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... Lord Thomas he was a bold forester . Mary - Ann was alone with her baby in arms My banks they are furnished with bees My heart leaps up when I behold Napoleon's banners at Boulogne • • PAGE 220 339 320 238 258 30 118 341 178 No stir in ...
... Lord Thomas he was a bold forester . Mary - Ann was alone with her baby in arms My banks they are furnished with bees My heart leaps up when I behold Napoleon's banners at Boulogne • • PAGE 220 339 320 238 258 30 118 341 178 No stir in ...
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... Lord Archibald Shepherds all , and maidens fair Sir John got him an ambling nag . Some will talk of bold Robin Hood . Spring , the sweet Spring , is the year's pleasant king The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold The boy stood ...
... Lord Archibald Shepherds all , and maidens fair Sir John got him an ambling nag . Some will talk of bold Robin Hood . Spring , the sweet Spring , is the year's pleasant king The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold The boy stood ...
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... Lord Randal xx John Barleycorn XXI Mary - Ann's Child XXII The Useful Plough XXIII A Wren's Nest XXIV A fine Day XXV Casabianca , a True Story XXVI Signs of Rain XXVII How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix XXVIII The Rainbow ...
... Lord Randal xx John Barleycorn XXI Mary - Ann's Child XXII The Useful Plough XXIII A Wren's Nest XXIV A fine Day XXV Casabianca , a True Story XXVI Signs of Rain XXVII How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix XXVIII The Rainbow ...
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... Lord of Burleigh LXV The Mountain and the Squirrel LXVI Evening LXVII The Parrot LXVIII Song LXIX The Blind Boy LXX False Friends - like LXXI Goody Blake and Harry Gill LXXII The Jovial Beggar LXXIII Bishop Hatto LXXIV The Old Courtier ...
... Lord of Burleigh LXV The Mountain and the Squirrel LXVI Evening LXVII The Parrot LXVIII Song LXIX The Blind Boy LXX False Friends - like LXXI Goody Blake and Harry Gill LXXII The Jovial Beggar LXXIII Bishop Hatto LXXIV The Old Courtier ...
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... Lord Ullin's Daughter CXXIV The Sea CXXV Fidelity CXXVI The Fox and the Cat CXXVII The Dog and the Water - Lily CXXVIII An Epitaph on a Robin Redbreast CXXIX Baucis and Philemon CXXX Lullaby for Titania CXXXI Lord Thomas and Fair ...
... Lord Ullin's Daughter CXXIV The Sea CXXV Fidelity CXXVI The Fox and the Cat CXXVII The Dog and the Water - Lily CXXVIII An Epitaph on a Robin Redbreast CXXIX Baucis and Philemon CXXX Lullaby for Titania CXXXI Lord Thomas and Fair ...
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Page 159 - 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 215 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. All. Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf : Witches...
Page 65 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 59 - Out of the sea came he ! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Page 177 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 196 - 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 183 - Twas autumn, and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Page 195 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 21 - I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful, a faery's child; Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild. I...
Page 59 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. 50 And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.