The World's Best Poetry ...J. D. Morris, 1904 |
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... once upon its birth . Love not ! Love not ! O warning vainly said In present hours as in years gone by ! Love flings a halo round the dear one's head , Faultless , immortal , till they change or die . Love not ! CAROLINE ELIZABETH ...
... once upon its birth . Love not ! Love not ! O warning vainly said In present hours as in years gone by ! Love flings a halo round the dear one's head , Faultless , immortal , till they change or die . Love not ! CAROLINE ELIZABETH ...
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... Once more with delight played the lad on his horn . She wept as the shadows grew long , and she sighed : " Oh , tell me , my God , what my heart doth betide , Now the sun has gone down . " From the Norwegian of BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON ...
... Once more with delight played the lad on his horn . She wept as the shadows grew long , and she sighed : " Oh , tell me , my God , what my heart doth betide , Now the sun has gone down . " From the Norwegian of BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON ...
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... once loved , long lost , Come back again . Forget not , but forgive ! Alas , too late I cry . We are two ghosts that had their chance to live , And lost it , she and I. ARTHUR SYMONS . MAUD MULLER . MAUD MULLER , on a summer's day 34 ...
... once loved , long lost , Come back again . Forget not , but forgive ! Alas , too late I cry . We are two ghosts that had their chance to live , And lost it , she and I. ARTHUR SYMONS . MAUD MULLER . MAUD MULLER , on a summer's day 34 ...
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... once beloved bride to see ; But be she alive , or be she dead , I fear , stern Earl , ' s the same to thee . " Not so the usage I received When happy in my father's hall ; No faithless husband then me grieved , No chilling fears did me ...
... once beloved bride to see ; But be she alive , or be she dead , I fear , stern Earl , ' s the same to thee . " Not so the usage I received When happy in my father's hall ; No faithless husband then me grieved , No chilling fears did me ...
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... once their charms so prized , Is sure the cause those charms are fled . " For know , when sick'ning grief doth prey , And tender love ' s repaid with scorn , The sweetest beauty will decay , - What floweret can endure the storm ? " At ...
... once their charms so prized , Is sure the cause those charms are fled . " For know , when sick'ning grief doth prey , And tender love ' s repaid with scorn , The sweetest beauty will decay , - What floweret can endure the storm ? " At ...
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angels Annabel Lee Auf wiedersehen beauty behold beneath bird blessed bloom breast breath bright brow calm cheek child cold Cumnor dark days go dead dear death doth dream dying earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes face fair Farewell fear flowers forever friends glory gone grave gray green grief hand hath hear heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hope hour JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER kiss light lips live Lochaber look Lord LORD TENNYSON Lycidas Mary morning mother never nevermore night o'er old Kentucky home pain pale peace PIERRE-JEAN DE BÉRANGER Queen rest ROBERT BURNS Robin Adair rose shadow shining shore sigh silent sing sleep smile snow song sorrow soul spirit spring stars summer sweet tears tender thee There's thine THOMAS HOOD thou art thought Vere voice weary weep wild wind
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Página 416 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
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Página 400 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...
Página 253 - Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes — Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade thro...
Página 224 - But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 197 - OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
Página 181 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Página 224 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin?