Holly berries: or, Double acrostics, from the poets, ed. by A.P.A.A. P. A. |
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... tree ? Below a circling fence its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear , Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves * * * appear ...
... tree ? Below a circling fence its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear , Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves * * * appear ...
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... trees on the plain Once more a king he strode . " " Ever witness for him Those twins of learning , that he rais'd in you Ipswich , and with him . " one of which fell 4 . " Who knows not The daughter of the DOUBLE ACROSTICS . 25.
... trees on the plain Once more a king he strode . " " Ever witness for him Those twins of learning , that he rais'd in you Ipswich , and with him . " one of which fell 4 . " Who knows not The daughter of the DOUBLE ACROSTICS . 25.
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... the first moonrise of midnight . " " He threw His length beneath the oak tree shade , With leafy couch already made A bed , nor comfortless , nor new To him . " Through 46 . ' s straits survey the steepy shore 76 HOLLY BERRIES .
... the first moonrise of midnight . " " He threw His length beneath the oak tree shade , With leafy couch already made A bed , nor comfortless , nor new To him . " Through 46 . ' s straits survey the steepy shore 76 HOLLY BERRIES .
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... tree Is trembling to his minstrelsy . " " The still sound Of falling waters , lulling as the song Of Indian bees at sunset , when they throng . Around the fragrant and deep In its blue blossoms hum themselves to sleep . " 66 4. O how ...
... tree Is trembling to his minstrelsy . " " The still sound Of falling waters , lulling as the song Of Indian bees at sunset , when they throng . Around the fragrant and deep In its blue blossoms hum themselves to sleep . " 66 4. O how ...
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... tree ( Without design to hurt the butter , Or any malice to the poultry ) He once or twice had penn'd a sonnet ; Yet hoped , that he might save his bacon Numbers would give their oaths upon it , He ne'er was for a conjurer taken ...
... tree ( Without design to hurt the butter , Or any malice to the poultry ) He once or twice had penn'd a sonnet ; Yet hoped , that he might save his bacon Numbers would give their oaths upon it , He ne'er was for a conjurer taken ...
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Page 11 - 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.
Page 19 - And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 208 - With terror of that blast Shall from the surface to the centre shake, When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread His throne.
Page 207 - And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun, And she forgot the blue above the trees, And she forgot the dells where waters run, And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze...
Page 138 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.
Page 89 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 46 - With half-dropt eyelids still, Beneath a heaven dark and holy, To watch the long bright river drawing slowly His waters from the purple hill— To hear the dewy echoes calling From cave to cave thro' the thick-twined vine— To watch the emerald-colour'd water falling Thro' many a wov'n acanthus-wreath divine!
Page 152 - But yonder comes the powerful king of day. Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.
Page 149 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft, responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Page 12 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend...