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... hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen , With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean : This is not solitude ; ' tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms ...
... hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen , With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean : This is not solitude ; ' tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms ...
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... hath ever been ; But his little heart's a fountain pure of kind and tender feeling , And his every look's a gleam of light , rich depths of love revealing . When he walks with me , the countryfolk who pass us in the street Will speak ...
... hath ever been ; But his little heart's a fountain pure of kind and tender feeling , And his every look's a gleam of light , rich depths of love revealing . When he walks with me , the countryfolk who pass us in the street Will speak ...
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... hath brought many captives home to Rome , Whose ransoms did the general coffer fill ; Did this in Cæsar seem ambitious ? When that the poor hath cried , Cæsar hath wept : Ambition should be made of sterner stuff . Yet Brutus says he was ...
... hath brought many captives home to Rome , Whose ransoms did the general coffer fill ; Did this in Cæsar seem ambitious ? When that the poor hath cried , Cæsar hath wept : Ambition should be made of sterner stuff . Yet Brutus says he was ...
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... hath stole My kindly warmth away , And dimmed the tablet of the soul ; Yet when , with lordly sway , This brow the pluméd helm displayed , That guides the warrior throng , Or beauty's thrilling fingers strayed These manly locks among ...
... hath stole My kindly warmth away , And dimmed the tablet of the soul ; Yet when , with lordly sway , This brow the pluméd helm displayed , That guides the warrior throng , Or beauty's thrilling fingers strayed These manly locks among ...
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... hath in secrecy long married , This day was view'd in open , as his queen , Going to chapel ; and the voice is now Only about her coronation . Wol . There was the weight that pulled me down . O Cromwell , The king has gone beyond me ...
... hath in secrecy long married , This day was view'd in open , as his queen , Going to chapel ; and the voice is now Only about her coronation . Wol . There was the weight that pulled me down . O Cromwell , The king has gone beyond me ...
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arms beautiful snow bells beneath BERNARDO DEL CARPIO breast breath bright brow Brutus Charles Mackay cheek child cold cried dark dead dear death deep door dread dreams earth eyes face fair FAKENHAM father fear fell flowers gazed goblet grave hand hast hath hear heard heart heathen Chinee heaven HERCULANEUM hope Horace Smith Inchcape Rock John's eve KING ROBERT kiss knew lady light lips living Lochinvar look Lord Lord Lytton maiden mighty morning mother ne'er Netherby never nevermore night Numps o'er ocean once ORATOR PUFF ORISKA Pay your tithes Pigswiddy PYRAMUS AND THISBE Quoth Quoth the Raven ring ROBERT OF SICILY round seeing's not believing sigh sleep smile soul sound spoke stood sweet tears tell thee thine thou thought throne Twas Valmond voice wave wild woman of mind words young youth
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Page 61 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his...
Page 18 - Who, you all know, are honourable men : I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you, Than I will wrong such honourable men.
Page 153 - or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door: — Darkness there and nothing more.
Page 153 - Lenore!' Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before 'Surely...
Page 153 - I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 235 - IT was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "Tis some poor fellow's...
Page 17 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause, till it come back to me.
Page 154 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, — But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press ah nevermore ! Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch!
Page 155 - 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...
Page 153 - 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.