The Fair Evanthe: A Poem in Five Cantos, and Other Poems

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Rivingtons, 1858 - 112 pagina's
 

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Pagina 1 - A furlong from the castle gate ? She had dreams all yesternight — Of her own betrothed knight; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.
Pagina 56 - Gabriel was not forgotten. Within her heart was his image. Clothed in the beauty of love and youth, as last she beheld him, Only more beautiful made by his deathlike silence and absence.
Pagina 108 - It shall be the basest of the kingdoms ; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
Pagina 37 - Like a picture it seemed of the primitive, pastoral ages, Fresh with the youth of the world, and recalling Rebecca and Isaac, Old and yet ever new, and simple and beautiful always, Love immortal and young in the endless succession of lovers.
Pagina 33 - I took that hand which lay so still — Alas ! my own was full as chill ; I had not strength to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive — A frantic feeling, when we know That what we love shall ne'er be so.
Pagina 98 - Or doffed thine own to let Queen Dido pass; Or held, by Solomon's own invitation, A torch at the great temple's dedication. I need not ask thee if that hand, when...
Pagina 63 - A Troubadour from foreign lands, To a lady bright came singing ; — " O ! lady bright, from thine own true knight A message I am bringing : He lies in the mountains near my first, He dares not come to thee ; The foe accurst would on him burst, He therefore sendeth me : " And he biddeth me tell thee to seek my next, Where he will surely meet thee; O ! be not vex'd, nor with fear perplex'd, For thine own true love shall greet thee.
Pagina 96 - Moses ; from the earliest periods of recorded time watering and fertilizing a narrow strip of land in the middle of a sandy desert, rolling its solitary way more than a thousand miles without receiving a single tributary stream; the river which the Egyptians worshipped and the Arabs loved and which, as the Mussulmans say, if Mohammed had tasted, " he would have prayed Heaven for terrestrial immortality, that he might continue to enjoy it for ever.
Pagina 102 - ... examination, but, creeping from one compartment into another, we clearly traced the extent of the grand hall, a noble apartment, supported by pillars, and beautifully sculptured in every direction, roof, walls, pillars, with hieroglyphics : — two-thirds, at least, of it are buried in the sand. Every wall, every column, in Egyptian architecture, was painted ; the colours often remain as brilliant as if they had only been laid on yesterday. While William had found his way down into the hall,...

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