Poems, Volume 1Edward Moxon, 1855 - 376 pages |
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... hold earth A nobler office upon Than arms , or power of brain , or birth Could give the warrior kings of old , Victoria , since your Royal grace To one of less desert allows This laurel greener from the brows Of him that utter'd nothing ...
... hold earth A nobler office upon Than arms , or power of brain , or birth Could give the warrior kings of old , Victoria , since your Royal grace To one of less desert allows This laurel greener from the brows Of him that utter'd nothing ...
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... hold converse with all forms Of the many - sided mind , And those whom passion hath not blinded , Subtle - thoughted , myriad - minded . My friend , with you to live alone , Were how much better than to own A crown , 30 ODE TO MEMORY .
... hold converse with all forms Of the many - sided mind , And those whom passion hath not blinded , Subtle - thoughted , myriad - minded . My friend , with you to live alone , Were how much better than to own A crown , 30 ODE TO MEMORY .
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... holds the hill : The grasshopper is silent in the grass : The lizard , with his shadow on the stone , Rests like a shadow , and the cicala sleeps . The purple flowers droop : the golden bee Is lily - cradled : I alone awake . My eyes ...
... holds the hill : The grasshopper is silent in the grass : The lizard , with his shadow on the stone , Rests like a shadow , and the cicala sleeps . The purple flowers droop : the golden bee Is lily - cradled : I alone awake . My eyes ...
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... hold of all my And mind , up the valley came again the music on the wind . But you were sleeping ; and I said , " It's not for them : it's mine . " And if it comes three times , I thought , I take it for a sign . And once again it came ...
... hold of all my And mind , up the valley came again the music on the wind . But you were sleeping ; and I said , " It's not for them : it's mine . " And if it comes three times , I thought , I take it for a sign . And once again it came ...
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... Hold swollen clouds from raining , tho ' my heart , Brimful of those wild tales , Charged both mine eyes with tears . In every land I saw , wherever light illumineth , Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand The downward slope to death ...
... Hold swollen clouds from raining , tho ' my heart , Brimful of those wild tales , Charged both mine eyes with tears . In every land I saw , wherever light illumineth , Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand The downward slope to death ...
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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...