Pictures of Life. [In verse.]Cathrall and Beresford, 1850 - 168 páginas |
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Amid ancient awhile Bacchus Band of Brothers beams beseem blessed blest blood book of Job bower breast breath bright calm charm cheerful child dark death delight Delirium tremens divine doth draught dread dreams drink e'er earth Elijah Ridings eternal eyes Failsworth fame fancy farewell feast flowers gentle gloomy glorious glory glow grace grave green hand happy hath heart heaven holy hope human humble immortal labour Lancashire life's light Manchester Mephistopheles mercy Miles Platting mind mortal mourn muse native ne'er never Newton Newton Heath night o'er pass'd peace Perchance Poet poor pure Rechab reign o'er rude sacred scarlet riders scene shade Shakspere sigh Sir Benjamin Heywood sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit swan sweet sweet child tears Temperance Temperance Band thee thine Thou art throne treasure truth unto voice Wickliffe wild wine words young youth
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Página 2 - O BLITHE New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O Cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near. Though babbling only to the Vale, Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. " Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring ! Even yet thou art to me No...
Página 161 - ... he was seized with a fever, and shortly after •died, in the thirty-third year of his age, and the thirteenth of his reign.
Página i - You mighty lords, that with respected grace Do at the stern of fair example stand, And all the body of this populace Guide with the turning of your hand ; Keep a right course ; bear up from all disgrace ; Observe the point of glory to our land : Hold up disgraced Knowledge from the ground ; Keep Virtue in request ; give worth her due, Let not Neglect with barbarous means confound So fair a good, to bring in night a-new ; Be not, O be not...
Página 36 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Página 2 - To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed for, never seen ! And I can listen to thee yet ! Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Página 137 - Aye, any an humble, striving way, Than do what shuns the light of day. Behold the rush-cart, and the throng Of lads and lasses pass along! Now watch the nimble morris-dancers, Those blithe, fantastic antic-prancers, Bedeck...
Página 19 - How calm and quiet a delight Is it, alone, To read, and meditate, and write, By none offended, and offending none ! To walk, ride, sit, or sleep at one's own ease, And, pleasing a man's self, none other to displease.
Página 167 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not...
Página 139 - Away with care, and doleful thinking; The cup goes round ; what hearty drinking! "While many a youth the lips is smacking, And the two drivers' whips are cracking : Now, strike up music ; the old tune ; And louder, quicker, old bassoon ; Come, bustle lads, for one dance more ; And then cross-morris three times o'er. Another...
Página 60 - I GOT me flowers to strew Thy way ; I got me boughs off many a tree : But Thou wast up by break of day, And broughtst thy sweets along with Thee.