Dramatis PersonaeChapman and Hall, 1864 - 250 pages |
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... turns now to a fault - there ! there ! That I do love , watch too long , And wait too well , and weary and wear ; And ' tis all an old story , and my despair Fit subject for some new song : 8 . How the light , light love , he 10 JAMES LEE .
... turns now to a fault - there ! there ! That I do love , watch too long , And wait too well , and weary and wear ; And ' tis all an old story , and my despair Fit subject for some new song : 8 . How the light , light love , he 10 JAMES LEE .
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... , he has wings to fly At suspicion of a bond : How my wisdom has bidden your pleasure good - bye , Which will turn up next in a laughing eye , And why should you look beyond ? V. ON THE CLIFF . 1 . I leaned on JAMES LEE . 11.
... , he has wings to fly At suspicion of a bond : How my wisdom has bidden your pleasure good - bye , Which will turn up next in a laughing eye , And why should you look beyond ? V. ON THE CLIFF . 1 . I leaned on JAMES LEE . 11.
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... turn , concede to me , Such things have been as a mutual flame . Your soul's locked fast ; but , love for a key , You might let it loose , till I grew the same In your eyes , as in mine you stand : strange plea ! 3 . For then , then ...
... turn , concede to me , Such things have been as a mutual flame . Your soul's locked fast ; but , love for a key , You might let it loose , till I grew the same In your eyes , as in mine you stand : strange plea ! 3 . For then , then ...
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... these coarse hanks of hair , And your skin , this bark of a gnarled tree , — You might turn myself ; should I know or care , When I should be dead of joy , James Lee ? GOLD HAIR : A STORY OF PORNIC . GOLD HAIR 24 JAMES LEE .
... these coarse hanks of hair , And your skin , this bark of a gnarled tree , — You might turn myself ; should I know or care , When I should be dead of joy , James Lee ? GOLD HAIR : A STORY OF PORNIC . GOLD HAIR 24 JAMES LEE .
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... turn my grave To a blaze of joy and a crash of song . 11 . Witness beforehand ! Off I trip On a safe path gay through the flowers you flung : My very name made great by your lip , And my heart a - glow with the good I know Of a perfect ...
... turn my grave To a blaze of joy and a crash of song . 11 . Witness beforehand ! Off I trip On a safe path gay through the flowers you flung : My very name made great by your lip , And my heart a - glow with the good I know Of a perfect ...
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Page 150 - No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 71 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws: that made them, and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 73 - All we have willed, or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 77 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 74 - And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days? Have we withered or agonized? Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might issue thence? Why rushed the discords in but that harmony should be prized?
Page 79 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 73 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 86 - Fool ! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall ; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure : What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops : Potter and clay endure.
Page 81 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 101 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, — believe the aged friend, — Is just our chance o...