English Narrative PoemsClaude Moore Fuess, Henry Nichols Sanborn Macmillan, 1909 - 286 pages |
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... telling of the exploits of gods or legendary heroes . In the course of time there arose the minstrel , who , act- ing first as chorus leader , became eventually the repre- sentative of the tribe and its own special singer . When we ...
... telling of the exploits of gods or legendary heroes . In the course of time there arose the minstrel , who , act- ing first as chorus leader , became eventually the repre- sentative of the tribe and its own special singer . When we ...
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... as the protagonist . But these knights and ladies are , we learn , merely animated vices and virtues and are such , because , as Spenser takes pains to tell us , the poem , though romantic in mood , is allegorical INTRODUCTION XV.
... as the protagonist . But these knights and ladies are , we learn , merely animated vices and virtues and are such , because , as Spenser takes pains to tell us , the poem , though romantic in mood , is allegorical INTRODUCTION XV.
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... tell ; 165 Tell me you must and shall — Say why bareheaded you are come , Or why you come at all ? ” Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit , And loved a timely joke ; 170 And thus unto the calender In merry guise he spoke : " I came because ...
... tell ; 165 Tell me you must and shall — Say why bareheaded you are come , Or why you come at all ? ” Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit , And loved a timely joke ; 170 And thus unto the calender In merry guise he spoke : " I came because ...
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... but one inmate in their house , An only Child , who had been born to them When Michael , telling o'er his years , began To deem that he was old , in shepherd's phrase , - - With one foot in the grave . This only Son MICHAEL 223 23.
... but one inmate in their house , An only Child , who had been born to them When Michael , telling o'er his years , began To deem that he was old , in shepherd's phrase , - - With one foot in the grave . This only Son MICHAEL 223 23.
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... tell ! In quiet we had learned to dwell My very chains and I grew friends , So much a long communion tends To make us what we are : even I Regained my freedom with a sigh . MAZEPPA I " TWAS after dread Pultowa's day , When Fortune left ...
... tell ! In quiet we had learned to dwell My very chains and I grew friends , So much a long communion tends To make us what we are : even I Regained my freedom with a sigh . MAZEPPA I " TWAS after dread Pultowa's day , When Fortune left ...
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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...