Poems, Volume 2Edward Moxon, 1846 - 235 pages |
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... wonder of the hilt , How curiously and strangely chased , he smote His palms together , and he cried aloud . " And if indeed I cast the brand away , Surely a precious thing , one worthy note , Should thus be lost for ever from the earth ...
... wonder of the hilt , How curiously and strangely chased , he smote His palms together , and he cried aloud . " And if indeed I cast the brand away , Surely a precious thing , one worthy note , Should thus be lost for ever from the earth ...
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... wonder keeps the house . ” He nodded , but a moment afterwards He cried , " Look ! look ! " Before he ceased I turn'd , And , ere a star can wink , beheld her there . For up the porch there grew an Eastern rose , 24 THE GARDENER'S ...
... wonder keeps the house . ” He nodded , but a moment afterwards He cried , " Look ! look ! " Before he ceased I turn'd , And , ere a star can wink , beheld her there . For up the porch there grew an Eastern rose , 24 THE GARDENER'S ...
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... wonder , dead , become Mere highway dust ? or year by year alone . Sit brooding in the ruins of a life , Nightmare of youth , the spectre of himself ? If this were thus , if this , indeed , were all , Better the narrow brain , the stony ...
... wonder , dead , become Mere highway dust ? or year by year alone . Sit brooding in the ruins of a life , Nightmare of youth , the spectre of himself ? If this were thus , if this , indeed , were all , Better the narrow brain , the stony ...
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... for the promise that it closed : When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see ; Saw the Vision of the world , and all the wonder that would be . In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the Robin's LOCKSLEY HALL . 93.
... for the promise that it closed : When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see ; Saw the Vision of the world , and all the wonder that would be . In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the Robin's LOCKSLEY HALL . 93.
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... wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce , argosies of magic sails , Pilots of the purple twilight , dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting , and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the ...
... wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce , argosies of magic sails , Pilots of the purple twilight , dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting , and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the ...
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Page 95 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 105 - From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum, throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Page 94 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 104 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 6 - And in the moon athwart the place of tombs, Where lay the mighty bones of ancient men, Old knights, and over them the sea-wind sang Shrill, chill, with flakes of foam. He, stepping down By zigzag paths, and juts of pointed rock, Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur...
Page 108 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing-space ; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.
Page 13 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, ' Place me in the barge ;
Page 13 - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream - by these Three Queens with crowns of gold - and from them rose A cry that shivered to the tingling stars...
Page 93 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 100 - Comfort? comfort scorned of devils; this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof.