Selected Lyrics from Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and BurnsCharles Swain Thomas Houghton Mifflin, 1913 - 89 pages |
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Charles Swain Thomas. : ROBERT BURNS 1759-1796 THE thirty - seven and a half years that intervened be- tween January 25 , 1759 , - the date of Burns's birth , - and July 21 , 1796 , - the date of the poet's death , - was a period full of ...
Charles Swain Thomas. : ROBERT BURNS 1759-1796 THE thirty - seven and a half years that intervened be- tween January 25 , 1759 , - the date of Burns's birth , - and July 21 , 1796 , - the date of the poet's death , - was a period full of ...
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... Burns's literary ambitions developed early . In his nine- teenth year he planned a tragedy , but it was never finished . By his twenty - second year he had written Winter , a Dirge , Death of Poor Mailie , John Barleycorn , and sev ...
... Burns's literary ambitions developed early . In his nine- teenth year he planned a tragedy , but it was never finished . By his twenty - second year he had written Winter , a Dirge , Death of Poor Mailie , John Barleycorn , and sev ...
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... Burns's brother Gilbert writes that this poem was com- posed while the author was holding the plow . John Blane , a peasant lad , was at the time riding one of the horses as plow - boy . In later years he recalled the incident and said ...
... Burns's brother Gilbert writes that this poem was com- posed while the author was holding the plow . John Blane , a peasant lad , was at the time riding one of the horses as plow - boy . In later years he recalled the incident and said ...
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... Burns's song . The avowal of constancy so passionately phrased here was not one of Burns's virtues . The easy abandon with which he turned from one love to another was responsible alike for much sorrow and much joy in his life ...
... Burns's song . The avowal of constancy so passionately phrased here was not one of Burns's virtues . The easy abandon with which he turned from one love to another was responsible alike for much sorrow and much joy in his life ...
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... Burns woven more of beauty , pathos , and tenderness . The reader is surprised , on examination , to note the ... Burns's temperament and behavior was to have one's nature sorely tried . 1 airts : directions . 2 like the West : At ...
... Burns woven more of beauty , pathos , and tenderness . The reader is surprised , on examination , to note the ... Burns's temperament and behavior was to have one's nature sorely tried . 1 airts : directions . 2 like the West : At ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Antistrophe apodosis bard beneath blaw bonnie Doon bonnie Lesley brave breathe Burns Burns's Cecilia's Day Cephisus charm churchyard Collins Cowper Cromwell dear death Doon Dryden Duncan E'en Edward Edward III Elegy Epode Eton eyes fair Fancy fate Feast flowers goddess golden Gray Gray's harmony hear heart Heaven heavenly heroic couplet Highland Mary Horace Walpole hour Inverness Jean John Anderson JOHN DRYDEN Jove Kempenfelt King lassie LINE lived Luve lyre LYRICS maid Mary Morison melancholy mind Muse ne'er numbers Nymph o'er pain passion phrase Pindar pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise purple scene shade sigh'd simplicity sing smile soft Song for St soothe sorrow soul sound Spring stanza Stoke Pogis Strophe sweet taste tear thee theme thou thought thro Timotheus trembling Unwin vale verse voice wild WILLIAM COWPER winds wing wrote
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Page 64 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Page 37 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 64 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi...
Page 37 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 13 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Page 24 - Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
Page 48 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his...
Page 38 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 7 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 17 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.