The Culprit Fay: And Other PoemsG. Dearborn, 1835 - 84 páginas |
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... walnut - shell Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath the tread of the centipede ; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim , Your jailer a spider huge and grim , Amid the carrion bodies to lie , Of the worm 6 THE CULPRIT FAY .
... walnut - shell Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath the tread of the centipede ; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim , Your jailer a spider huge and grim , Amid the carrion bodies to lie , Of the worm 6 THE CULPRIT FAY .
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... beneath the surface dim The brown - backed sturgeon slowly swim : Around him were the goblin train— But he skulled with all his might and main , And followed wherever the sturgeon led , Till he saw him upward point his head ; Then he ...
... beneath the surface dim The brown - backed sturgeon slowly swim : Around him were the goblin train— But he skulled with all his might and main , And followed wherever the sturgeon led , Till he saw him upward point his head ; Then he ...
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... and sunny hair , Throned on a cloud of purple fair , Circled with blue and edged with white , And sitting at the fall of even Beneath the bow of summer heaven . D XXII . A moment and its lustre fell , But THE CULPRIT FAY . 17.
... and sunny hair , Throned on a cloud of purple fair , Circled with blue and edged with white , And sitting at the fall of even Beneath the bow of summer heaven . D XXII . A moment and its lustre fell , But THE CULPRIT FAY . 17.
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... beneath him lies . XXIX . Up to the cope careering swift In breathless motion fast , Fleet as the swallow cuts the drift , Or the sea - roc rides the blast , The sapphire sheet of eve is shot , The sphered THE CULPRIT FAY . 23.
... beneath him lies . XXIX . Up to the cope careering swift In breathless motion fast , Fleet as the swallow cuts the drift , Or the sea - roc rides the blast , The sapphire sheet of eve is shot , The sphered THE CULPRIT FAY . 23.
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... Beneath a rainbow bending bright , She seemed to the entranced Fay The loveliest of the forms of light ; Her mantle was the purple rolled At twilight in the west afar ; " Twas tied with threads of dawning gold , And buttoned with a ...
... Beneath a rainbow bending bright , She seemed to the entranced Fay The loveliest of the forms of light ; Her mantle was the purple rolled At twilight in the west afar ; " Twas tied with threads of dawning gold , And buttoned with a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ASTOR beam beauty beneath beneath the sky blue born bosom bower brave breast breath bright Bronx brow burning charm cheek clouds cold courser CULPRIT FAY dark dear death doom dreams earth elfin fade fairy fame feel FITZ-GREENE HALLECK flowers friends gaze gentle GEORGE DEARBORN glance glow grave Greece green harp hath heart heaven hope hour HUDSON RIVER JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE kiss land life's light linger look lyre moonlight moonshine morning mountain NEW-YORK night o'er October 31 pillow POEMS Poet's pride proud pure rainbow rock RODMAN DRAKE round shade sigh sing skies slumbers smile song sorrow soul spark spell spirit sprite star storm stream summer sweet sylphs tears thee thine thou art Thou hast thought tree voice wandering warm water-sprites wave weep WEST POINT wild wind wings Wyoming YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Pasajes populares
Página 65 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 66 - tis given To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle-stroke, And bid its blendings shine afar, Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harbingers of victory!
Página 66 - Each soldier eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn, And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance.
Página 22 - Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth...
Página 67 - Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and tliee. And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.
Página 5 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow ; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate, and checks her tears : And she, the mother of thy boys, Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will, by their pilgrim-circled hearth, Talk of thy doom without a sigh : For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's ; One of the few, the immortal...
Página 68 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valor given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Página 9 - Twas tied with threads of dawning gold, And buttoned with a sparkling star. Her face was like the lily roon That veils the vestal planet's hue; Her eyes, two beamlets from the moon, Set floating in the welkin blue. Her hair is like the sunny beam, And the diamond gems which round it gleam Are the pure drops of dewy even That ne'er have left their native heaven.
Página 12 - Strong sense, deep feeling, passions strong, A hate of tyrant and of knave, A love of right, a scorn of wrong, Of coward and of slave; A kind, true heart, a spirit high, That could not fear and would not bow. Were written in his manly eye And on his manly brow.