British Poems, from "Canterbury Tales" to "Recessional"Percy Adams Hutchinson |
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... shore , Scattred with flowres , through Thessaly they streeme , That they appeare , through lillies plenteous store , Like a brydes chamber flore . Two of those nymphes , meane while , two garlands bound Of freshest flowres which in ...
... shore , Scattred with flowres , through Thessaly they streeme , That they appeare , through lillies plenteous store , Like a brydes chamber flore . Two of those nymphes , meane while , two garlands bound Of freshest flowres which in ...
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... shore , And the firm soil win of the watery main , Increasing store with loss and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state , Or state itself confounded to decay , Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate— That Time will ...
... shore , And the firm soil win of the watery main , Increasing store with loss and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state , Or state itself confounded to decay , Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate— That Time will ...
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... shore ; But swear by Thyself that at my death Thy Son Shall shine as He shines now , and heretofore ; And , having done that , Thou hast done ; I fear no more . FORGET Ir poisonous minerals , and if that tree Whose 118 BRITISH POEMS A ...
... shore ; But swear by Thyself that at my death Thy Son Shall shine as He shines now , and heretofore ; And , having done that , Thou hast done ; I fear no more . FORGET Ir poisonous minerals , and if that tree Whose 118 BRITISH POEMS A ...
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... shore , O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing , And hatches plenty for th ' ensuing spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay , Like mothers which their infants overlay , Nor , with a sudden and impetuous wave , Like ...
... shore , O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing , And hatches plenty for th ' ensuing spring ; Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay , Like mothers which their infants overlay , Nor , with a sudden and impetuous wave , Like ...
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... shores , Visits the world , and in his flying towers , Brings home to us , and makes both Indies ours , Finds wealth where ' tis , bestows it where it wants , Cities in deserts , woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing , no ...
... shores , Visits the world , and in his flying towers , Brings home to us , and makes both Indies ours , Finds wealth where ' tis , bestows it where it wants , Cities in deserts , woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing , no ...
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Page 468 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer ! Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, " Strive and thrive ! " cry " Speed, — fight on, fare ever There as here...
Page 316 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 358 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — " The foe ! they come ! they come...
Page 385 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear : 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Page 445 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me ! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark ! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Page 101 - CXLVI Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, . . . these rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; Within be fed, without...
Page 331 - Around, around, flew each sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the skylark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden...
Page 298 - Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life...
Page 380 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 386 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing...