The Oxford Book of Victorian VerseArthur Quiller-Couch Clarendon Press, 1913 - 1023 pages |
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... o'er the stream to glide . And yet there have been days of yore , When pretty maids their posies bore . To crown its prow , its deck to trim , And freighted a whole world of whim . A thousand stories it could tell , - But it loves ...
... o'er the stream to glide . And yet there have been days of yore , When pretty maids their posies bore . To crown its prow , its deck to trim , And freighted a whole world of whim . A thousand stories it could tell , - But it loves ...
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... you're writing upon stone ! ' I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away ; what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name again , S. The Gifts Return'd U must give back , ' WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.
... you're writing upon stone ! ' I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away ; what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name again , S. The Gifts Return'd U must give back , ' WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.
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... o'er the vernal ground Faint resemblances around , Nature ! I will tell thee yet There's but one white violet . 9 . Rose Aylmer H , what avails the sceptred race ! Ah , what the form divine ! AH What every virtue , every grace ! Rose ...
... o'er the vernal ground Faint resemblances around , Nature ! I will tell thee yet There's but one white violet . 9 . Rose Aylmer H , what avails the sceptred race ! Ah , what the form divine ! AH What every virtue , every grace ! Rose ...
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... o'er thy sleep . O peaceful night ! O envied rest ! Thou wilt not ever see her weep . AW To his Verse WAY my verse ! and never fear , As men before such beauty do : On you she will not look severe , She will not turn her eyes from you ...
... o'er thy sleep . O peaceful night ! O envied rest ! Thou wilt not ever see her weep . AW To his Verse WAY my verse ! and never fear , As men before such beauty do : On you she will not look severe , She will not turn her eyes from you ...
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... O'er its sad gloom still comes and goes The mingled wail of friends and foes , Borne to the land which no one knows . Why shrieks for help yon wretch , who goes With millions , from a world of woes , Unto the land which no one knows ...
... O'er its sad gloom still comes and goes The mingled wail of friends and foes , Borne to the land which no one knows . Why shrieks for help yon wretch , who goes With millions , from a world of woes , Unto the land which no one knows ...
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Page 105 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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Page 51 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 328 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Page 174 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. / was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my ANNABEL LEE — .With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 175 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Anabel Lee: For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...
Page 330 - MINE eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord : He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword : His truth is marching on.
Page 286 - I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past.
Page 370 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 232 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.