Famous Poems Explained: Helps to Reading with the Understanding, with Biographical Notes of the Authors RepresentedNoble and Noble, 1909 - 237 pages |
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... shore , till in a rift over the fort he dimly dis- cerned the flag still proudly defiant . In that supreme moment was written The Star - Spangled Banner . " The song was printed in broadsheet form in the office of the Baltimore American ...
... shore , till in a rift over the fort he dimly dis- cerned the flag still proudly defiant . In that supreme moment was written The Star - Spangled Banner . " The song was printed in broadsheet form in the office of the Baltimore American ...
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... shore dimly seen through the mist of the deep , Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes , What is that which the breeze , o'er the towering steep , As it fitfully blows , now conceals , now discloses ? Now it catches the ...
... shore dimly seen through the mist of the deep , Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes , What is that which the breeze , o'er the towering steep , As it fitfully blows , now conceals , now discloses ? Now it catches the ...
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... And waves were white below , No more shall feel the victor's tread , Or know the conquered knee ; - The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! 3 O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath OLD IRONSIDES 69.
... And waves were white below , No more shall feel the victor's tread , Or know the conquered knee ; - The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! 3 O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath OLD IRONSIDES 69.
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... shore , and The eagle of the sea . Harpies here means plunderers . The last four lines present a particularly fine picture , which the reader should re - create in his imagination . THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM It is Southey here gives us a ...
... shore , and The eagle of the sea . Harpies here means plunderers . The last four lines present a particularly fine picture , which the reader should re - create in his imagination . THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM It is Southey here gives us a ...
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... the land appeared two leagues off . · Two COLUMBUS 1 Behind him lay the gray Azores , Behind the Gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores , Before him only shoreless seas . The good mate said : " Now must we pray COLUMBUS 77.
... the land appeared two leagues off . · Two COLUMBUS 1 Behind him lay the gray Azores , Behind the Gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores , Before him only shoreless seas . The good mate said : " Now must we pray COLUMBUS 77.
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Page 94 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 195 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch!
Page 193 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Page 197 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 118 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is...
Page 112 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Page 204 - Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top looking down; The heifer that lows in the upland farm...
Page 67 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 112 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Page 213 - Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And tempted her out of her gloom, And conquered her scruples and gloom; And we passed to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb, By the door of a legended tomb; And I said— "What is written, sweet sister, On the door of this legended tomb?" She replied— "Ulalume— Ulalume— 'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!