The Bridal Night; The First Poet; and Other PoemsBlackie, Fullarton, 1831 - 246 pagina's |
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... Song , Song , To the Sky , 191 193 194 195 Page Leonidas at Thermopylæ , The Skeleton of the Wreck.
... Song , Song , To the Sky , 191 193 194 195 Page Leonidas at Thermopylæ , The Skeleton of the Wreck.
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... songs in every bower , As if Death's foot had never crush'd a flower ; While music floats along the twilight deep , As nature saw bright visions in her sleep , And , like an infant through a glorious dream , B 2 Canto I 25 45.
... songs in every bower , As if Death's foot had never crush'd a flower ; While music floats along the twilight deep , As nature saw bright visions in her sleep , And , like an infant through a glorious dream , B 2 Canto I 25 45.
Pagina 8
... song , And dream'd of early Greece , the long , long day , Till , in her woe , his clouded soul grew gay Beneath those visions which , on memory's track , Brought the far glories of his country back , Shining in mournful beauty through ...
... song , And dream'd of early Greece , the long , long day , Till , in her woe , his clouded soul grew gay Beneath those visions which , on memory's track , Brought the far glories of his country back , Shining in mournful beauty through ...
Pagina 30
... song ; He saw a well - known shape - a well - known word Broke on his ear - no other sound he heard ; A sickening mist a moment dimm'd his eye , He saw a form , like sunburst , pass him by ; He saw a vision , and a gentle face Leaning ...
... song ; He saw a well - known shape - a well - known word Broke on his ear - no other sound he heard ; A sickening mist a moment dimm'd his eye , He saw a form , like sunburst , pass him by ; He saw a vision , and a gentle face Leaning ...
Pagina 32
... song ; and freemen still Might chant it on the desert heath at will ; The emir loved it , and a Grecian youth Could touch the harp , and even the despot soothe . The tyrant gave the signal , with a look Which told delay his spirit ill ...
... song ; and freemen still Might chant it on the desert heath at will ; The emir loved it , and a Grecian youth Could touch the harp , and even the despot soothe . The tyrant gave the signal , with a look Which told delay his spirit ill ...
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afar Alp Arslan amid Argyleshire Art thou athwart beauteous beauty beneath blast blue bosom breast breath breeze BRIDAL NIGHT bright brow calm Carthage Casquet clouds cold dark dead death deep desert despair dome dreadful dreams eagle earth emir's eternity fair falchion floating flowers forehead freedom's galley gather'd gazed giant GLASGOW glittering glorious glory grave grey groan harp hast heart heaven hills hour hung Lamech laughing light lone look look'd marble mighty moon moonshine morn mountain neath night o'er ocean orbs pale pass'd perish'd regicide riven roll roll Of thunder roll'd round savage seem'd shadow shining shroud silent silent hills sleep smile solitary solitude song soul spirit stars stood storm sublime sunbeam tempest thee thou dost thousand throne thunder Twas twilight wandering warrior waves weep wild wings wither'd yawning young Zariff
Populaire passages
Pagina x - Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the west ! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud ; thy steps are stately on thy hill. What dost thou behold in the plain? The stormy winds are laid. The murmur of the torrent comes from afar. Roaring waves climb the distant rock. The flies of evening are on their feeble wings : the hum of their course is on the field. What dost thou behold, fair light? But thou dost smile...
Pagina 231 - O YE WHO HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF ALP ARSLAN EXALTED TO THE HEAVENS, REPAIR TO MARU, AND YOU WILL BEHOLD IT BURIED IN THE DUST!
Pagina 225 - Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.
Pagina 231 - Joseph, who was instantly cut in pieces. The wound was mortal; and the Turkish prince bequeathed a dying admonition to the pride of kings. "In my youth," said Alp Arslan, "I was advised by a sage to humble myself before God; to distrust my own strength; and never to despise the most contemptible foe.
Pagina 231 - ... and the spoils of Anatolia, from Antioch to the Black Sea. The fairest part of Asia was subject to his laws: twelve hundred princes, or the sons of princes, stood before his throne; and two hundred thousand soldiers marched under his banners.
Pagina 132 - curses upon thy head, O Roman ; for thou only takest the privilege allowed by the laws of war : but may the gods of Carthage, and thou in concert with them, punish, according to his deserts, the false wretch, who has betrayed his country, his gods, his wife, his children !' Then directing herself to Asdrubal,
Pagina 80 - They are neither grey nor blackened ; like the bones of man, they seem to whiten under the sun of the desert. Here is no lichen, no moss, no rank grass or mantling ivy, no wall-flower or wild fig-tree to robe them, and to conceal their deformities, and bloom above them. No : — all is the nakedness of desolation...
Pagina 181 - A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind, and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: 'The spider has wove his web in the Imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.
Pagina 164 - O'er the glorious solitude, The billows crouch around her as her slaves. How exulting are her crew, Each sight to them is new, As they sweep along the blue Of the waves. Fair herald of the fleets That yet shall cross the wave, Till the earth with ocean meets One universal grave, What armaments shall follow thee in joy ! Linking each distant land With trade's harmonious band, Or bearing havoc's brand To destroy ! TO THE COMET.