The talking oakTicknor and Fields, 1855 - English poetry |
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... girls upon the cheek , XII . " Ere yet , in scorn of Peter's - pence , And numbered bead , and shrift , Bluff Harry broke into the spence , And turned the cowls adrift : XIII . " And I have seen some score of those Fresh faces , that ...
... girls upon the cheek , XII . " Ere yet , in scorn of Peter's - pence , And numbered bead , and shrift , Bluff Harry broke into the spence , And turned the cowls adrift : XIII . " And I have seen some score of those Fresh faces , that ...
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... shaft . gay , " I swear ( and else XVIII . may insects prick Each leaf into a gall ) This girl , for whom your heart is sick , Is three times worth them all ; XIX . " For those and theirs , by Nature's THE TALKING OAK . 5.
... shaft . gay , " I swear ( and else XVIII . may insects prick Each leaf into a gall ) This girl , for whom your heart is sick , Is three times worth them all ; XIX . " For those and theirs , by Nature's THE TALKING OAK . 5.
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... girls 50 In circle waited , whom the electric shock Dislinked with shrieks and laughter : round the lake 55 A little clock - work steamer paddling plied And shook the lilies : perched about the knolls A dozen angry models jetted steam ...
... girls 50 In circle waited , whom the electric shock Dislinked with shrieks and laughter : round the lake 55 A little clock - work steamer paddling plied And shook the lilies : perched about the knolls A dozen angry models jetted steam ...
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... girl - graduates in their golden - hair . I think they should not wear our rusty gowns , But move as rich as Emperor - moths , or Ralph Who shines so in the corner ; yet I fear , If there were many Lilias in the brood , However deep you ...
... girl - graduates in their golden - hair . I think they should not wear our rusty gowns , But move as rich as Emperor - moths , or Ralph Who shines so in the corner ; yet I fear , If there were many Lilias in the brood , However deep you ...
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... girls -- Sick for the hollies and the yews of home- As many little trifling Lilias — played Charades and riddles as at Christmas here , And what's my thought and when and where and how , 175 And often told a tale from mouth to mouth As ...
... girls -- Sick for the hollies and the yews of home- As many little trifling Lilias — played Charades and riddles as at Christmas here , And what's my thought and when and where and how , 175 And often told a tale from mouth to mouth As ...
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Page 37 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 35 - Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade. Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed; When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed; When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see. Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be...
Page 31 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, ^ Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 207 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
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Page 46 - Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Page 36 - Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, 'My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee.
Page 99 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 31 - I am become a name For always roaming with a hungry heart. Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments Myself not least, but...