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... Flowers , - · - 272 Elegy Written in a Country Church- The Bonfire of Craig - Gowan , - - 288 · The Charge of the Light Brigade , - 296 | Paradise Lost - Book IV . ( 735 lines ) , 392 Yard , - - 389 A Ship Sinking , PROSAIC POETRY ...
... Flowers , - · - 272 Elegy Written in a Country Church- The Bonfire of Craig - Gowan , - - 288 · The Charge of the Light Brigade , - 296 | Paradise Lost - Book IV . ( 735 lines ) , 392 Yard , - - 389 A Ship Sinking , PROSAIC POETRY ...
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... flowers of every gàrden , and in the waters of every rívulet , there are worlds teeming with lífe , and as númberless ' as are the glories of the fìrma- ment . The one has suggested to mel that beyond and abòve all that is visible to ...
... flowers of every gàrden , and in the waters of every rívulet , there are worlds teeming with lífe , and as númberless ' as are the glories of the fìrma- ment . The one has suggested to mel that beyond and abòve all that is visible to ...
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... flower the Summer wreathes , Is born ' beneath that kindling eye : Where'er we turn , Thy glories shìne , And all things bright and fair are Thìne ! MOORE . THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL . [ ALEXANDER POPE The Glory of God in Creation,
... flower the Summer wreathes , Is born ' beneath that kindling eye : Where'er we turn , Thy glories shìne , And all things bright and fair are Thìne ! MOORE . THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL . [ ALEXANDER POPE The Glory of God in Creation,
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... flower - pots , brown earthenware vessels for domestic purposes , and many other articles . The colours of this substance , which usually becomes red in the fire , are due to small quantities of iron contained in it . Those clays ...
... flower - pots , brown earthenware vessels for domestic purposes , and many other articles . The colours of this substance , which usually becomes red in the fire , are due to small quantities of iron contained in it . Those clays ...
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... flower , the leaf of the tree ; In the sun of the noonday , the star of the night ; In the storm - cloud of darkness , the rainbow of light ; In the waves of the ocean , the furrows of land ; In the mountain of granite , the atom of ...
... flower , the leaf of the tree ; In the sun of the noonday , the star of the night ; In the storm - cloud of darkness , the rainbow of light ; In the waves of the ocean , the furrows of land ; In the mountain of granite , the atom of ...
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Page 50 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave !— For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow, While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 55 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 332 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 399 - ... livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 53 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 235 - Yet once, it is a little while, And I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 340 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks : They have a king who buys and sells ; In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells : But Turkish force and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Page 175 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer...
Page 292 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 161 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.