The Children's Garland from the Best PoetsMacmillian and Company, Limited, 1899 - 344 pages |
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... head , heir dilated nostrils spread , ilently inhale over - scented gale , e vapours that arise he well - watered and smoking soil . s rest in the furrow after toil arge and lustrous eyes o thank the Lord , han man's spoken word . t ...
... head , heir dilated nostrils spread , ilently inhale over - scented gale , e vapours that arise he well - watered and smoking soil . s rest in the furrow after toil arge and lustrous eyes o thank the Lord , han man's spoken word . t ...
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... head , And with a look made of all sweet accord , Answer'd , ' The names of those who love the Lord . ' ' And is mine one ? ' said Abou . ' Nay , not so , ' Replied the Angel . Abou spoke more low , But cheerly still ; and said , ' I ...
... head , And with a look made of all sweet accord , Answer'd , ' The names of those who love the Lord . ' ' And is mine one ? ' said Abou . ' Nay , not so , ' Replied the Angel . Abou spoke more low , But cheerly still ; and said , ' I ...
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... head , bracelets too , and fragrant zone ; k'd at me as she did love , made sweet moan . and me roots of relish sweet , honey wild , and manna dew ; re in language strange she said , e thee true . k me to her elfin grot , there she ...
... head , bracelets too , and fragrant zone ; k'd at me as she did love , made sweet moan . and me roots of relish sweet , honey wild , and manna dew ; re in language strange she said , e thee true . k me to her elfin grot , there she ...
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... ock is crowing , tream is flowing , mall birds twitter , ake doth glitter , en field sleeps in the sun ; -ldest and youngest twork with the strongest ; FIN The cattle are grazing , Their heads never raising ; Garland 25 Written in March.
... ock is crowing , tream is flowing , mall birds twitter , ake doth glitter , en field sleeps in the sun ; -ldest and youngest twork with the strongest ; FIN The cattle are grazing , Their heads never raising ; Garland 25 Written in March.
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The cattle are grazing , Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated , And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill ; The Plough - boy is whooping anon , anon ...
The cattle are grazing , Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated , And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill ; The Plough - boy is whooping anon , anon ...
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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.