Yale Book of American VerseThomas R. Lounsbury Yale University Press, 1912 - 570 pages |
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... lips the sparkling cup ; The light that o'er my eyebeam flashed , The power that bore my spirit up Above this bank - note world — is gone ; And Alnwick's but a market town , And this , alas ! its market day , And beasts and borderers ...
... lips the sparkling cup ; The light that o'er my eyebeam flashed , The power that bore my spirit up Above this bank - note world — is gone ; And Alnwick's but a market town , And this , alas ! its market day , And beasts and borderers ...
Page 18
... lip and eye , And cheek , and brown hair , bright and curling , Spoke nature's aristocracy ; And one , half groom , half seneschal , Who bowed me through court , bower , and hall , From donjon - keep to turret wall , For ten - and ...
... lip and eye , And cheek , and brown hair , bright and curling , Spoke nature's aristocracy ; And one , half groom , half seneschal , Who bowed me through court , bower , and hall , From donjon - keep to turret wall , For ten - and ...
Page 29
... lip in moonlit bower ; With look like patient Job's eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art , in sober truth , the veriest devil That e'er clinched fingers in a captive's hair ! That in thy breast there ...
... lip in moonlit bower ; With look like patient Job's eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art , in sober truth , the veriest devil That e'er clinched fingers in a captive's hair ! That in thy breast there ...
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Thomas R. Lounsbury. And underneath that face , like summer ocean's , Its lip as moveless , and its cheek as clear , Slumbers a whirlwind of the heart's emotions , Love , hatred , pride , hope , sorrow - all save fear . Love for thy land ...
Thomas R. Lounsbury. And underneath that face , like summer ocean's , Its lip as moveless , and its cheek as clear , Slumbers a whirlwind of the heart's emotions , Love , hatred , pride , hope , sorrow - all save fear . Love for thy land ...
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... lips the taunt shall die . The Conqueror's Grave Within this lowly grave a Conqueror lies , And yet the monument proclaims it not , Nor round the sleeper's name hath chisel wrought The emblems of a fame that never dies , - Ivy and ...
... lips the taunt shall die . The Conqueror's Grave Within this lowly grave a Conqueror lies , And yet the monument proclaims it not , Nor round the sleeper's name hath chisel wrought The emblems of a fame that never dies , - Ivy and ...
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