Popular Poetry: a Selection of Pieces Old and New, Adapted for General UseBurns & Lambert, 1862 - 220 pages |
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... bless the day When we first delightfully so can say . April had beams amid her showers , Yet bare were her gardens , and cold her bowers ; And her frown would blight , and her smile betray- But now it is May ! it is May ! It is May ! it ...
... bless the day When we first delightfully so can say . April had beams amid her showers , Yet bare were her gardens , and cold her bowers ; And her frown would blight , and her smile betray- But now it is May ! it is May ! It is May ! it ...
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... blessing ; Thus we salute thee with our early song , And welcome thee , and wish thee long ! Milton . A SUMMER EVENING . Ir is a lovely eve . Meek Twilight now Begins her gentle but too short - lived reign . The evening star glows in ...
... blessing ; Thus we salute thee with our early song , And welcome thee , and wish thee long ! Milton . A SUMMER EVENING . Ir is a lovely eve . Meek Twilight now Begins her gentle but too short - lived reign . The evening star glows in ...
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... bless our Harvest - home ! Aged folks ! our hamlet's glory , Dames and grandsires , all must come ! Come and tell again the story Of the days long bygone ; come ! Ye who with life's ills have striven , And to whom now rest is given ...
... bless our Harvest - home ! Aged folks ! our hamlet's glory , Dames and grandsires , all must come ! Come and tell again the story Of the days long bygone ; come ! Ye who with life's ills have striven , And to whom now rest is given ...
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... bless The lowly children of distress , And the soul glowed with thankfulness . Mary Howitt WINTER WIND . THE wind it singeth loudly , The wind it singeth long , Of the far away blue mountain , And the storm - cloud in its song It ...
... bless The lowly children of distress , And the soul glowed with thankfulness . Mary Howitt WINTER WIND . THE wind it singeth loudly , The wind it singeth long , Of the far away blue mountain , And the storm - cloud in its song It ...
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... Come hang then up the mistletoe ( true olive branch ) , that peace May bless our paths with pleasantness , and make our joys increase ; WINTER . THOUGH now no more the musing ear Delights BOOK I. ] 23 THE SEASONS , ETC.
... Come hang then up the mistletoe ( true olive branch ) , that peace May bless our paths with pleasantness , and make our joys increase ; WINTER . THOUGH now no more the musing ear Delights BOOK I. ] 23 THE SEASONS , ETC.
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Amid Barry Cornwall Bay of Biscay beauty bells bird bless bloom blow bower boys breast breath breeze bright brow busy bee cheerful clouds cold cottage creeping everywhere dark dear deep delight dost doth dreary dwell earth Eliza Cook Erin go bragh eyes fair fairy flowers gale gentle glow golden grave green happy Hark hast hath hear heard heart heaven hour icicles icy tower land laugh lay a-thinking leaves light little tree lonely Longfellow loud lullaby Mary Howitt merrily merry morn mountain never night o'er peace poor rain reapers rest roar rocks round sail shine sigh silent sing skies sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul sound Southey Spring star storm stream summer sunset tree thee thou toil vale village weaver voice warm wave wayward wind weary whistling wild wind wing WINTER woods
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Page 182 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Page 182 - Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up in the steeple...
Page 61 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 72 - O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt. Among Arabian sands...
Page 85 - Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Page 181 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 106 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; .' It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. '' My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; 4.
Page 135 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 107 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 181 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ; — how it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...