Phantasmion: A Fairy Tale

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Henry S. King & Company, 1874 - 348 páginas

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Página 126 - Hicjacet GVLIELMVS BROWN, Vir nulla non donandus lauru.' SARA COLERIDGE 2/2 O SLEEP, my babe, hear not the rippling wave, Nor feel the breeze that round thee lingering strays, To drink thy balmy breath, And sigh one long farewell. Soon shall it mourn above thy wat'ry bed, And whisper to me on the wave-beat shore, Deep murm'ring in reproach, Thy sad untimely fate. Ere those dear eyes had open'd on the light, In vain to plead, thy coming life was sold, O!
Página 311 - While buoyantly he rushes o'er the lawn, Dream not of clouds to stain his manhood's dawn, Nor dim that sight with tears. No cloud he spies in brightly glowing hours, But feels as if the newly vested bowers For him could never fade : Too well we know that vernal pleasures fleet, But having him, so gladsome, fair, and sweet, Our loss is overpaid. « Amid the balmiest flowers that earth can give Some bitter drops distil, and all that live A mingled portion share ; But, while he learns these truths which...
Página 171 - False Love, too long thou hast delay'd, Too late I make my choice ; Yet win for me that precious maid, And bid my heart rejoice — Then shall mine eyes shoot youthful fire, My cheek with triumph glow, And other maids that glance desire Which I on one bestow. Make her with smile divinely bland Beam sunshine o'er my face, And Time shall touch with gentlest hand What she hath deign'd to grace ; O'er scanty locks full wreaths I'll wear, No wrinkled brow to shade, Her joy will smooth the furrows there...
Página ix - Tell him that airy dreams are sacred duty, Bring better wealth than aught his toils command — Toils fraught with mickle harm. But if thou meet some spirit high and tender, On blessed works and noblest love intent, Tell him that airy dreams of nature's splendour, With graver thoughts and hallowed musings blent, Prove no too earthly charm.
Página 224 - E'en in swift course the river seems to rest, Blue sky, bright bloom and verdure imag'd on its breast. And, whilst with thee I roam through regions bright Beneath kind love's serene and gladsome sky, A thousand happy things that seek the light, Till now in darkest shadow forc'd to lie, Up through the illumin'd waters nimbly run, To show their forms and hues in the all revealing sun.
Página 260 - ... peace molest, With them she frowns, gives back the lightning's glare, Then rages wildly in the troubled air. " This calmer lake, which potent spells protect, Lies dimly slumbering through the fires of day, And when yon skies with chaste resplendence decked, Shine forth in all their stateliest array, O then she wakes to glitter bright as they, And view the face of heaven's benignant queen Still looking down on hers with smile serene. " What cruel cares the maiden's heart assail, Who loves, but...
Página 223 - Forcing mid rocks and stones my toilsome way, A scanty brook in wandering well nigh spent; But now with thee, rich stream, conjoin'd I stray, Through golden meads the river sweeps along, Murmuring its deep, full joy in gentlest undersong. I crept thro...
Página 216 - YON changeful cloud will soon thy aspect wear — So bright it grows : — and now, by light winds shaken O ever seen yet ne'er to be o'ertaken ! Those waving branches seem thy billowy hair. The cypress glades recall thy pensive air ; Slow rills, that wind like snakes amid the grass, Thine eye's mild sparkle fling me as they pass, Yet murmuring cry, This fruitless quest forbear! Nay e'en amid the cataract's loud storm, Where foamy torrents from the crags are leaping, Methinks I catch swift glimpses...
Página 63 - Shoots through my veins a keen and liquid flame, That melts each fibre of my wasting frame One voice alone, one voice alone, I pine to hear ; But, when its meek mellifluous tone Usurps mine ear, Those slavish chains about my soul are wound, Which ne'er, till death itself, can be unbound.
Página 211 - No youthful kine, tho' fresh and fair, Her vainly searching eyes engage ; No pleasant fields relieve her care, No murmuring streams her grief assuage. Song HE came unlook'd for, undesir'd, A sun-rise in the northern sky : More than the brightest dawn admir'd, To shine and then for ever fly. His love, conferr'd without a claim, Perchance was like the fitful blaze, Which lives to light a steadier flame, And, while that strengthens, fast decays. Glad fawn along the forest springing, Gay birds that breeze-like...

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