The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, Volume 15John Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 - Literature |
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Page 1709
... hath he journeyed forth From his glorious , sceptred North ? Flying pride , and pomp , and power ; Suffering heat , and cold , and shower . Why ? because this noble King Light and truth and bliss might bring , Spread intelligence ...
... hath he journeyed forth From his glorious , sceptred North ? Flying pride , and pomp , and power ; Suffering heat , and cold , and shower . Why ? because this noble King Light and truth and bliss might bring , Spread intelligence ...
Page 1714
... hath fed , And feedeth still , more comely than itself ? Can it deny the chiefdom of green groves ? Or shall the tree be envious of the dove Because it cooeth , and hath snowy wings To wander wherewithal and find its joys ? — We are ...
... hath fed , And feedeth still , more comely than itself ? Can it deny the chiefdom of green groves ? Or shall the tree be envious of the dove Because it cooeth , and hath snowy wings To wander wherewithal and find its joys ? — We are ...
Page 1715
... hath been Cooled a long time in the deep - delved earth , Tasting of Flora and the country - green . Dance , and Provençal song , and sunburnt mirth ! Oh , for a beaker full of the warm South , Full of the true , the blushful hippocrene ...
... hath been Cooled a long time in the deep - delved earth , Tasting of Flora and the country - green . Dance , and Provençal song , and sunburnt mirth ! Oh , for a beaker full of the warm South , Full of the true , the blushful hippocrene ...
Page 1717
... hath Charmed magic casements , opening on the foam Of perilous seas , in faery lands forlorn . Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do ...
... hath Charmed magic casements , opening on the foam Of perilous seas , in faery lands forlorn . Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do ...
Page 1718
... hath not seen thee oft within thy store ? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor , Thy hair soft - lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half - reaped furrow sound asleep , Drowsed with the ...
... hath not seen thee oft within thy store ? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor , Thy hair soft - lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half - reaped furrow sound asleep , Drowsed with the ...
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Page 1718 - Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store ? Sometimes, whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers...
Page 1717 - The weariness, the fever, and the fret, Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Page 1733 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ; Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"? On that shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses!
Page 1816 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 1715 - Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone...
Page 1734 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 1715 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.