The Children's Garland from the Best PoetsMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1871 - 344 pages |
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... in death below , His voice no longer heard . He called aloud : ' Say , father , say If yet my task is done ! ' He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son . ' Speak , father ! ' once again he cried D 2 Garland 35.
... in death below , His voice no longer heard . He called aloud : ' Say , father , say If yet my task is done ! ' He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son . ' Speak , father ! ' once again he cried D 2 Garland 35.
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... voice is shrill . My dog , so altered in his taste , Quits mutton - bones on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks , how odd their flight , They imitate the gliding kite , And seem precipitate to fall , As if they felt the piercing ball ...
... voice is shrill . My dog , so altered in his taste , Quits mutton - bones on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks , how odd their flight , They imitate the gliding kite , And seem precipitate to fall , As if they felt the piercing ball ...
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... voice , and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence , -ever that glance O'er its white edge at me , his own master , askance ! And the thick heavy spume - flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook ...
... voice , and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence , -ever that glance O'er its white edge at me , his own master , askance ! And the thick heavy spume - flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook ...
Page 39
... voice is shrill . My dog , so altered in his taste , Quits mutton - bones on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks , how odd their flight , They imitate the gliding kite , And seem precipitate to fall , As if they felt the piercing ball ...
... voice is shrill . My dog , so altered in his taste , Quits mutton - bones on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks , how odd their flight , They imitate the gliding kite , And seem precipitate to fall , As if they felt the piercing ball ...
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... voice , and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence , -ever that glance O'er its white edge at me , his own master , askance ! And the thick heavy spume - flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook ...
... voice , and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence , -ever that glance O'er its white edge at me , his own master , askance ! And the thick heavy spume - flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook ...
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Page 155 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 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?
Page 197 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 195 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 55 - Out of the sea came he ! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Page 263 - Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's watery beams...
Page 212 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 199 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 21 - I made a garland for her head, And bracelets too, and fragrant zone ; She look'd at me as she did love, And made sweet moan. She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew ; And sure in language strange she said, I love thee true.
Page 328 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail, And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances uplifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 200 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!