The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth CenturyTilt and Bogue, 1841 - 344 pages |
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... thing of mortal birth , Whose happy home is on our earth ? Does human blood with life embue Those wandering veins of heavenly blue , That stray along thy forehead fair , Lost ' mid a gleam of golden hair ? Oh ! can that light and airy ...
... thing of mortal birth , Whose happy home is on our earth ? Does human blood with life embue Those wandering veins of heavenly blue , That stray along thy forehead fair , Lost ' mid a gleam of golden hair ? Oh ! can that light and airy ...
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... things of earth ! Night is the time to watch , On ocean's dark expanse , To hail the Pleiades , or catch The full moon's earliest glance , That brings unto the homesick mind All we have loved and left behind . Night is the time for care ...
... things of earth ! Night is the time to watch , On ocean's dark expanse , To hail the Pleiades , or catch The full moon's earliest glance , That brings unto the homesick mind All we have loved and left behind . Night is the time for care ...
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... thing : the earth Trembled as she presaged some coming ill ; The voice of thunder spake ; and in the midst Of that proud city , in the midst of Rome , The ground was riven in twain ; and , on the spot Where human steps had but so lately ...
... thing : the earth Trembled as she presaged some coming ill ; The voice of thunder spake ; and in the midst Of that proud city , in the midst of Rome , The ground was riven in twain ; and , on the spot Where human steps had but so lately ...
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... things , were meant To speak by proxy . Your chronicles no more exist , For Knox , the revolutionist , Destroyed the work of every fist That scrawled black letter ; Well ! I'm a craniologist , And may do better . This skull - cap wore ...
... things , were meant To speak by proxy . Your chronicles no more exist , For Knox , the revolutionist , Destroyed the work of every fist That scrawled black letter ; Well ! I'm a craniologist , And may do better . This skull - cap wore ...
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... thing , And what the friars bade him bring They ne'er were balked of ; Matters not worth remembering , And seldom talked of . Enough ! why need I farther pore ? This corner holds at least a score , And yonder twice as many more Of ...
... thing , And what the friars bade him bring They ne'er were balked of ; Matters not worth remembering , And seldom talked of . Enough ! why need I farther pore ? This corner holds at least a score , And yonder twice as many more Of ...
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ALARIC beam beauty Behave yoursel beneath billow bird blessed bloom blue bosom bower breast breath bright bright eyes brow calm cheek cloud cold dark dead dear death deep dream e'en earth EAST INDIAMAN faded fair fame feel fled flowers gaze gentle gleam glory glow gone grave green grief hath hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre hope hour land lassie leaves life's light lips lonely look LORD BYRON lute LYRE moon morning mountain N. P. WILLIS ne'er NELL GWYN never night o'er pale rest Rhine rose round Sappho shade shine shore SICILIAN VESPERS sigh silent skies sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spring stars storm stream summer sweet tears tempest thee thine thou art thou hast thou wert thought Twas Valentine's day voice wave weep wild wind wings young youth
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Page 214 - And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 164 - The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.
Page 58 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Page 193 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 257 - Guard it ! — God will prosper thee ! In the dark and trying hour, In the breaking forth of power, In the rush of steeds and men, His right hand will shield thee then. " Take thy banner ! But, when night Closes round the ghastly fight, If the vanquished warrior bow, Spare him ! — By our holy vow, By our prayers and many tears, By the mercy that endears, Spare him ! — he our love hath shared ! Spare him ! — as thou wouldst be spared...
Page 84 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 59 - was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe: Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Page 276 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Page 158 - Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prisoned men; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land-wind, from woods of palm, And orange-groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas.
Page 103 - midst Italian flowers — The last of that bright band. And parted thus they rest who played Beneath the same green tree ; Whose voices mingled as they prayed Around one parent knee...