Travellers JoyWilliam George Waters E.P. Dutton, 1906 - 319 páginas |
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... past , seeing that every succeeding decade has largely increased the literary store from which he may gather . Fresh volumes of selections follow one another without intermission , and these , with a few marked exceptions , quickly sink ...
... past , seeing that every succeeding decade has largely increased the literary store from which he may gather . Fresh volumes of selections follow one another without intermission , and these , with a few marked exceptions , quickly sink ...
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... past generations , grows ever more profound and undisturbed by reason of the perverted humour of the age , which ostentatiously postpones the claims of literary excellence to those of superficial novelty . In turning over their neg ...
... past generations , grows ever more profound and undisturbed by reason of the perverted humour of the age , which ostentatiously postpones the claims of literary excellence to those of superficial novelty . In turning over their neg ...
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... past ; but a common mistake in many of these has been the allowance of novelty or of well- worn familiarity as qualification for admittance . Search will show that numerous treasures of our earlier literature still remain unknown except ...
... past ; but a common mistake in many of these has been the allowance of novelty or of well- worn familiarity as qualification for admittance . Search will show that numerous treasures of our earlier literature still remain unknown except ...
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... past , the fading rose ; For in your beauty's orient deep These flowers , as in their causes , sleep . Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day ; For in pure love heaven doth prepare Those powders to enrich your hair ...
... past , the fading rose ; For in your beauty's orient deep These flowers , as in their causes , sleep . Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day ; For in pure love heaven doth prepare Those powders to enrich your hair ...
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... the strait into which he had been brought from lack of the wealth he had squandered so foolishly . When he found he had nothing where- with he might entertain the lady for whose sake he had feasted people without limit in the past , 106.
... the strait into which he had been brought from lack of the wealth he had squandered so foolishly . When he found he had nothing where- with he might entertain the lady for whose sake he had feasted people without limit in the past , 106.
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A. C. Swinburne A. H. Clough beauty better bird breath bright brother brow dark dead dear death delight doth dreams earth eyes F. W. Bourdillon fair falcon fear Federigo flowers forest George Darley Giovanni Francesco Straparola give grave green hair hand happy hast hath head hear heart heaven honour hour Iseult J. C. Mangan John Donne keep king kiss knew lady laugh Laurence Binyon leave light lips live look Lord Tennyson love's lovers merry mind morning never Nicholas Breton night o'er passion pleasure Poems rest rose round shade shepherd shew sigh sing sleep smile Song Sonnets soul stars summer sweet tears tell tender thee thine things Thomas Campion thought tree Tristan unto W. E. Henley weep wind wood words young youth
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Página 161 - Withdraws into its happiness ; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find ; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside...
Página 53 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Página 292 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn : Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Página 111 - She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace; For well she knew, I could not choose But gaze upon her face. I told her of the Knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand; And that for ten long years he wooed The Lady of the Land.
Página 81 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound...
Página 178 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.
Página 20 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows, That we one jot of former love retain...
Página 2 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet; Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast, My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest — Ah, wanton, will ye?
Página 112 - And that he cross'd the mountain-woods, Nor rested day nor night; That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up at once In green and sunny glade, There came and looked him in the face An angel beautiful and bright; And that he knew it was a Fiend, This miserable Knight!
Página 84 - The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.