The Children's Garland from the Best PoetsMacmillian and Company, Limited, 1899 - 344 pages |
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... Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river , For men may come , and men may go , But I go on forever . I chatter over stony ways , In little sharps and trebles , I bubble into eddying bays , I babble on the pebbles ...
... Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river , For men may come , and men may go , But I go on forever . I chatter over stony ways , In little sharps and trebles , I bubble into eddying bays , I babble on the pebbles ...
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... n Of the in He coun That he Only his Till the treacherous pool Engulfs them in its whirling And turbulent ocean . In the country on every side , Where far and wide , leopard's tawny and spotted hide es the plain , dry 16 The Children's.
... n Of the in He coun That he Only his Till the treacherous pool Engulfs them in its whirling And turbulent ocean . In the country on every side , Where far and wide , leopard's tawny and spotted hide es the plain , dry 16 The Children's.
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... Till his struggles grew weak , and his cries died away . the moon was a - s Under the gloomy his mother cou face ere as white as d her tongue was swell her senses cam fell . er more can s breast Under the leafy his eyes are rest , And ...
... Till his struggles grew weak , and his cries died away . the moon was a - s Under the gloomy his mother cou face ere as white as d her tongue was swell her senses cam fell . er more can s breast Under the leafy his eyes are rest , And ...
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... , how pleasant and fair , of wheat , t of flowers adorning the bowers , neadow's brow ; say , no courtier may with them who clothe in grey , he useful plough . They rise with the morning lark , And labour till Garland 31 he Useful Plough.
... , how pleasant and fair , of wheat , t of flowers adorning the bowers , neadow's brow ; say , no courtier may with them who clothe in grey , he useful plough . They rise with the morning lark , And labour till Garland 31 he Useful Plough.
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... till th Her eggs withi Like relics in But still , wher There is a b And , among f Are fairer t This , one of t In a green The forehead The leafy For she who Mistrustin Had to a pri Her wishe High on the And fixed The buddin The pret ...
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Page 167 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?
Page 4 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 71 - O sweeter than the marriage-feast, Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 206 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted— nevermore!
Page 199 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 62 - He holds him with his glittering eye — The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will.
Page 200 - Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: This it is, and nothing more.
Page 65 - And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; "We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. "Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.
Page 84 - The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.