Poems: Together with Brother Jacob and The Lifted VeilHarper & brothers, 1885 - 380 pages |
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... DEATH OF MOSES , " SWEET EVENINGS COME AND GO , LOVE , ” ARION , " O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE , " THE SPANISH GYPSY , PAGE 1 16 24 to 62 72 75 882 82 3 2 2 2 8 3 94 96 99 100 1 POEMS OF GEORGE ELIOT . THE LEGEND OF JUBAL.
... DEATH OF MOSES , " SWEET EVENINGS COME AND GO , LOVE , ” ARION , " O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE , " THE SPANISH GYPSY , PAGE 1 16 24 to 62 72 75 882 82 3 2 2 2 8 3 94 96 99 100 1 POEMS OF GEORGE ELIOT . THE LEGEND OF JUBAL.
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... Death Save him , the founder ; and it was his faith That here , away from harsh Jehovah's law , Man was immortal , since no halt or flaw In Cain's own frame betrayed six hundred years , But dark as pines that autumn never sears His ...
... Death Save him , the founder ; and it was his faith That here , away from harsh Jehovah's law , Man was immortal , since no halt or flaw In Cain's own frame betrayed six hundred years , But dark as pines that autumn never sears His ...
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... Death His footprint is , and He will come again " " And a new spirit from that hour came o'er The race of Cain : soft idlesse was no more , But even the sunshine had a heart of care , Smiling with hidden dread - a mother fair Who ...
... Death His footprint is , and He will come again " " And a new spirit from that hour came o'er The race of Cain : soft idlesse was no more , But even the sunshine had a heart of care , Smiling with hidden dread - a mother fair Who ...
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... death was tear - watered seed Of various life and action - shaping need . But chief the sons of Lamech felt the stings Of new ambition , and the force that springs In passion beating on the shores of fate . They said , " There comes a ...
... death was tear - watered seed Of various life and action - shaping need . But chief the sons of Lamech felt the stings Of new ambition , and the force that springs In passion beating on the shores of fate . They said , " There comes a ...
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... death . Jubal , too , watched the hammer , till his eyes , No longer following its fall or rise , Seemed glad with something that they could not see , But only listened to - some melody , Wherein dumb longings inward speech had found ...
... death . Jubal , too , watched the hammer , till his eyes , No longer following its fall or rise , Seemed glad with something that they could not see , But only listened to - some melody , Wherein dumb longings inward speech had found ...
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ARMGART arms aught Bedmár Bertha BLASCO blood breast breath brother Cloth dark David DAVID LIVINGSTONE dear death deeds divine DON SILVA dream Duke earth eyes face faith father fear FEDALMA feel felt Freely Freely's gaze Gilt Tops give glad GRAF Grimworth Gypsy Half Calf hand hate hear heart heaven HINDA hold hope IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS Jacob JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY JUAN Jubal king kiss knew Laertes leave light live look lord lute mind Moorish morning never noble nought o'er pain pale Palfrey passion pause PEPITA pity poor Queen R. C. Jebb R. W. Church round seemed sense SEPHARDO Sheep silent sing smile song soul Spanish speak strong sweet tell things thou thought trust turned Twas Uncut Edges voice vols WALPURGA watch words young ZARCA ZAROA Zincali
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Page 68 - CANNOT choose but think upon the time When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime, Because the one so near the other is. He was the elder and a little man Of forty inches, bound to show no dread, And I the girl that puppy-like now ran, Now lagged behind my brother's larger tread. I held him wise, and when he talked to me Of snakes and birds, and which God loved the best, I thought his knowledge marked the boundary Where men grew blind, though angels...
Page 99 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 99 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 99 - Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued, A vicious parent shaming still its child Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved ; Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air. And all our rarer, better, truer self, That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better...
Page 15 - For with thy coming Melody was come. This was thy lot, to feel, create, bestow, And that immeasurable life to know From which the fleshly self falls shrivelled, dead, A seed primeval that has forests bred. It is the glory of the heritage Thy life has left, that makes thy outcast age : Thy limbs shall lie dark, tombless on this sod, Because thou shinest in man's soul, a god, Who found and gave new passion and new joy That...
Page 70 - But sudden came the barge's pitch-black prow, Nearer and angrier came my brother's cry, And all my soul was quivering fear, when lo ! Upon the imperilled line, suspended high, A silver perch ! My guilt that won the prey, Now turned to merit, had a guerdon rich Of hugs and praises, and made merry play, Until my triumph reached its highest pitch When all at home were told the wondrous feat, And how the little sister had fished well. In secret, though my fortune tasted sweet, I wondered why this happiness...