category: english poetry

The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats

... sea Which tempests shake eternally , As once the wretch there lay to sleep ... sunless vapour , dim , Who once clothed with life and thought What now moves ... sapphire - tinted skies ; As the flames of sacrifice From the marble shrines ...

The English Parnassus: An Anthology, Chiefly of Longer Poems

... entwined , Through Nature's skill , May even by contraries be joined More closely still . The tear will start , and ... heather . 40 10 50 What treasures would have then been placed Within my reach AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS 311.

Poetical Works ...

... my notes , to 240. Subjects from the Old Tes- tament face the passenger as he goes towards the Cathedral , and those from the New as he returns . The pictures on these bridges , as well as those in most other parts of Switzerland , are not ...

Hardpressed Poetry: The Journal

... post - nihilism which involves understanding our vagueness not as absence or lack but as a new donation , as a right to be whatever . Agamben recalls the Chinese May at Tiannamen Square and the violence of the State's response there ...

Torrent of Portugal: An English Metrical Romance. Now First Published from an Unique Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, Preserved in the Chetham Library at Manchester

... Torrent undyr hys staff rane , To the hart he baryd hym than , And lothely cry gane he . To the g [ r ] ownd he felle ase tyght ; And Torrent gan his hed of smyght , And thus he wynnythe the gré . Torrent knelyd on the grownd , And ...

French Jesuits in England and Other Rhymes: (with Copious Notes, Etc.)

... dungeon dread - So howsoe'er had once been bent Their minds or evil their intent - When rose intolerance , as fell As was their own , thing sad to tell Priests hating as the gates of hell And against priests new bigots drew The swords ...

The Gipsy King: And Other Poems

And Other Poems Richard Howitt. SONNET . TO VENICE . CITY of palaces and dungeons dread , Venice ! of patriots the living tomb : Thy Bridge of Sighs in me may stir not gloom ; Nor yet the memory of thy glory dead , As when of Silvio ...

Songs of the Rising Nation: And Other Poems

... dungeon's dread gloom , And their myriad victims who call from the tomb ; Meet the foe , and strike home with a vengeance - nerved hand , Till his false blood shall crimson the Flag of our Land ! " Tis up , and at last , ' neath 172 ...

Dreamland: With Other Poems

... dungeon dread , Till falls ' neath felon axe that kingly head- No flames prophetic notes reflected there , When the wide welkin , stained with murderous red , And the far hill - tops answering to the glare , Proclaim what wild alarms ...

Translations from the German Poets of the 18th and 19th Centuries

... dungeon dread . THE SERENADE . ' WHAT strains of music sweet and clear Rouse me from slumber deep ? Oh , mother ! see who it may be , Now all around doth sleep . ' ' Nothing I hear , I nothing see , Oh slumber soft again ! No love ...

Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ...

... poetry very high , and bestows on it the proudest appellations , in his Advancement of Learning , and has written a treatise professedly to show , in reference to their fables , " the Wisdom of the An- cients . " But the world are too ...

The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenys

... blessing ! Ah ! thy looks Reject the proffer - yet some rev'rence bear To ... my orphan boy ! Who must become his guardian , who supply My care , should ... former humble state , Friend of my childhood , youth , and ripen'd years , Would ...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Including Introduction and Notes

... my share , Which in my barret - cap I'll bear , Perchance , in jeopardy of war , Where gayer crests may keep afar . " With thanks - ' twas all she could - the maid His rugged courtesy repaid . XI . When Ellen forth with Lewis went ...

Madonna's Child

... vice , a ... vices of the day , with want of plain speaking . He has a great deal to say , and he says it in the plainest , boldest , and most pungent style . In a bold and trenchant fashion the author deals with the great vices , follies ...

The Poets of Clackmannanshire: With Numerous Specimens of Their Writings

... cadence flows . Land of the torrent , the streamlet , and glen ; Land of sweet maidens , and brave honest men ; Land of the pibroch , the tartan , and plaid , Round thy time - honoured name a halo is shed . Thy dark - rolling rivers ...

From Ben Jonson to Beattie

... Here , as I watch'd the dying lamp around , From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound . " Come ... poem is introduced in the manner of the Pro- vençal poets , whose works were ... Here naked rocks , and empty wastes , were seen ; There towering ...

Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

... destin'd task of labour hardly done ; Goes forth again with the ascending ... brass , or wounded marble , shows Victor o'er Life , and all her train of ... case ; From the first blooming of his ill - taught youth , Nourish'd in flattery ...

Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie: With Biographical and Critical Notices

... Come , sister , come ! " ( it said , or seem'd to say ) Thy place is here ... poem is introduced in the manner of the Pro- vençal poets , whose works were ... Here naked rocks , and empty wastes , were seen ; There towering cities , and the ...

The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged...: From Ben Jonson to Beattie

... Here , as I watch'd the dying lamp around , From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound . " Come ... poem is introduced in the manner of the Pro- vençal poets , whose works were ... Here naked rocks , and empty wastes , were seen ; There towering ...

Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Falconer to Sir Walter Scott with Biographical and Critical Notices

... Here , as I watch'd the dying lamp around , From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound . “ Come ... poem is introduced in the manner of the Pro- vençal poets , whose works were ... Here naked rocks , and empty wastes , were seen ; There towering ...

Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie with Biographical and Critical Notices

... FOREST . THE hinds how blest , who ne'er beguil'd To quit their hamlet's hawthorn wild ; Nor haunt the crowd , nor tempt the main , For splendid care , and guilty gain ! When morning's twilight ... charm their steps explore Of Solitude's ...

The Yellow Canary Whose Eye is So Black

... como un escolar sencillo , en el canario amarillo , — ¡ que tiene el ojo tan negro ! Yo quiero , cuando me muera , sin patria , pero sin amo , tener en mi losa un ramo de flores , ¡ y una bandera ! I fall silent , aware , and leave the ...

The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Poetry ...

Oh ! were I by your bounty fed- Nay , gentle lady , do not chide ; Trust me , I mean to earn my bread ; The sailor's orphan boy has pride . Lady , you weep ! -Ha ! -this to me ? You'll give me clothing , food , employ ? Look down , dear ...

The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Spenser, Daniel

... Ds cretion is the best measure , the rightest foot in what pace soever it run . Erasmus , Rewchin , and Moore ... change man , our imperfections must still run on with us , and therefore the wiser nations have taught men always to use ...

Manuscript Tanner 346: A Facsimile : Bodleian Library, Oxford University

... tome and safe hem inftes mete dnd hum concyth thorns the martyr facte of athucce and to the Re in Broyht dnd turneth ... battle tefte her maidenhede thanther her hede by facuttle and Gr Hve mythe lo Bere adede of men and that a vphit The ...

Caliban's Redemption

... soul envisions God or Creative Nature in It's Oneness and Eternity, the Elohenu and Echod of Toraic literature becomes Man himself, part of eternity, his ideas clear and adequate and his soul filled with intellectual love for God ...

Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley

... hell great room they took : These termagants , with tag and tatter , Full loud in Erse begouth to clatter , And roup1 like raven and rook . The Devil so deaved was with their yell , That in the deepest pit of hell He smothered them with ...

The Bards of Angus and the Mearns: An Anthology of the Counties

... Bowman has done good service by publishing , in his Broughty Ferry Almanac , selected specimens of the work of local ... Cowerin ' , tremblin ' lintie . But summer's past , an ' wintry blaw Has driftit sair the frozen snaw ; I think , as ...

Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem, and The Fight at Finnsburh: a Fragment

... NOTE TO THE SECOND REVISED EDITION . THE editors feel so encouraged at the kind reception accorded their edition of Beówulf ... Cornell University , for the loan of periodicals necessary to the ... NOTE I. THE present work , carefully edited ...

Lays and Legends of Thomond: With Historical and Traditional Notes

... burning sky- Charge , like a flood with raging torrents swell'd- Break the war's beam and sweep the roaring field ! ” Fierce was the war - whoop from the troops that burst And in the field their monarch was the first ; His fiery armour ...

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