Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth CenturyScott, Webster & Geary, 1862 - 490 páginas |
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... Spirit .. 402 Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre ... 404 WOLFE , CHARLES ( born 1791 , died The Hebrew Mother 405 1823 ) 348 The Graves of a Household 407 Song ib . The Treasures of the Deep 408 The Burial of Sir John Moore 349 Death Song ...
... Spirit .. 402 Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre ... 404 WOLFE , CHARLES ( born 1791 , died The Hebrew Mother 405 1823 ) 348 The Graves of a Household 407 Song ib . The Treasures of the Deep 408 The Burial of Sir John Moore 349 Death Song ...
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... spirit of English poetry , with a few bright exceptions , presents a singularly faded and exhausted appearance during the greater part of the eighteenth century . Poetry , indeed , had almost dwindled into a mere mechanical process of ...
... spirit of English poetry , with a few bright exceptions , presents a singularly faded and exhausted appearance during the greater part of the eighteenth century . Poetry , indeed , had almost dwindled into a mere mechanical process of ...
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... spirit of the classical poetry was fated to expire . And first of these , we may mention the popular feeling which , after having been lulled so long by those monotonous narcotic strains , began to arouse itself , and crave for ...
... spirit of the classical poetry was fated to expire . And first of these , we may mention the popular feeling which , after having been lulled so long by those monotonous narcotic strains , began to arouse itself , and crave for ...
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... spirit , but even the dialect , of Burns was endeavoured to be imitated . Still , however , the influence of such minds as Cowper and Burns would have been insufficient to produce a general change , had it not been for that great ...
... spirit , but even the dialect , of Burns was endeavoured to be imitated . Still , however , the influence of such minds as Cowper and Burns would have been insufficient to produce a general change , had it not been for that great ...
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... spirit of her people was aroused to thought and inquiry , she advanced in consequence , with all the freshness and buoyancy of a first existence , to the creation of a national poetry ; and instead of taking their models from the ...
... spirit of her people was aroused to thought and inquiry , she advanced in consequence , with all the freshness and buoyancy of a first existence , to the creation of a national poetry ; and instead of taking their models from the ...
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Página 109 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity ; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Página 403 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, — While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue...
Página 110 - We in thought will join your throng. Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May!
Página 165 - Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate?
Página 110 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake To perish never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man, nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather.
Página 299 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Página 236 - YE Mariners of England That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze — Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe ! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow, — While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Página 104 - My brother John and I. And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side.' ' How many are you, then,' said I, * If they two are in heaven ?' Quick was the little Maid's reply,
Página 103 - Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be?" "How many? seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me. "And where are they, I pray you tell?
Página 163 - That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up at once In green and sunny glade, There came and looked him in the face An angel beautiful and bright, And that he knew it was a fiend...