Current Literature, Volume 22Current Literature Publishing Company, 1897 |
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... asked to confine himself somehow , somewhere , within terrestrial limits , he might find a point from which to draw a few venturesome comparisons . Suppose , for instance , he were required to name the best ten sonnets in the language ...
... asked to confine himself somehow , somewhere , within terrestrial limits , he might find a point from which to draw a few venturesome comparisons . Suppose , for instance , he were required to name the best ten sonnets in the language ...
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... asked of their affairs , and being told that they rode in search of the Sancgrael , she laughed again , saying : " Silly knights all , that seek it before you be bearded ! For three of you must faint and die on the quest , and you , sir ...
... asked of their affairs , and being told that they rode in search of the Sancgrael , she laughed again , saying : " Silly knights all , that seek it before you be bearded ! For three of you must faint and die on the quest , and you , sir ...
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... asked the knight . He , too , was past his youth , but his face shone with a marvellous strange glory . " I am young Sir Dinar , that was made a knight of the Round Table but five days before Pentecost . And I know thee . Thou art Sir ...
... asked the knight . He , too , was past his youth , but his face shone with a marvellous strange glory . " I am young Sir Dinar , that was made a knight of the Round Table but five days before Pentecost . And I know thee . Thou art Sir ...
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... asked was as to how they could manage to see the " Maid of Athens . " Mrs. Black , who was sitting in the parlor , immediately slipped from the room by another way , and for several years thereafter did not darken Mrs. Hill's door . She ...
... asked was as to how they could manage to see the " Maid of Athens . " Mrs. Black , who was sitting in the parlor , immediately slipped from the room by another way , and for several years thereafter did not darken Mrs. Hill's door . She ...
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... asked , as Mr. Zilliacus lighted a cigarette .- " That they would have a big future if their resources were worked by Europeans , " he replied promptly . " The country is magnificent , with a soil like garden mould . You can imagine its ...
... asked , as Mr. Zilliacus lighted a cigarette .- " That they would have a big future if their resources were worked by Europeans , " he replied promptly . " The country is magnificent , with a soil like garden mould . You can imagine its ...
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Page 84 - 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.
Page 370 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 285 - Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget...
Page 285 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget— lest we forget!
Page 180 - Tread softly — bow the head — in reverent silence bow ; — no passing bell doth toll, yet an immortal soul is passing now. Stranger ! however great, with lowly reverence bow : there's one in that poor shed — one by that paltry bed — greater than thou.
Page 47 - Over dews, over sands, Will I fly for your weal: Your holy, delicate white hands Shall girdle me with steel. At home, in your emerald bowers, From morning's dawn till e'en, You'll pray for me, my flower of flowers, My Dark Rosaleen!
Page 47 - I could kneel all night in prayer, To heal your many ills! And one . . . beamy smile from you Would float like light between My toils and me, my own, my true, My Dark Rosaleen! My fond Rosaleen! Would give me life and soul anew, A second life, a soul anew, My Dark Rosaleen!
Page 102 - Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain. Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers, Maiden most perfect, lady of light, With a noise of winds and many rivers, With a...
Page 180 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own ; Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes, Then will pure light around thy path be shed, And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone.
Page 227 - O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says, 'Haste and come to me!