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... Sleep Sonnet XIX- - Silent Noon . Sonnet LXXXVI - Lost Days ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ( 1837- Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon The Salt of the Earth . ALFRED TENNYSON ( 1809-1892 ) . Mariana Break , Break , Break NOTES Bugle Song Tears ...
... Sleep Sonnet XIX- - Silent Noon . Sonnet LXXXVI - Lost Days ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ( 1837- Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon The Salt of the Earth . ALFRED TENNYSON ( 1809-1892 ) . Mariana Break , Break , Break NOTES Bugle Song Tears ...
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... sleep , Seated in thy silver chair , State in wonted manner keep : Hesperus entreats thy light , Goddess excellently bright . Earth , let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made ΙΟ 15 5 Heaven to ...
... sleep , Seated in thy silver chair , State in wonted manner keep : Hesperus entreats thy light , Goddess excellently bright . Earth , let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made ΙΟ 15 5 Heaven to ...
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... Sleep . And let some strange mysterious dream , Wave at his wings in airy stream , Of lively portraiture displayed , Softly on my eyelids laid . 150 And as I wake , sweet music breathe Above , about , or underneath , Sent by some Spirit ...
... Sleep . And let some strange mysterious dream , Wave at his wings in airy stream , Of lively portraiture displayed , Softly on my eyelids laid . 150 And as I wake , sweet music breathe Above , about , or underneath , Sent by some Spirit ...
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... Or whether thou , to our moist vows denied , Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old , Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks towards Namancos and Bayona's hold . 155 160 Look homeward , Angel , now , and melt with MILTON 87.
... Or whether thou , to our moist vows denied , Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old , Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks towards Namancos and Bayona's hold . 155 160 Look homeward , Angel , now , and melt with MILTON 87.
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... sleep the weary'd world reliev'd , By counterfeiting death reviv'd . PART II , CANTO II , 11. 29-32 The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap , And , like a lobster boil'd , the morn From black to red began to ...
... sleep the weary'd world reliev'd , By counterfeiting death reviv'd . PART II , CANTO II , 11. 29-32 The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap , And , like a lobster boil'd , the morn From black to red began to ...
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Page 343 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark ! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Page 261 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 124 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 134 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 58 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee...
Page 74 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 259 - Who are these coming to the sacrifice ? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest...
Page 61 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted...
Page 138 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way "With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 209 - The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, — And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest ! LEIGH HUNT.