Songs of the springtides |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 26
Page 7
... death's own sightless - seeming eyes a light Clearer , to death's bare bones a verier might , Than shines or strikes from any man that lives . How he that loves life overmuch shall die The dog's death , utterly : And he that much less ...
... death's own sightless - seeming eyes a light Clearer , to death's bare bones a verier might , Than shines or strikes from any man that lives . How he that loves life overmuch shall die The dog's death , utterly : And he that much less ...
Page 9
... death's sake , and for life's sake death . Till as the moon's own beam and breath confuse In one clear hueless haze of glimmering hues The sea's line and the land's line and the sky's , And light for love of darkness almost dies , As ...
... death's sake , and for life's sake death . Till as the moon's own beam and breath confuse In one clear hueless haze of glimmering hues The sea's line and the land's line and the sky's , And light for love of darkness almost dies , As ...
Page 11
... death and life are fashioned of , From the first breath that burns Half kindled on the flowerlike yeanling's lip , So light and faint that life seems like to slip , To that yet weaklier drawn When sunset dies of night's devouring dawn ...
... death and life are fashioned of , From the first breath that burns Half kindled on the flowerlike yeanling's lip , So light and faint that life seems like to slip , To that yet weaklier drawn When sunset dies of night's devouring dawn ...
Page 15
... death of evil things on earth Inevitable and infinite , and sure As present pain is , or herself is pure . Yea , she can hear and see , beyond all things That lighten from before Time's thunderous wings Through the awful circle of wheel ...
... death of evil things on earth Inevitable and infinite , and sure As present pain is , or herself is pure . Yea , she can hear and see , beyond all things That lighten from before Time's thunderous wings Through the awful circle of wheel ...
Page 19
... death , and bids rejoice . Yet then he spake no word , seeming as dumb , A dumb thing mild and hurtless ; nor at first From his bowed eyes seemed any light to come , Nor his meek lips for blood or tears to thirst : But as one blind and ...
... death , and bids rejoice . Yet then he spake no word , seeming as dumb , A dumb thing mild and hurtless ; nor at first From his bowed eyes seemed any light to come , Nor his meek lips for blood or tears to thirst : But as one blind and ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Academy Notes ALFRED CONCANEN Anecdotes ANTHONY TROLLOPE Author BESANT and JAMES bird birth blown breath BRET HARTE bright burn CHARLES cloth extra cloth gilt cloth limp Crown 8vo darkling darkness dead death deep Demy 8vo divine dreams earth Edited Essay eyes Facsimile fair Fcap fear fire flowers full-page gilt edges glory God's hand hath hear heard heaven History illustrated boards JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE JOHN SAUNDERS JUSTIN MCCARTHY knowest light lightened lips live love's LYNN LINTON MACQUOID man's MARK TWAIN men's hearts MOYR SMITH night NOVEL numerous Illustrations OUIDA Patricia Kemball Poems Portrait Post 8vo praise profusely Illustrated Prose rapture round sea's Shakespeare sing Small 8vo song song's soul sound spirit Square 8vo stars Stories strong sweet thee thine things THOMAS thou thunder time's tions Vols volume waves WILKIE COLLINS WILLIAM WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK wind wings word
Popular passages
Page 10 - German Popular Stories. Collected by the Brothers GRIMM, and Translated by EDGAR TAYLOR. Edited with an Introduction by JOHN RUSKIN. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitable designs of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Both Series Complete. " , " The illustrations of this volume . . . are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate ; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my * Elements of Drawing...
Page 11 - Shelley's Early Poems, and Queen Mab, with Essay by LEIGH HUNT. Shelley's Later Poems : Laon and Cythna, &c. Shelley's Posthumous Poems, the Shelley Papers, &c. Shelley's Prose Works, including A Refutation of Deism, Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, &c.
Page 29 - O'CONNELL : Historic Portraits. By WM TORRENS, MP In Two Vols. Crown Svo, cloth extra, with Coloured Illustrations, js. 6d. Turner's ( JMW) Life and Correspondence: Founded upon Letters and Papers furnished by his Friends and fellowAcademicians. By WALTER THORNBURY. A New Edition, considerably Enlarged. With numerous Illustrations in Colours, facsimiled from Turner's original Drawings.
Page 30 - Containing Notices of the Descent, Birth, Marriage, Education, &c., of more than 12,000 distinguished Heads of Families, their Heirs Apparent or Presumptive, the Offices they hold or have held, their Town and Country Addresses, Clubs, &c.
Page 13 - Conflicts of Capital and Labour Historically and Economically considered. Being a History and Review of the Trade Unions of Great Britain, showing their Origin, Progress, Constitution, and Objects, in their Political, Social, Economical, and Industrial Aspects. By GEORGE HOWELL.
Page 11 - Both Series Complete in One Vol. Leigh Hunt's Essays : A Tale for a Chimney Corner, and other Pieces. With Portrait, and Introduction by EDMUND OLLIER.
Page 3 - Imperial 4to, cloth extra, gilt and gilt edges. 2i*. per volume. Beautiful Pictures by British Artists : A Gathering of Favourites from our Picture Galleries. In Two Series. The FIRST SERIES including Examples by WILKIE, CONSTABLE TURNER, MULREADY, LANDSEER, MACLISE, EM WARD, FRITH, Sir JOHN GILBERT, LESLIE, ANSDELL, MARCUS STONE, Sir NOEL PATON, FAED, EYRE CROWE, GAVIN O'NEIL, and MADOX BROWN.
Page 13 - Hood's (Thomas) Choice Works, In Prose and Verse. Including the CREAM OF THE COMIC ANNUALS.
Page 3 - FAED, GOODALL, HEMSLEY, HORSLEY, MARKS, NICHOLLS, Sir NOEL PATON, PICKERSGILL, G. SMITH, MARCUS STONE, SOLOMON, STRAIGHT, EM WARD, and WARREN. All engraved on Steel in the highest style of Art. Edited, with Notices of the Artists, by SYDNEY ARMYTAGE, MA " This booh is well got up, and good engravings by Jeens, Lumb Stochs, and tthers, bring bach to us Royal Academy Exhibitions of fast years."— TIMES.
Page 25 - Pieces of Music, set to Words taken from the Plays and Poems of Shakespeare, the compositions ranging from the Elizabethan Age to the Present Time.