Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJ. Whetham & Son, 1841 - 807 pages |
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... head , Thus the pleas'd Septimius said : " My dearest Acme , if I be Once alive , and love not thee With a passion far above All that e'er was called love ; In a Libyan desert may I become some lion's prey ; Let him , Acme , let him ...
... head , Thus the pleas'd Septimius said : " My dearest Acme , if I be Once alive , and love not thee With a passion far above All that e'er was called love ; In a Libyan desert may I become some lion's prey ; Let him , Acme , let him ...
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... head , " Tis hope is the most hopeless thing of all . JOHN MILTON . JOHN MILTON , a poet of the. Say , from what golden quivers of the sky Do all thy winged arrows fly ? Swiftness and Power by birth are thine : From thy great sire they ...
... head , " Tis hope is the most hopeless thing of all . JOHN MILTON . JOHN MILTON , a poet of the. Say , from what golden quivers of the sky Do all thy winged arrows fly ? Swiftness and Power by birth are thine : From thy great sire they ...
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... head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers , and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite set free His half - regain'd Eurydice . These delights if thou canst give , Mirth , with thee I mean ...
... head From golden slumber on a bed Of heap'd Elysian flowers , and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite set free His half - regain'd Eurydice . These delights if thou canst give , Mirth , with thee I mean ...
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... head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , Where your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high , Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! 100 It ...
... head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , Where your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high , Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! 100 It ...
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... head . Beauty is nature's brag , and must be shown In courts , at feasts , and high solemnities , Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home , They had their name thence ; coarse complexions , And ...
... head . Beauty is nature's brag , and must be shown In courts , at feasts , and high solemnities , Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home , They had their name thence ; coarse complexions , And ...
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Page 140 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small...
Page 12 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 12 - Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way ; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 11 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine...
Page 356 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way ; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud topp'd hill, an humbler heaven...
Page 232 - The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 358 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Page 13 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew : Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 11 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides : — Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with...
Page 23 - Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning...