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... tell their tale ; so that of the whole it may be affirmed that they neither require nor reject the accompaniment of music . - 2dly , The Dramatic , consisting of Tra- gedy , Historic Drama , Comedy , and Masque ; in which the poet does ...
... tell their tale ; so that of the whole it may be affirmed that they neither require nor reject the accompaniment of music . - 2dly , The Dramatic , consisting of Tra- gedy , Historic Drama , Comedy , and Masque ; in which the poet does ...
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... an agate - stone On the fore - finger of an Alderman . " Di- Having to speak of stature , she does not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as Pom- pey's Pillar ; much less that he was twelve cubits a 6 PREFACE . XXXV.
... an agate - stone On the fore - finger of an Alderman . " Di- Having to speak of stature , she does not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as Pom- pey's Pillar ; much less that he was twelve cubits a 6 PREFACE . XXXV.
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... tell . " She answered , “ Seven are we ; And two of us at Conway dwell , And two are gone to sea . Two of us in the church - yard lie , My sister and my brother ; And , in the church - yard cottage , I Dwell near them with my mother ...
... tell . " She answered , “ Seven are we ; And two of us at Conway dwell , And two are gone to sea . Two of us in the church - yard lie , My sister and my brother ; And , in the church - yard cottage , I Dwell near them with my mother ...
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... at Liswyn farm ? And tell me , had you rather be , " I said , and held him by the arm , " At Kilve's smooth shore by the green sea , Or here at Liswyn farm ? " In careless mood he looked at me , 1 While ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS . 23.
... at Liswyn farm ? And tell me , had you rather be , " I said , and held him by the arm , " At Kilve's smooth shore by the green sea , Or here at Liswyn farm ? " In careless mood he looked at me , 1 While ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS . 23.
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... tell me why ? " - " I cannot tell , I do not know . " " Why , this is strange , " said I. " For , here are woods , and green There surely must some reason be hills warm : Why you would change sweet Liswyn farm For Kilve by the green sea ...
... tell me why ? " - " I cannot tell , I do not know . " " Why , this is strange , " said I. " For , here are woods , and green There surely must some reason be hills warm : Why you would change sweet Liswyn farm For Kilve by the green sea ...
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Page 41 - Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things— With life and nature — purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain...
Page 3 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 181 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me!
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Page 215 - No Spectre greets me, — no vain Shadow this; Come, blooming Hero, place thee by my side! Give, on this well-known couch, one nuptial kiss To me, this day, a second time thy bride!
Page 16 - I —Yet some maintain that to this day She is a living child ; That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome wild. O'er rough and smooth she trips along, And never looks behind ; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.
Page 18 - I met a little cottage Girl : She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head.
Page 15 - The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. At day-break on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept — and, turning homeward, cried, "In heaven we all shall meet;" — When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet.
Page 312 - And, as his Father had requested, laid The first stone of the Sheepfold. At the sight...
Page 42 - mid the calm of summer nights, When, by the margin of the trembling lake, Beneath the gloomy hills, homeward I went In solitude, such intercourse was mine : Mine was it in the fields both day and night, And by the waters, all the summer long...