English Narrative PoemsClaude Moore Fuess, Henry Nichols Sanborn Macmillan, 1909 - 286 pages |
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... Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind , 55 When Betty screaming came down stairs , 66 The wine is left behind ! " " Good lack ! " quoth he " .yet bring it me , My leathern belt likewise , In which I bear my trusty ...
... Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind , 55 When Betty screaming came down stairs , 66 The wine is left behind ! " " Good lack ! " quoth he " .yet bring it me , My leathern belt likewise , In which I bear my trusty ...
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... Twas wonderful to view , How in a trice the turnpike men Their gates wide open threw . 120 And now , as he went bowing down His reeking head full low , The bottles twain behind his back Were shatter'd at a blow . Down ran the wine into ...
... Twas wonderful to view , How in a trice the turnpike men Their gates wide open threw . 120 And now , as he went bowing down His reeking head full low , The bottles twain behind his back Were shatter'd at a blow . Down ran the wine into ...
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... Twas for your pleasure you came here , You shall go back for mine . " 200 Ah luckless speech , and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear ; For , while he spake , a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear ; Whereat his horse did ...
... Twas for your pleasure you came here , You shall go back for mine . " 200 Ah luckless speech , and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear ; For , while he spake , a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear ; Whereat his horse did ...
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... twas a ' her riches ) , Wad ever graced a dance o ' witches ! But here my Muse her wing maun cour ; Sic flights are far beyond her power ; - To sing how Nannie lap and flang ( A souple jade she was , and strang ) , And how Tam stood ...
... twas a ' her riches ) , Wad ever graced a dance o ' witches ! But here my Muse her wing maun cour ; Sic flights are far beyond her power ; - To sing how Nannie lap and flang ( A souple jade she was , and strang ) , And how Tam stood ...
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... Twas still some solace , in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth , To hearken to each other's speech , And each turn comforter to each With some new hope or legend old , Or song heroically bold ; But even these at length grew cold ...
... Twas still some solace , in the dearth Of the pure elements of earth , To hearken to each other's speech , And each turn comforter to each With some new hope or legend old , Or song heroically bold ; But even these at length grew cold ...
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Agnes Annie answer'd babe ballad BARBARA FRIETCHIE behold beneath breath call'd child cried Cutty-sark DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI dark dead Dear mother Ida death Dora Edited English Enoch Enoch Arden Enone eyes face fair father fear feet fell galloped Gilpin golden gone Grasmere gray grew guilders hand happy hath head hear heard hearken ere heart heaven Hervé Riel Hetman hill horse John Gilpin JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Julius Cæsar King knew land light limbs lips live lonely look look'd Lord maid Mazeppa Milanion morning never night o'er once Paul Revere Philip Piper Poems Porphyro ride rose round sail scarce Schoeneus Schoneus seem'd Sir Richard Grenville smile soul stood street tale tell thee things thou thought thro town turned Twas unto voice wave White Ship wife William WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind word
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Page 87 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord...
Page 20 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reach'd the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung ! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur ; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 216 - So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!
Page 43 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 86 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 155 - Aix," — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.
Page 39 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 2 - To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Page 226 - Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word; "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Page 19 - O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar...