Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volume 7Jeannette Leonard Gilder Christian Herald, 1910 - Literature |
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... one some well - known sign doth call When war upon the city's gates doth fall , And scarce like one fresh risen out of sleep , He ' gan again his broken watch to keep . Then he turned round ; not for the sea - 10 WILLIAM MORRIS.
... one some well - known sign doth call When war upon the city's gates doth fall , And scarce like one fresh risen out of sleep , He ' gan again his broken watch to keep . Then he turned round ; not for the sea - 10 WILLIAM MORRIS.
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... falls , Such fruit my watchful damsels carefully Store up within the best loved of my walls , Ancient Damascus , where the lover calls Above my unseen head , and faint and light The rose - leaves flutter round me in the night . " And ...
... falls , Such fruit my watchful damsels carefully Store up within the best loved of my walls , Ancient Damascus , where the lover calls Above my unseen head , and faint and light The rose - leaves flutter round me in the night . " And ...
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... fall , indeed , and findeth this , A strong man's arms about her body twined , Nor inay she shudder now to fell his kiss , So wrapped she is in new unbroken bliss : Made happy that the foe the prize hath won , She weeps glad tears for ...
... fall , indeed , and findeth this , A strong man's arms about her body twined , Nor inay she shudder now to fell his kiss , So wrapped she is in new unbroken bliss : Made happy that the foe the prize hath won , She weeps glad tears for ...
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... fall back into my old morbid state of mind , when an unforeseen circumstance oc- curred that shaped my future for me . It is unnecessary here to state that my writings had crossed ine Channel , and that the English were quarreling among ...
... fall back into my old morbid state of mind , when an unforeseen circumstance oc- curred that shaped my future for me . It is unnecessary here to state that my writings had crossed ine Channel , and that the English were quarreling among ...
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... falling , take my wife to the country , and see what effect a good washing would have on her . We were in mid July , however , and the weather re- mained disgustingly fair . My apparent happiness and my constant habit of writing had ...
... falling , take my wife to the country , and see what effect a good washing would have on her . We were in mid July , however , and the weather re- mained disgustingly fair . My apparent happiness and my constant habit of writing had ...
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Page 315 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell: Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 302 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 80 - 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 271 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 81 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting — "Get thee back into the tempest and the night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! — quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 276 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he Is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
Page 296 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle. I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent ; That day he overcame the Nervii. — Look ! in this place, ran Cassius...
Page 312 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 5 - WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE GOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.
Page 315 - gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow; Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow : And yet, to times in hope5 my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.