Favorite PoemsJames R. Osgood, 1877 - 96 pages |
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Page 11
... light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky , To faint in the light of the sun she loves , To faint in his light , and to die . All night have the roses heard The flute , violin , bassoon ; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd ...
... light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky , To faint in the light of the sun she loves , To faint in his light , and to die . All night have the roses heard The flute , violin , bassoon ; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd ...
Page 19
... light shakes across 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 ...
... light shakes across 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 ...
Page 22
... light Upon her lattice , I would pipe and trill , And cheep and twitter twenty million loves . O were I thou that she might take me in , And lay me on her bosom , and her heart Would rock the snowy cradle till I died . Why lingereth she ...
... light Upon her lattice , I would pipe and trill , And cheep and twitter twenty million loves . O were I thou that she might take me in , And lay me on her bosom , and her heart Would rock the snowy cradle till I died . Why lingereth she ...
Page 26
... light had we : for that we do repent ; And learning this , the bridegroom will relent . Too late , too late ! ye cannot enter now . No light so late ! and dark and chill the night ; O let us in , that we may find the light ! Too late ...
... light had we : for that we do repent ; And learning this , the bridegroom will relent . Too late , too late ! ye cannot enter now . No light so late ! and dark and chill the night ; O let us in , that we may find the light ! Too late ...
Page 27
... light ; The year is dying in the night ; Ring out , wild bells , and let him die . Ring out the old , ring in the new , Ring , happy bells , across the snow : The year is going , let him go : Ring out the false , ring in the true . Ring ...
... light ; The year is dying in the night ; Ring out , wild bells , and let him die . Ring out the old , ring in the new , Ring , happy bells , across the snow : The year is going , let him go : Ring out the false , ring in the true . Ring ...
Common terms and phrases
ALFRED TENNYSON beggar maid blessed break brimming river bugle call me early Claribel low-lieth comb Cophetua dark dying Earl was fair echoes Effie fall Farringford Edition flow To join flowers Forever and forever garden glad New-year go on forever golden hand happy hear heart heaven holy Grail HOME THEY BROUGHT Illustrated join the brimming kiss Lady Clara Vere Lady of Shalott Lancelot land last New-year late LAUNCELOT AND QUEEN Let me fly light little birdie little grave Low adown Maud mermen midnight the moon Milking the cow moon cometh mother dear night QUEEN GUINEVERE Ring rivulet Robin rode rose shines silent night SIR LAUNCELOT snowdrop snowy SONG soul stept Swallow sweet sweeter tears thee my steps There's thou thro To-morrow ill tower'd Camelot turn thy wheel turret and tree valley Vere de Vere wild bells wild wheel wind ye cannot enter yon rich sky
Popular passages
Page 20 - Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 19 - 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 ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 16 - 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, 'I wait...
Page 90 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 12 - There is but one With whom she has heart to be gay. When will the dancers leave her alone '' She is weary of dance and play.'' Now half to the setting moon are gone, And half to the rising day; Low on the sand and loud on the stone The last wheel echoes away.
Page 30 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 27 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite, Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Page 65 - To-night I saw the sun set: he set and left behind The good old year, the dear old time, and all my peace of mind; And the New-year's coming up, mother, but I shall never see The blossom on the blackthorn, the leaf upon the tree.
Page 39 - Did she look to Camelot. And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of ShalotL Lying, robed in snowy white That loosely flew to left and right— The leaves upon her falling light— Thro...
Page 27 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.