Poems, Volume 1Edward Moxon, 1855 - 376 pages |
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... fall : But the solemn oak - tree sigheth , Thick - leaved , ambrosial , With an ancient melody Of an inward agony , Where Claribel low - lieth . 2 . At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone : At noon the wild bee hummeth About ...
... fall : But the solemn oak - tree sigheth , Thick - leaved , ambrosial , With an ancient melody Of an inward agony , Where Claribel low - lieth . 2 . At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone : At noon the wild bee hummeth About ...
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... fall Of diamond rillets musical , Thro ' little crystal arches low Down from the central fountain's flow Fall'n silver - chiming , seem'd to shake The sparkling flints beneath the prow . A goodly place , a goodly time , For it was in ...
... fall Of diamond rillets musical , Thro ' little crystal arches low Down from the central fountain's flow Fall'n silver - chiming , seem'd to shake The sparkling flints beneath the prow . A goodly place , a goodly time , For it was in ...
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... falls Upon the storied walls ; For the discovery And newness of thine art so pleased thee , That all which thou hast drawn of fairest Or boldest since , but lightly weighs With thee unto the love thou bearest The first - born of thy ...
... falls Upon the storied walls ; For the discovery And newness of thine art so pleased thee , That all which thou hast drawn of fairest Or boldest since , but lightly weighs With thee unto the love thou bearest The first - born of thy ...
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... falling down to twilight grots , Or opening upon level plots Of crowned lilies , standing near Purple - spiked lavender : Whither in after life retired From brawling storms , From weary wind , With youthful fancy reinspired , We may ...
... falling down to twilight grots , Or opening upon level plots Of crowned lilies , standing near Purple - spiked lavender : Whither in after life retired From brawling storms , From weary wind , With youthful fancy reinspired , We may ...
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... fall to the ground if you came in . In the middle leaps a fountain Like sheet lightning , Ever brightening With a low melodious thunder ; All day and all night it is ever drawn From the brain of the purple mountain Which stands in the ...
... fall to the ground if you came in . In the middle leaps a fountain Like sheet lightning , Ever brightening With a low melodious thunder ; All day and all night it is ever drawn From the brain of the purple mountain Which stands in the ...
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Page 148 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 142 - In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 12 - He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 320 - AND on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old...
Page 270 - Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, " My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee.
Page 269 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish 'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 266 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. "There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine...
Page 70 - In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning, The broad stream in his banks complaining, Heavily the low sky raining Over...
Page 277 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do.
Page 32 - Over its grave i' the earth so chilly ; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. ii The air is damp, and hush'd, and close, As a sick man's room when he taketh repose An hour before death ; My very heart faints and my whole soul grieves At the moist rich smell of the rotting leaves, And the breath Of the fading edges of box beneath, And the year's last rose. Heavily hangs the broad...