English & American Literature, Studies in Literary Criticism, Interpretation & History, Including Complete Masterpieces, in 10 Vol, Volume 4Smith & Reeve, 1903 |
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... birds To dying ears , when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square ; So sad , so strange , the days that are no more . Dear as remember'd kisses after death , And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips ...
... birds To dying ears , when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square ; So sad , so strange , the days that are no more . Dear as remember'd kisses after death , And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips ...
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... birds sang love on every spray — Till too , too soon , the flowing west Proclaimed the speed of wingéd day . Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes , And fondly brooks with miser care ; Time but th ' impression deeper makes , As ...
... birds sang love on every spray — Till too , too soon , the flowing west Proclaimed the speed of wingéd day . Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes , And fondly brooks with miser care ; Time but th ' impression deeper makes , As ...
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... birds ' , the ocean floods ' , The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's . I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore , Like light dissolved in star - showers , thrown ...
... birds ' , the ocean floods ' , The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's . I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown ; I see the waves upon the shore , Like light dissolved in star - showers , thrown ...
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... for its object . The subject may be a flower , a piece of pottery , a person , a bird or a nation , but some definite inciting object is necessary . The ode is subjective in that the poet expresses his own feel- ing 89 ODES.
... for its object . The subject may be a flower , a piece of pottery , a person , a bird or a nation , but some definite inciting object is necessary . The ode is subjective in that the poet expresses his own feel- ing 89 ODES.
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... Bird thou never wert , That from heaven , or near it , Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art . Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest , And ...
... Bird thou never wert , That from heaven , or near it , Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art . Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest , And ...
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accented admiration Allen-a-Dale anapestic angel Annabel Lee auld lang syne beauty bird blow Bob-o'-link breathe bright cæsura Chambered Nautilus charm chee cloud dark Death of Wellington deep doth dream earth Edgar Allan Poe emotion eyes fate Fausta feel feet flowers foot glory golden happy hath hear heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hill honor hymns iambic iambic pentameter inspiration JOHN DRYDEN JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER L'Allegro language light live Longfellow look Lord lyric melody meter moon never night o'er pain poem poet poetry prose purple quiet rhyme ROBERT BURNS Robert of Lincoln shade sing smile song sorrow soul sound Spink spirit stanza stars stream sung sweet syllable tears Tennyson thee thine things thou art thought verse voice wandering weary weep WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings woods words
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Page 63 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 94 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning « Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run ; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Page 177 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new. Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 128 - WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 62 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 97 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains ? What shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? ©de to a With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest; but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Page 69 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past; Thy image at our last embrace; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thick'ning, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene.
Page 26 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Page 52 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Page 179 - Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?