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Page 38
... sail ? Yet lives there one , whose heedless eye Shall scorn thy pale shrine glimmering near ? With him , sweet bard , may fancy die , And joy desert the blooming year . But thou , lorn stream , whose sullen tide No sedge - crown'd ...
... sail ? Yet lives there one , whose heedless eye Shall scorn thy pale shrine glimmering near ? With him , sweet bard , may fancy die , And joy desert the blooming year . But thou , lorn stream , whose sullen tide No sedge - crown'd ...
Page 72
... brick , and smoke , and shipping , Dirty and dusky , but as wide as eye Could reach , with here and there a sail just skipping In sight , then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe 72 -
... brick , and smoke , and shipping , Dirty and dusky , but as wide as eye Could reach , with here and there a sail just skipping In sight , then lost amidst the forestry Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe 72 -
Page 73
... sail , She is sublime .-- She seems a curtain'd gloom Connecting heaven and earth , - -a threat'ning sign of doom . With more than natural height , rear'd in the sky " Tis then St. Paul's arrests the wondering eye ; The lower parts in ...
... sail , She is sublime .-- She seems a curtain'd gloom Connecting heaven and earth , - -a threat'ning sign of doom . With more than natural height , rear'd in the sky " Tis then St. Paul's arrests the wondering eye ; The lower parts in ...
Page 114
... sails advance , Nor now to prove our chance , Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main , At Kaux , the mouth of Seine , With all his martial train , Landed King Harry . And taking many a fort , Furnished in warlike sort 114.
... sails advance , Nor now to prove our chance , Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main , At Kaux , the mouth of Seine , With all his martial train , Landed King Harry . And taking many a fort , Furnished in warlike sort 114.
Page 118
... sail to Plymouth bay ; Her crew hath seen Castile's black fleet , beyond Aurigny's Isle , At earliest twilight , on the waves lie heaving many a mile ; At sunrise she escaped their van , by God's especial grace ; And the tall Puita ...
... sail to Plymouth bay ; Her crew hath seen Castile's black fleet , beyond Aurigny's Isle , At earliest twilight , on the waves lie heaving many a mile ; At sunrise she escaped their van , by God's especial grace ; And the tall Puita ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON BARRY CORNWALL beauty beneath birds blow blue born bosom bower brave breast breath bright brow cloud dark dead dear death deep delight died dost doth dream earth eyes fair fame FELICIA HEMANS flowers gentle glory gold grave green hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hill JOHN KEATS land leaves LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON light lips lives lonely look LORD BYRON moon MOORE morn mountain mourn ne'er never night numbers o'er ocean pale PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY poet ROBERT BURNS ROBERT SOUTHEY rock rose round sail SEMICHORUS shade shine shore sigh silent sing sleep smile snow song sorrow soul sound SOUTHEY spirit star stream sweet tears tell thee thine things THOMAS THOMAS HOOD THOMAS MOORE thou art thought tree voice wandering waters waves weary weep wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings wood WORDSWORTH