Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... give it the title of poetry . But here was a poem by a country parson ; the description of a sea - port town , so full of real life , yet so homely and often prosaic , that its effect on me was confounding . Why , it is not poetry , and ...
... give it the title of poetry . But here was a poem by a country parson ; the description of a sea - port town , so full of real life , yet so homely and often prosaic , that its effect on me was confounding . Why , it is not poetry , and ...
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... gives distinction to the place ? This can not be ; yet moved by your request , A part I paint - let fancy form the rest . Cities and towns , the various haunts of men , Require the pencil ; they defy the pen . Could he , who sung so ...
... gives distinction to the place ? This can not be ; yet moved by your request , A part I paint - let fancy form the rest . Cities and towns , the various haunts of men , Require the pencil ; they defy the pen . Could he , who sung so ...
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... give Should show so little how we truly live . " To me it seems , their females and their men Are but the creatures of the author's pen ; Nay , creatures borrowed , and again conveyed From book to book , the shadows of a shade . Life ...
... give Should show so little how we truly live . " To me it seems , their females and their men Are but the creatures of the author's pen ; Nay , creatures borrowed , and again conveyed From book to book , the shadows of a shade . Life ...
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... Give me one look before my life be gone , Oh ! give me that and let me not despair , One last fond look - and now repeat the prayer . ' She placed a decent stone his grave above , Neatly engraved - an offering of her love , For that she ...
... Give me one look before my life be gone , Oh ! give me that and let me not despair , One last fond look - and now repeat the prayer . ' She placed a decent stone his grave above , Neatly engraved - an offering of her love , For that she ...
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... Give me the brush this instant , and troop to the scullery , and wash that , madam ! . . . . As true as G - d's in heaven , here comes Lord Rochford to call on Mr. Tovell . Here , take my mantle , ' - -a blue woolen apron - 24 CRABBE .
... Give me the brush this instant , and troop to the scullery , and wash that , madam ! . . . . As true as G - d's in heaven , here comes Lord Rochford to call on Mr. Tovell . Here , take my mantle , ' - -a blue woolen apron - 24 CRABBE .
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Página 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Página 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Página 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Página 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Página 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Página 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Página 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...