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... light , Lifeless , but life - like , and awful to sight ; [ down As they seem , through the dimness , about to come From the shadowy wall where their images frown ; Fearfully flitting to and fro , As the gusts on the tapestry come and ...
... light , Lifeless , but life - like , and awful to sight ; [ down As they seem , through the dimness , about to come From the shadowy wall where their images frown ; Fearfully flitting to and fro , As the gusts on the tapestry come and ...
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... light and looks of love ; And placed upon that holy shrine To fix our thoughts on things divine , When pictured there , we kneeling see Her , and the boy - God on her knee , Smiling sweetly on each prayer To beaven , as if to waft it ...
... light and looks of love ; And placed upon that holy shrine To fix our thoughts on things divine , When pictured there , we kneeling see Her , and the boy - God on her knee , Smiling sweetly on each prayer To beaven , as if to waft it ...
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... light through a gloomy grate ; But War had enter'd their dark caves , And stored along the vaulted graves Her sulphurous treasures , thickly spread In inasses by the fleshless dead : Here , throughout the siege , had been The Christians ...
... light through a gloomy grate ; But War had enter'd their dark caves , And stored along the vaulted graves Her sulphurous treasures , thickly spread In inasses by the fleshless dead : Here , throughout the siege , had been The Christians ...
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... light winds pass O'er lakes , to ruffle , not destroy their glass , Whose depths unsearch'd , and fountains from the hill , Restore their surface , in itself so still , Until the earthquake tear the Naiad's cave , Root up the spring ...
... light winds pass O'er lakes , to ruffle , not destroy their glass , Whose depths unsearch'd , and fountains from the hill , Restore their surface , in itself so still , Until the earthquake tear the Naiad's cave , Root up the spring ...
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... , Shot through the surf , like rein - deer through the snow , Swift - gliding o'er the breaker's whitening edge , Light as a Nereid in her ocean sledge , 1 And gazed and wondered at the giant hulk , Which 58 THE ISLAND .
... , Shot through the surf , like rein - deer through the snow , Swift - gliding o'er the breaker's whitening edge , Light as a Nereid in her ocean sledge , 1 And gazed and wondered at the giant hulk , Which 58 THE ISLAND .
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Page 216 - THERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee ; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me : When, as if its sound were causing The charmed ocean's pausing, The waves lie still and gleaming, And the lull'd winds seem dreaming, And the midnight moon is weaving Her bright chain o'er the deep ; Whose breast is gently heaving, As an infant's asleep : So the spirit bows before thee, To listen and adore thee ; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean.
Page 235 - I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 233 - Though the day of my destiny's over, And the star of my fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find; Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee.
Page 237 - The World was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay.
Page 245 - He fed on poisons, and they had no power, But were a kind of nutriment; he lived Through that which had been death to many men, And made him friends of mountains: with the stars And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues; and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries; To him the book of Night was open'd wide, And voices from the deep abyss reveal'd A marvel and a secret— Be it so.
Page 242 - That he was wretched, but she saw not all. He rose, and with a cold and gentle grasp He took her hand ; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, and then it faded, as it came, ; He...
Page 109 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 217 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 218 - Yet, oh yet, thyself deceive not; Love may sink by slow decay, But by sudden wrench, believe not Hearts can thus be torn away: Still thine own its life retaineth, Still must mine, though bleeding, beat; And the undying thought which paineth Is — that we no more may meet.
Page 243 - I saw him stand Before an Altar— with a gentle bride; Her face was fair, but was not that which made The Starlight of his Boyhood;— as he stood Even at the Altar, o'er his brow there came The self-same aspect, and the quivering shock That in the antique Oratory shook His bosom in its solitude; and then— As in that hour— a moment o'er his...