A Complete Collection of the English Poems: Which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of CambridgeMacmillan, 1859 - 351 pages |
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Æsir amid Baldur beam beauty beneath blaze brave breast breath breeze bright brow burst calm CHANCELLOR'S GOLD MEDAL charms clouds coursers dark death deep dream Druid E'en earth echoes Elivagar fair falchion fame fate fear fire flame fled gale gaze Gioll gleam gloom glorious glory glow grave hand hath heart heaven hills holy hope hour isle land light linger lonely Luther rose lyre mighty mournful Muse neath night o'er ocean pale Palmyra Peace Peyrouse plain pride proud reign roll Rome rose round scene shade shore shrine sigh silent skies sleep slumber smile song soul spirit star stern storm stream sweet swell tears tempest thee thine thou thought thro throne tide tomb towers trembling TRINITY COLLEGE TRINITY HALL Twas vale Venice Vigrid voice wake Walmer Castle warrior wave weep wild winds wings
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Page 164 - And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Page 258 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
Page 118 - The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 164 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken— The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Page 232 - But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee.
Page 193 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Page 180 - But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world. With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.
Page 318 - Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Page 180 - God, and could not out of the good things that are seen, know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster; but deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the goiN which govern the world.