Poems of Places: Scotland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and SwedenHenry Wadsworth Longfellow J.R. Osgood and Company, 1876 - English poetry |
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... pride , of pomp , and sin , So freely let us lift the latch , 66 The willing latch that says , Come in . " Plain dwelling this ! a narrow door , No carpet by soft sandals trod , --- But just for peasant's feet a floor , Small ALLOWAY ...
... pride , of pomp , and sin , So freely let us lift the latch , 66 The willing latch that says , Come in . " Plain dwelling this ! a narrow door , No carpet by soft sandals trod , --- But just for peasant's feet a floor , Small ALLOWAY ...
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... pride ; But , asking , was told there was none else beside , Except an old weaver , who now kept a school , And these were the whole that were in Auchtertool . To his mansion I scampered , and rapped at the door ; He oped , but as soon ...
... pride ; But , asking , was told there was none else beside , Except an old weaver , who now kept a school , And these were the whole that were in Auchtertool . To his mansion I scampered , and rapped at the door ; He oped , but as soon ...
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... feelings wi ' the view Of sic an ugly Gothic hulk as you . AULD BRIG . Conceited gowk , puffed up wi ' windy pride ! This monie a year I've stood the flood and tide ; And though wi ' crazy eild I'm sair forfairn , AYR , THE RIVER . 59.
... feelings wi ' the view Of sic an ugly Gothic hulk as you . AULD BRIG . Conceited gowk , puffed up wi ' windy pride ! This monie a year I've stood the flood and tide ; And though wi ' crazy eild I'm sair forfairn , AYR , THE RIVER . 59.
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... pride ; For strangely blended right and wrong . I picture you as one who kneeled A stranger at his own hearthstone ; One knowing all , yet all unknown , One seeing all , yet all concealed ; The fitful years you lingered here , A lease ...
... pride ; For strangely blended right and wrong . I picture you as one who kneeled A stranger at his own hearthstone ; One knowing all , yet all unknown , One seeing all , yet all concealed ; The fitful years you lingered here , A lease ...
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... pride might climb the slippery steep , Where fame and honors lofty shine ; And thirst of gold might tempt the deep , Or downward seek the Indian mine ; Give me the cot below the pine , To tend the flocks or till the soil , And every day ...
... pride might climb the slippery steep , Where fame and honors lofty shine ; And thirst of gold might tempt the deep , Or downward seek the Indian mine ; Give me the cot below the pine , To tend the flocks or till the soil , And every day ...
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amang Auchtertool auld Ballochmyle banks of Ayr Ben Lomond beneath Bennachie birds birks birks of Aberfeldy Blaavin blaw blithe bloom blue bonnie Doon bonnie lass bosom bower Branksome Hall brave breast BRIG bright Carmyle Castle Castle-Gordon clouds Clyde Coquet Water corri crag Craig Elachie Craigcrook Craigie Hill Craigie Lea dark David Macbeth Moir dear deep dewy dream fair Farewell flowers foam frae Gadie rins gleaming glen gloom gray green ha'e hath heart heaven Highland hundred pipers lassie lo'ed Lomond lone loud Mary mony morn mountain mourn mournfully ne'er night o'er proud River roar Robert Burns Robert Tannahill rock round sang scene shade shore sing Sir Walter Scott smile solitude of Binnorie Stand fast stray stream summer sweet thee thine torrents towers tree vale wander wave weary wild William Wordsworth wind wood of Craigie
Popular passages
Page 1 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Page 56 - Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Page 168 - Lo !. the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction abroad ; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high ! Ah ! home let him speed — for the spoiler is nigh. Why flames the far summit? Why shoot to the blast, Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? 'Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements...
Page 73 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw...
Page 55 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi...
Page 170 - Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Page 197 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in 't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 25 - Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gathering sweet flowerets, she stems thy clear wave.
Page 183 - YE banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary, fu' o
Page 39 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the keystane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the keystane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake; For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tarn wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!