The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with NotesGinn, 1912 - 466 pages A popular anthology of English poetry, intended for high-school students and for the general reader. |
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... lady has just accused the lover of unkindness , and the taunt has stirred him to this spirited defense . In the opening paragraph of " Lycidas ” ( p . 73 ) the occasion of the poet's grief is stated more elab- orately ; so the patriotic ...
... lady has just accused the lover of unkindness , and the taunt has stirred him to this spirited defense . In the opening paragraph of " Lycidas ” ( p . 73 ) the occasion of the poet's grief is stated more elab- orately ; so the patriotic ...
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... old rhyme In praise of ladies dead , and lovely knights ; Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best Of hand , of foot , of lip , of eye , of brow , 20 25 I see their antique pen would have exprest Ev'n such 16 THE GOLDEN TREASURY.
... old rhyme In praise of ladies dead , and lovely knights ; Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best Of hand , of foot , of lip , of eye , of brow , 20 25 I see their antique pen would have exprest Ev'n such 16 THE GOLDEN TREASURY.
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... Lady weep , And Sorrow proud to be advanced so In those fair eyes where all perfections keep . Her face was full of woe , But such a woe ( believe me ) as wins more hearts Than Mirth can do with her enticing parts . Sorrow was there ...
... Lady weep , And Sorrow proud to be advanced so In those fair eyes where all perfections keep . Her face was full of woe , But such a woe ( believe me ) as wins more hearts Than Mirth can do with her enticing parts . Sorrow was there ...
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... ladies , cheap , choice , brave , and new , Good pennyworths , - but money cannot move : I keep a fair but for the Fair to view ; A beggar may be liberal of love . Though all my wares be trash , the heart is true- The heart is true . 1 ...
... ladies , cheap , choice , brave , and new , Good pennyworths , - but money cannot move : I keep a fair but for the Fair to view ; A beggar may be liberal of love . Though all my wares be trash , the heart is true- The heart is true . 1 ...
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... ; With gazing fed ; and Fancy dies In the cradle where it lies : Let us all ring Fancy's knell ; I'll begin it , Ding , dong , bell . Ding , dong , bell . W. Shakespeare 15 20 LXX A DILEMMA 1 Lady , when I behold the 44 THE GOLDEN TREASURY.
... ; With gazing fed ; and Fancy dies In the cradle where it lies : Let us all ring Fancy's knell ; I'll begin it , Ding , dong , bell . Ding , dong , bell . W. Shakespeare 15 20 LXX A DILEMMA 1 Lady , when I behold the 44 THE GOLDEN TREASURY.
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Page 214 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men...
Page 301 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 265 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 184 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke, How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and...
Page 74 - And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud ; For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill.
Page 25 - And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
Page 220 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright: I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Hath led me — who knows how? To thy chamber window, Sweet! The wandering airs they faint On the dark, the silent stream — The Champak odours fail Like sweet thoughts in a dream; The nightingale's complaint, It dies upon her heart; — As I must on thine, Oh, beloved as thou art!
Page 24 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 26 - gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow; And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Page 224 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be " Both law and impulse : and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain...