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... father of the poet , Conde de Paredes and Maestre de Santiago , is well known in Spanish history and song . He died in 1476 ; according to Mariana , in the town of Uclés ; but , according to the poem of his son , in Ocaña . It was his ...
... father of the poet , Conde de Paredes and Maestre de Santiago , is well known in Spanish history and song . He died in 1476 ; according to Mariana , in the town of Uclés ; but , according to the poem of his son , in Ocaña . It was his ...
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... guilt and crime , maintain The scutcheon , that , without a stain , Their fathers bore . Wealth and the high estate of pride , With what untimely speed they glide . How soon depart ! Bid not the shadowy phantoms stay 12 TRANSLATIONS .
... guilt and crime , maintain The scutcheon , that , without a stain , Their fathers bore . Wealth and the high estate of pride , With what untimely speed they glide . How soon depart ! Bid not the shadowy phantoms stay 12 TRANSLATIONS .
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... father's breast embraces , Son and daughter ; and their faces Colorless grow utterly ; Whichever way Looks the fear - struck father gray , He beholds his children die . " Woe ! the blessed children both Takest thou in the joy of youth ...
... father's breast embraces , Son and daughter ; and their faces Colorless grow utterly ; Whichever way Looks the fear - struck father gray , He beholds his children die . " Woe ! the blessed children both Takest thou in the joy of youth ...
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... father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall , Loud sang the minstrels all , Chanting his glory ; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand , Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story . " While the brown ale he quaffed ...
... father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall , Loud sang the minstrels all , Chanting his glory ; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand , Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story . " While the brown ale he quaffed ...
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... father ! I see a gleaming light , O say , what may it be ? " But the father answered never a wo , d , A frozen corpse was he . Lashed to the helm , all stiff and stark , With his face turned to the skies , The lantern gleamed through ...
... father ! I see a gleaming light , O say , what may it be ? " But the father answered never a wo , d , A frozen corpse was he . Lashed to the helm , all stiff and stark , With his face turned to the skies , The lantern gleamed through ...
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Page 221 - The heights by great men reached and kept \ ¡ Were not attained by sudden flight, '. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 3 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 37 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Page 130 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 239 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet. That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Page 3 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 41 - There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior!
Page 130 - Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts,— she moves,— she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms!
Page 240 - It was two by the village clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown.
Page 94 - All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead; And when I ask, with throbs of pain, " Ah ! when shall they all meet again ? " As in the days long since gone by, The ancient timepiece makes reply, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...