . 29.
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Amaldi's Ambition art young awhile Bandoli beauty behold beneath blood bosom bow'd bow'r brave bravo breast bright Bristol brother brow clouds cried dark deadly death deeds deep doth dwell E'en e'er ear A rising earth Edward IV ev'ry fair fair lady fairies Fairy Rings father fierce flood fond footsteps foul friar John gallant gazed Genius gentle glowing Guardini hapless Hark hast thou Hate hath heart heav'nly Heaven honor hour John Luttrell John Wright Kingswood Knight lady lord loudly maid mark'd mirth ne'er neath Nicolo o'er pain pass'd peace Percy Pixies poignard poison'd pour'd pow'r quoth rich rising murmur fell roll'd scene scorn seem'd silv'ry skies smile Somersetshire song soothing sought soul spear spirit spot stamp'd stood stranger stray'd strove sweet thee thine tranced ear tread turn'd Twas vale Venice voice wave ween wild wing wrathful young Love Zephyr's faintest sigh
Populære avsnitt
Side 83 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Side 105 - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
Side 6 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstacy the living lyre.
Side 105 - Thropes and bernes, shepenes and dairies, This maketh that ther ben no faeries : For ther as wont to walken was an elf, Ther walketh now the limitour himself, In undermeles and in morweninges, And sayth his Matines and his holy thinges, As he goth in his limitatioun.
Side 87 - Witness this present prison, whither fate Could bear me, and the joys I quit. Thou caua'dst the guilty to be loosed From bands wherein are innocents enclosed, Causing the guiltless to be strait reserved, And freeing those that death had well deserved, But by her envy can be nothing wrought, So God...
Side 105 - Who live as changelings ever since, For love of your demaines. At morning and at evening both You merry were and glad, So little care of sleepe and sloth, These prettie ladies had.
Side 105 - IN olde dayes of the king Artour, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, All was this lond fulfilled of faerie; The Elf-quene, with hire joly compagnie, Danced ful oft in many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede; I speke of many hundred yeres ago; But now can no man see non elves mo...
Side 109 - every one who employs me shall always find me punctual ; for I am a man of honour, sir, and to convince you I would not forfeit it, the gentleman whom I have just sent home by your own order, gave me fifty pistoles to make an end of you. Now I, although he is dead and cannot call me to...
Side 108 - ... of mountains. The road, however, was bad, the horses worse, and the bare-footed post-boys shouted in vain as we ascended higher and higher. At last we entered a thickly wooded glen, and, after following it for half-an-hour, we reached the monastery of Tismana, the most beautiful on the Carpathians. The date of its foundation and the name of its founder are unknown, as it is the most ancient establishment in Wallachia ; it was repaired in the year 1366, by Radu Negru, whose Roman Catholic princess...
Side 109 - That it was not an action any person of honour would be guilty of, and that it was as much beneath a bravo to turn poisoner, as it would be for a...