Poems, Volume 2Edward Moxon, 1846 - 235 pages |
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... child and went her way Across the wheat , and sat upon a mound That was unsown , where many poppies grew . Far off the farmer came into the field And spied her not ; for none of all his men Dare tell him Dora waited with the child ; And ...
... child and went her way Across the wheat , and sat upon a mound That was unsown , where many poppies grew . Far off the farmer came into the field And spied her not ; for none of all his men Dare tell him Dora waited with the child ; And ...
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... child is that ? What are you doing here ? " So Dora cast her eyes upon the ground And answer'd softly , " This is William's child ! " “ And did I not , ” said Allan , “ did I not Forbid you , Dora ? " Dora said again , " Do with me as ...
... child is that ? What are you doing here ? " So Dora cast her eyes upon the ground And answer'd softly , " This is William's child ! " “ And did I not , ” said Allan , “ did I not Forbid you , Dora ? " Dora said again , " Do with me as ...
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... child , until he grows Of age to help us . " So the women kiss'd Each other , and set out , and reach'd the farm . The door was off the latch ; they peep'd , and saw The boy set up betwixt his grandsire's knees , Who thrust him in the ...
... child , until he grows Of age to help us . " So the women kiss'd Each other , and set out , and reach'd the farm . The door was off the latch ; they peep'd , and saw The boy set up betwixt his grandsire's knees , Who thrust him in the ...
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... children . " Then they clung about The old man's neck , and kiss'd him many times . And all the man was broken with remorse ; And all his love came back a hundredfold ; And for three hours he sobb'd o'er William's child , Thinking of ...
... children . " Then they clung about The old man's neck , and kiss'd him many times . And all the man was broken with remorse ; And all his love came back a hundredfold ; And for three hours he sobb'd o'er William's child , Thinking of ...
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... child : XXXIII . " But light as any wind that blows " So fleetly did she stir , The flower , she touch'd on , dipt and rose , And turn'd to look at her . XXXIV . " And here she came , and round me play'd , And sang to me the whole Of ...
... child : XXXIII . " But light as any wind that blows " So fleetly did she stir , The flower , she touch'd on , dipt and rose , And turn'd to look at her . XXXIV . " And here she came , and round me play'd , And sang to me the whole Of ...
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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.