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... hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose , with its voluptuous swell , : - Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again , And all went merry as a marriage bell ; - But hush ! hark ; a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! * The ...
... hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose , with its voluptuous swell , : - Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again , And all went merry as a marriage bell ; - But hush ! hark ; a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! * The ...
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... heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier , And rous'd the vengeance ... hearts : and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated ; who could guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes ...
... heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier , And rous'd the vengeance ... hearts : and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated ; who could guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes ...
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... heart and mind , and I want skill , " says he , express the sympathy of love between the subjects and the sovereign . " Catholic and Protestant alike re- sponded to the call to repel the foreign invader . It was in the middle of May ...
... heart and mind , and I want skill , " says he , express the sympathy of love between the subjects and the sovereign . " Catholic and Protestant alike re- sponded to the call to repel the foreign invader . It was in the middle of May ...
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... hearts of Spain . It was about the lovely close of a warm summer's day , There came a gallant merchant - ship full sail to Ply- mouth Bay ; Her crew hath seen Castile's black fleet , beyond Aurigny's isle , At earliest twilight , on the ...
... hearts of Spain . It was about the lovely close of a warm summer's day , There came a gallant merchant - ship full sail to Ply- mouth Bay ; Her crew hath seen Castile's black fleet , beyond Aurigny's isle , At earliest twilight , on the ...
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... heart , and that was far away : He recked not of the life he lost nor prize , But where his rude hut by the Danube lay : There were his young barbarians all at play , There was their Dacian mother - he , their sire , Butchered to make a ...
... heart , and that was far away : He recked not of the life he lost nor prize , But where his rude hut by the Danube lay : There were his young barbarians all at play , There was their Dacian mother - he , their sire , Butchered to make a ...
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Page 11 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Page 150 - Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea!' 'O father! I see a gleaming light, O say, what may it be?' But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee.
Page 24 - And his droop'd head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 112 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Page 155 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 154 - She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — • ' Now tread we a measure !
Page 151 - The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe!
Page 139 - None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and think. I know not if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine...
Page 113 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 153 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.