The talking oakTicknor and Fields, 1855 - English poetry |
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... 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 would thrive When his man - minded offset rose ...
... 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 would thrive When his man - minded offset rose ...
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... scorned of devils ! this is truth the poet sings , That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things . Drug thy memories , lest thou learn it , lest thy heart be put to proof , In the dead , unhappy night , and when the rain ...
... scorned of devils ! this is truth the poet sings , That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things . Drug thy memories , lest thou learn it , lest thy heart be put to proof , In the dead , unhappy night , and when the rain ...
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... scorn : Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a mouldered string ? I am shamed through all my nature to have loved so slight a thing . Weakness to be wroth with weakness ! woman's pleas- ure , woman's pain Nature made them blinder ...
... scorn : Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a mouldered string ? I am shamed through all my nature to have loved so slight a thing . Weakness to be wroth with weakness ! woman's pleas- ure , woman's pain Nature made them blinder ...
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... scorn , He parted , with great strides among his dogs . So left alone , the passions of her mind , As winds from all the compass shift and blow , Made war upon each other for an hour , Till pity won . She sent a herald forth , And bade ...
... scorn , He parted , with great strides among his dogs . So left alone , the passions of her mind , As winds from all the compass shift and blow , Made war upon each other for an hour , Till pity won . She sent a herald forth , And bade ...
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... scorned , and bruised with stones : " But looking upward , full of grace , He prayed , and from a happy place God's glory smote him on the face . " 225 The sullen answer slid betwixt : " Not that the THE TWO VOICES . 65.
... scorned , and bruised with stones : " But looking upward , full of grace , He prayed , and from a happy place God's glory smote him on the face . " 225 The sullen answer slid betwixt : " Not that the THE TWO VOICES . 65.
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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.
Page 35 - Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time...
Page 45 - In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
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...