Popular Poetic Pearls, and Biographies of PoetsElliott & Beezley, 1887 - 384 pagina's |
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Pagina 108
... wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament ; No cloud above , no earth below , - A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes : strange domes and towers Rose up where sty and corn - crib stood , Or ...
... wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament ; No cloud above , no earth below , - A universe of sky and snow ! The old familiar sights of ours Took marvelous shapes : strange domes and towers Rose up where sty and corn - crib stood , Or ...
Pagina 174
... Wonder what they mean ? Faith , he's got the Knicker- Bocker Magazine ! Stranger on the left , Closing up his peepers Now he snores amain , Like the seven sleepers ; At his feet a volume Gives the explanation , How the man grew stupid ...
... Wonder what they mean ? Faith , he's got the Knicker- Bocker Magazine ! Stranger on the left , Closing up his peepers Now he snores amain , Like the seven sleepers ; At his feet a volume Gives the explanation , How the man grew stupid ...
Pagina 195
... wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so good ; Thy father was transfused into thy blood ; So wert thou born into a tuneful strain , An early , rich , and inexhausted vein . But if thy pre - existing soul Was formed ...
... wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so good ; Thy father was transfused into thy blood ; So wert thou born into a tuneful strain , An early , rich , and inexhausted vein . But if thy pre - existing soul Was formed ...
Pagina 198
... wonder I've not lost the respect ( Here's to you , sir ! ) even of my dog . But he sticks by through thick and thin ; And this old coat , with its empty pockets And rags that smell of tobacco and gin , He'll follow while he has eyes in ...
... wonder I've not lost the respect ( Here's to you , sir ! ) even of my dog . But he sticks by through thick and thin ; And this old coat , with its empty pockets And rags that smell of tobacco and gin , He'll follow while he has eyes in ...
Pagina 200
... wonder , has he such a lumpish , leaden , Aching thing in place of a heart ? He is sad sometimes , and would weep if he could , No doubt , remembering things that were , - A virtuous kennel , with plenty of food , And himself a sober ...
... wonder , has he such a lumpish , leaden , Aching thing in place of a heart ? He is sad sometimes , and would weep if he could , No doubt , remembering things that were , - A virtuous kennel , with plenty of food , And himself a sober ...
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Popular Poetic Pearls: And Biographies of Poets (Classic Reprint) Frank Mcalpine Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2018 |
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ALFRED TENNYSON angels beauty bird blessed born breast breath bright child cloud Dacotahs dark dead dear death deep died dream earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes face fair fame father feet friends gentle golden grave gray grew hair hand happy hath heard heart heaven Hiawatha hill hope hour JOHN DRYDEN JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER JOSEPH ADDISON JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND kiss labor Laughing Water life's light lips literary little Meg living look maiden Minnehaha morning mother ne'er never Nevermore night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once peace Phoebe Cary poems poet poor rest Ring round SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE shadow shine silent sleep smiling song sorrow soul stood sweet tears tell tender thee There's thou thought toil Twas voice weary whispered wife wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wonder Work-work-work young youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 60 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Pagina 46 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Pagina 102 - 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.
Pagina 99 - 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.
Pagina 250 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pagina 101 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Pagina 150 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme,— How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He who, bore in heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head...
Pagina 151 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Pagina 20 - And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Pagina 45 - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. 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.