English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: A Connected Representation of Poetic Art and Thought from 1798 to 1914George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster |
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... Proem of " Fires , " " The Ice , " " On Hampstead Heath , " " Prometheus " by W. W. Gibson ; " Nature's Questioning , " " The Darkling Thrush , " " George Meredith , " " The Wind Blew Words , " " The Statue of Liberty " and " A Thought ...
... Proem of " Fires , " " The Ice , " " On Hampstead Heath , " " Prometheus " by W. W. Gibson ; " Nature's Questioning , " " The Darkling Thrush , " " George Meredith , " " The Wind Blew Words , " " The Statue of Liberty " and " A Thought ...
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... ( proem ) From Thoroughfares : The Ice ) On Hampstead Heath Prometheus PAGE 635 636 636 636 636 636 . 637 638 638 639 640 640 640 640 641 641 641 642 · 642 645 645 646 646 647 647 647 648 648 • 649 649 649 · 649 650 RALPH HODGSON ( 1879 ...
... ( proem ) From Thoroughfares : The Ice ) On Hampstead Heath Prometheus PAGE 635 636 636 636 636 636 . 637 638 638 639 640 640 640 640 641 641 641 642 · 642 645 645 646 646 647 647 647 648 648 • 649 649 649 · 649 650 RALPH HODGSON ( 1879 ...
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... Proem of CANTO FOURTH ) The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes , And the wild cataract leaps in glory . Blow , bugle , blow : set the wild echoes flying ; Blow , bugle ...
... Proem of CANTO FOURTH ) The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes , And the wild cataract leaps in glory . Blow , bugle , blow : set the wild echoes flying ; Blow , bugle ...
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... Proem of CANTO SIXTH ) Home they brought her warrior dead : She nor swooned nor uttered cry . All her maidens , watching , said , " She must weep or she will die . " Then they praised him , soft and low , Called him worthy to be loved ...
... Proem of CANTO SIXTH ) Home they brought her warrior dead : She nor swooned nor uttered cry . All her maidens , watching , said , " She must weep or she will die . " Then they praised him , soft and low , Called him worthy to be loved ...
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... VOYAGE ( 1849 ) ( Proem of Canto First ) Over the great windy waters , and over the clear - crested summits , Unto the sun and the sky , and unto the perfecter earth , Come , let us go , to a land wherein 486 ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH.
... VOYAGE ( 1849 ) ( Proem of Canto First ) Over the great windy waters , and over the clear - crested summits , Unto the sun and the sky , and unto the perfecter earth , Come , let us go , to a land wherein 486 ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH.
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Page 159 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 61 - Thy soft response renewing— What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing?' Second Voice 'Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast; His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.
Page 207 - I sighed for thee; When light rode high, and the dew was gone. And noon lay heavy on flower and tree, And the weary Day turned to his rest, Lingering like an unloved guest, I sighed for thee. Thy brother Death came, and cried, Wouldst thou me? Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me? — And I replied, No, not thee!
Page 238 - I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! , That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love: — then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
Page 320 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon...
Page 90 - The bride kissed the goblet: the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — "Now tread we a measure!
Page 320 - ... the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O, sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river; Our echoes roll from soul to soul,...
Page 410 - And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 'twas not Her husband's presence only, called that spot Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps Fra Pandolf chanced to say "Her mantle laps "Over my Lady's wrist too much...
Page 364 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear ; She is coming, my life, my fate ; The red rose cries, ' She is near, she is near ; ' And the white rose weeps, ' She is late;' The larkspur listens, ' I hear, I hear ;' And the lily whispers,
Page 254 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.