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Pagina ix
... gone past , — " Then we glide among the housetops , And we track the murky waste , And we go about our business With a cheerful earnest haste ; " Not as though our food were plenty , Or no dangers we might meet ; But as though the work ...
... gone past , — " Then we glide among the housetops , And we track the murky waste , And we go about our business With a cheerful earnest haste ; " Not as though our food were plenty , Or no dangers we might meet ; But as though the work ...
Pagina xii
... gone on reading and thinking for herself in a desultory kind of way , coming very little in contact with what is called " society , " under the influence , as far as her inner life was concerned , of " pious stragglers from the Church ...
... gone on reading and thinking for herself in a desultory kind of way , coming very little in contact with what is called " society , " under the influence , as far as her inner life was concerned , of " pious stragglers from the Church ...
Pagina 7
... gone by . IV . Baal , we cry to thee from morning till even , — En the night that is endless we cry to thee , Baal the Tyrant . See to it , Baal the False , our allegiance is failing ; En the fire that consumeth , our nature is changing ...
... gone by . IV . Baal , we cry to thee from morning till even , — En the night that is endless we cry to thee , Baal the Tyrant . See to it , Baal the False , our allegiance is failing ; En the fire that consumeth , our nature is changing ...
Pagina 8
... whoso will , come freely ; The Spirit and Bride say Come , and let him that heareth say Come ; For the Star of the morning is risen , the night is over and gone . PASTORALS . A PASTORAL . LEIGHTON'S PICTURE - ROYAL ACADEMY 8 BAAL .
... whoso will , come freely ; The Spirit and Bride say Come , and let him that heareth say Come ; For the Star of the morning is risen , the night is over and gone . PASTORALS . A PASTORAL . LEIGHTON'S PICTURE - ROYAL ACADEMY 8 BAAL .
Pagina 12
... , perfumed air ; Lift not her tresses fair , Stir not the soul from its sleep ; Let the tune dream on : In the time when we wake to weep All will be gone . FINETTE ` INETTE was young , Finette was fair , 12 PASTORALS .
... , perfumed air ; Lift not her tresses fair , Stir not the soul from its sleep ; Let the tune dream on : In the time when we wake to weep All will be gone . FINETTE ` INETTE was young , Finette was fair , 12 PASTORALS .
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Agnes Agnus Dei Andromache angel Baal birds blessing blind breeze bright brother brow burning lake calm cheek child Christ in heaven coast-guard Cophetua crimson Crown 8vo darkness darling Dean of Canterbury dear dearest death deep despair dream dumb dying evermore evil eyes fair fairy faith Father fear feet flowers foolish song forward cast Gloriana Good-bye Gregory hand hath heart HENRY ALFORD Holy king kiss knew light lips live look Lord hear thee love doth love is dead Margaret moan mother mountain MOUNTAIN PASSES never night o'er once pain pray PRYNNES queen rain repent RITORNELLO shadow shining sing sleep smile softly song sorrow and sighing soul sound of sunshine strange sweet tears tell tender thine things thou hast thought twas VESUVIUS wait wandering weary weeping wind Wisdom King word
Populaire passages
Pagina 124 - That the strongest wander farthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain ? "I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now.
Pagina 288 - Not so, not so, no load of woe Need bring despairing frown : For while we bear it, we can bear, Past that, we lay it down.
Pagina 78 - The land is ours, the foe is ours, now rest, my men," he said. But while he spoke there came a band of foot-sore, panting men: " The latest prisoner, my lord, we took him in the glen, And left behind dead hostages that we would come again." The victor spoke : " Thou, Persian dog ! hast cost more lives than thine. That was thy will, and thou shouldst die full thrice, if I had mine. Dost know thy fate, thy just reward ? " The Persian bent his head, " I know both sides of victory, and only grieve,"...
Pagina 150 - I knew not when my life was good, And when there was a light upon my path, But turned my soul perversely to the dark — O Lord, I do repent.
Pagina 151 - Because Thou hast borne with me all this while, Hast smitten me with love until I weep, Hast called me as a mother calls her child — O Lord...
Pagina 79 - and while I live, I fight; So, see you to your victory, for 'tis undone this night ; Omar, the worthy, battle fair is but thy god-like right.
Pagina 67 - Heaven," your mother said softly. And Susie sighed "So far away!" — Tis nearer, Will, now to us all. It is strange how that fellow sleeps ! stranger still that his sleep should haunt me; If I could but command his face, to make sure of the lesser ill : I will crawl to his side and see, for what should there be to daunt me ? What there ? what there...