English Narrative PoemsClaude Moore Fuess, Henry Nichols Sanborn Macmillan, 1909 - 286 pages |
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... feet , The snorting beast began to trot , Which gall'd him in his seat . So , " fair and softly , " John he cried , But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon , In spite of curb and rein . So stooping down , as needs he ...
... feet , The snorting beast began to trot , Which gall'd him in his seat . So , " fair and softly , " John he cried , But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon , In spite of curb and rein . So stooping down , as needs he ...
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... feet must struggle ; in such bold ascent The pastoral mountains front you , face to face . But courage ! for around that boisterous brook The mountains have all opened out themselves , And made a hidden valley of their own . No ...
... feet must struggle ; in such bold ascent The pastoral mountains front you , face to face . But courage ! for around that boisterous brook The mountains have all opened out themselves , And made a hidden valley of their own . No ...
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... feet . The length of full seven years , from time to time , 470 He at the building of this Sheepfold wrought , And left the work unfinished when he died . Three years , or little more , did Isabel Survive her Husband : at his death the ...
... feet . The length of full seven years , from time to time , 470 He at the building of this Sheepfold wrought , And left the work unfinished when he died . Three years , or little more , did Isabel Survive her Husband : at his death the ...
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... feet disperse the powdery snow , That rises up like smoke . The storm came on before its time : She wandered up and down ; And many a hill did Lucy climb , But never reached the town . The wretched parents all that night Went shouting ...
... feet disperse the powdery snow , That rises up like smoke . The storm came on before its time : She wandered up and down ; And many a hill did Lucy climb , But never reached the town . The wretched parents all that night Went shouting ...
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... feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre . BATTLE OF THE BALTIC I OF Nelson and the North , Sing the glorious day's renown , When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown , And her arms along the deep proudly shone ; By ...
... feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre . BATTLE OF THE BALTIC I OF Nelson and the North , Sing the glorious day's renown , When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown , And her arms along the deep proudly shone ; By ...
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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...