New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British poets and poetical translators, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 3 |
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... woods , To Sleep . To the River Derwent To the Venus Urania Love and Age Love at Sale To Miss Sarah Fowler . On a Sermon against Glory The Man of Taste To Stupidity To Folly To a Fountain Home . To To Tranquillity To Contemplation To ...
... woods , To Sleep . To the River Derwent To the Venus Urania Love and Age Love at Sale To Miss Sarah Fowler . On a Sermon against Glory The Man of Taste To Stupidity To Folly To a Fountain Home . To To Tranquillity To Contemplation To ...
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... woods that listen to the night - bird's singing , Midway the smooth and perilous steep reclined ; Save when your own imperious branches swinging Have made a solemn music of the wind ! Where , like a man beloved of God , Through glooms ...
... woods that listen to the night - bird's singing , Midway the smooth and perilous steep reclined ; Save when your own imperious branches swinging Have made a solemn music of the wind ! Where , like a man beloved of God , Through glooms ...
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... wood Motezume's magicians stood : Tlcàtlepùca's horrid form , God of famine , plague , and storm , High on magic stones they raised ; Magic fires before him blazed ; Round the lurid flames they drew , Flames whence streams of sulphur ...
... wood Motezume's magicians stood : Tlcàtlepùca's horrid form , God of famine , plague , and storm , High on magic stones they raised ; Magic fires before him blazed ; Round the lurid flames they drew , Flames whence streams of sulphur ...
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... woods with dusky red ; Vast the Idol's stature grew , Look'd his face of ghastly hue , Frowning rage , and frowning hate , Angry at his nation's fate ; Fierce his fiery eyes he roll'd , Thus his tongue the future told ; Cortes ...
... woods with dusky red ; Vast the Idol's stature grew , Look'd his face of ghastly hue , Frowning rage , and frowning hate , Angry at his nation's fate ; Fierce his fiery eyes he roll'd , Thus his tongue the future told ; Cortes ...
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... woods , And jovial roundelays * of nymphs and swains ; In thy full energy and rich array , Delight of earth and heaven , O blessed May ! From heaven descend to earth : on earth vouch- safe to stay . She comes ! -a silken camus ...
... woods , And jovial roundelays * of nymphs and swains ; In thy full energy and rich array , Delight of earth and heaven , O blessed May ! From heaven descend to earth : on earth vouch- safe to stay . She comes ! -a silken camus ...
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Page 315 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when...
Page 313 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 314 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 251 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 330 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 313 - ... no help, come let us kiss and part, — Nay I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath, When his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, —...
Page 326 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 24 - 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 tempests blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 327 - Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Page 316 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.