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... D. G. Rossetti , and the remainder from another MS .; and finally various poems , also from Mr. Rossetti's MS . book , that had as yet not been published at all , or at any rate not in full . Of the chief of these , The Everlasting ...
... D. G. Rossetti , and the remainder from another MS .; and finally various poems , also from Mr. Rossetti's MS . book , that had as yet not been published at all , or at any rate not in full . Of the chief of these , The Everlasting ...
Page 117
... D. G. Rossetti in Gilchrist's Life of Blake ) it was obviously written to match with the Cradle Song pertaining to the Songs of Innocence , and here it finds its proper place . THE SCHOOLBOY . LOVE to rise on a summer morn SONGS OF ...
... D. G. Rossetti in Gilchrist's Life of Blake ) it was obviously written to match with the Cradle Song pertaining to the Songs of Innocence , and here it finds its proper place . THE SCHOOLBOY . LOVE to rise on a summer morn SONGS OF ...
Page 121
... D. G. Rossetti's MS . book . It was not published in Mr. Gilchrist's work , being deemed too odd and imperfect . There is , however , a certain element of poetical force in the poem , and it is at any rate extremely curious as ...
... D. G. Rossetti's MS . book . It was not published in Mr. Gilchrist's work , being deemed too odd and imperfect . There is , however , a certain element of poetical force in the poem , and it is at any rate extremely curious as ...
Page 144
... D. G. Rossetti . It is scattered up and down over many pages ; sometimes written neatly enough , and consecutively ; at other times , barely legible . Here a passage is scratched out or interpolated : there a passage already met with ...
... D. G. Rossetti . It is scattered up and down over many pages ; sometimes written neatly enough , and consecutively ; at other times , barely legible . Here a passage is scratched out or interpolated : there a passage already met with ...
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Page 106 - 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 ? And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart...
Page 78 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : — ' Pipe a song about a lamb : ' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear.
Page 92 - Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down, And the dews of night arise ; Come, come, leave off play, and let us away, Till the morning appears in the skies.
Page 83 - When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry
Page 98 - Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: "Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
Page 132 - Mock on' Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on: 'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem, Reflected in the beams divine. Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine.
Page 94 - Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow fill'd?
Page 50 - Whether in heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Page 87 - Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, Is God our Father dear ; And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, Is man, his child and care. For Mercy has a human heart ; Pity, a human face ; And Love, the human form divine; And Peace, the human dress.
Page 133 - O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?