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... round him lay . III . A band of chiefs ! -alas ! how few , Since but the fleeting of a day Had thinn'd it ; but this wreck was true And chivalrous : upon the clay Each sate him down , all sad and mute , Beside his monarch and his steed ...
... round him lay . III . A band of chiefs ! -alas ! how few , Since but the fleeting of a day Had thinn'd it ; but this wreck was true And chivalrous : upon the clay Each sate him down , all sad and mute , Beside his monarch and his steed ...
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... round his gates “ To gaze upon his splendid court , “ And dames , and chiefs , of princely port : " He was the Polish Solomon , " So sung his poets , all but one , " Who , being unpension'd , made a satire , " And boasted that he could ...
... round his gates “ To gaze upon his splendid court , “ And dames , and chiefs , of princely port : " He was the Polish Solomon , " So sung his poets , all but one , " Who , being unpension'd , made a satire , " And boasted that he could ...
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... round , " I seem'd to sink upon the ground ; " But err'd , for I was fastly bound . My heart turn'd sick , my brain grew sore , " And throbb'd awhile , then beat no more : " The skies spun like a mighty wheel ; " I saw the trees like ...
... round , " I seem'd to sink upon the ground ; " But err'd , for I was fastly bound . My heart turn'd sick , my brain grew sore , " And throbb'd awhile , then beat no more : " The skies spun like a mighty wheel ; " I saw the trees like ...
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... round and round , " Then plunging back with sudden bound , " Headed by one black mighty steed , " Who seem'd the patriarch of his breed , " Without a single speck or hair " Of white upon his shaggy hide ; 66 They snort - they foam ...
... round and round , " Then plunging back with sudden bound , " Headed by one black mighty steed , " Who seem'd the patriarch of his breed , " Without a single speck or hair " Of white upon his shaggy hide ; 66 They snort - they foam ...
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... round , " With just enough of life to see " My last of suns go down on me , " In hopeless certainty of mind , " That makes us feel at length resign'd “ To that which our foreboding years " Presents the worst and last of fears ...
... round , " With just enough of life to see " My last of suns go down on me , " In hopeless certainty of mind , " That makes us feel at length resign'd “ To that which our foreboding years " Presents the worst and last of fears ...
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Page 122 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 118 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 154 - That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 72 - It is not noon — the sunbow's rays ' still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Page 237 - As once I wept, if I could weep My tears might well be shed, To think I was not near to keep One vigil o'er thy bed; To gaze, how fondly ! on thy face, To fold thee in a faint embrace, Uphold thy drooping head; And show that love, however vain, Nor thou nor I can feel again.
Page 320 - They slept on the abyss, without a surge, — The waves were dead : the tides were in their grave: The moon, their mistress, had expired before : The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perished: Darkness had no need Of aid from them — she was the universe.
Page 235 - I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot; There flowers or weeds at will may grow, So I behold them not: It is enough for me to prove That what I loved, and long must love, Like common earth can rot; To me there needs no stone to tell, Tis nothing that I loved so well.
Page 62 - But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Page 130 - Away ; we know that tears are vain, That death nor heeds nor hears distress : Will this unteach us to complain ? Or make one mourner weep the less ? And thou — who tell'st me to forget, Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet.
Page 109 - Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...