Ballads and Tales: Fourth Reader Grade, Livro 4University Publishing Company, 1896 - 160 páginas |
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Altorf answer arms army arrow ballad Ban and Bors Banquo battle Birnam Blancandrin blow boat bold Sir Bedivere brave Bregenz Caerleon called cantons captain castle Charles court cried crown death Dick Dunsinane Earl Douglas Emperor enemy England Excalibur father feast fell fight Fitzwarren Ganelon Gessler gold guards hand heard heart Holy Grail horse hundred kill King Arthur King Duncan King Lot King's Kings Ban knew knights land Lord Macbeth Macduff Marsir Merlin messengers minstrel Miss Alice mountain mournfully Naples never noble Percy Prince Malcolm prisoner quoth rats and mice replied Richard rode Roland Roswal Round Table Scotland Scottish Siege Perilous Sir Bedivere Sir Ector Sir Kay Sir Launcelot slain soon spears steed steward stood stranger sword tall palmer Tell Thane of Fife thee thou hast thousand throne told tyrant Uther Uther Pendragon Whittington wonder wood young
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Página 57 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Página 56 - But now the whole ROUND TABLE is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world ; And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
Página 52 - What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?' And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : ' I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.
Página 55 - Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Página 57 - So said he, and the barge with oar and sail Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. Long stood Sir Bedivere Revolving many memories, till the hull Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn, And on the meer the wailing died away.
Página 51 - On one side lay the ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere: "The sequel of today unsolders all The goodliest fellowship of famous knights Whereof this world holds record. Such a sleep They sleep— the men I loved. I think that we Shall...
Página 56 - Ah! my Lord Arthur, whither shall I go? Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes? For now I see the true old times are dead, When every morning brought a noble chance , And every chance brought out a noble knight.
Página 68 - Percy present word, He would prevent his sport. The English earl, not fearing that, Did to the woods resort, With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Página 56 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, 'Place me in the barge.
Página 71 - By whom this is denied." Then stepped a gallant squire forth, Witherington was his name, Who said, "I would not have it told To Henry our king, for shame, " That e'er my captain fought on foot, And I stood looking on.— You...