Twilight Hours: A Legacy of VerseStrahan, 1868 - 300 pagina's |
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Pagina xvi
... knew her will remember with what a sudden gleam of wit , or abrupt opening of inner depths of thought , her con- versation was by turns solemnised and illumined . quote from a short memorial paper in " Good Words " for the present year ...
... knew her will remember with what a sudden gleam of wit , or abrupt opening of inner depths of thought , her con- versation was by turns solemnised and illumined . quote from a short memorial paper in " Good Words " for the present year ...
Pagina xviii
... knew her can understand this now , and understand too , how in her poems , the discipline of pain and the pleasantness of death hold such a place . The in- visible hand stretched forth from the darkness , say rather from the excess of ...
... knew her can understand this now , and understand too , how in her poems , the discipline of pain and the pleasantness of death hold such a place . The in- visible hand stretched forth from the darkness , say rather from the excess of ...
Pagina xxxiii
... knew her , if I have led some who did not know her to sympathise and love . There has been , I need not say , a sorrowful plea- santness in reviving these recollections of a life that passed away before it had attained , as we judge ...
... knew her , if I have led some who did not know her to sympathise and love . There has been , I need not say , a sorrowful plea- santness in reviving these recollections of a life that passed away before it had attained , as we judge ...
Pagina 7
... knew not me in the time 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 ...
... knew not me in the time 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 ...
Pagina 43
... knew , as children know such things , That not my life , nor love , nor deathless soul , Could weigh , with her , against a hair of his ; Knew it , and loved her utterly the while . Mark turned and left us : Agnes watched him go , Like ...
... knew , as children know such things , That not my life , nor love , nor deathless soul , Could weigh , with her , against a hair of his ; Knew it , and loved her utterly the while . Mark turned and left us : Agnes watched him go , Like ...
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...