The Rival Collection of Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools, Colleges and Public ReadersJ. W. Schermerhorn & Company, 1872 - 504 páginas |
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... hair was yet unshorn , and silken curls Were floating round the tassels , as they swayed To the admitted air , as glossy now As when , in hours of gentle dalliance , bathing The snowy fingers of Judea's girls . His helm was at his feet ...
... hair was yet unshorn , and silken curls Were floating round the tassels , as they swayed To the admitted air , as glossy now As when , in hours of gentle dalliance , bathing The snowy fingers of Judea's girls . His helm was at his feet ...
Página 64
... hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb , My proud boy Absalom ! " Cold is thy brow , my son ! and I am chill , As to my bosom I have tried to press thee . How was I wont to feel my pulses thrill , Like a rich harp - string ...
... hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb , My proud boy Absalom ! " Cold is thy brow , my son ! and I am chill , As to my bosom I have tried to press thee . How was I wont to feel my pulses thrill , Like a rich harp - string ...
Página 83
... hair . THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH . - LONGFELLOW . [ NDER a spreading chestnut - tree , UND The village smithy stands ; The smith , a mighty man is he , With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron ...
... hair . THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH . - LONGFELLOW . [ NDER a spreading chestnut - tree , UND The village smithy stands ; The smith , a mighty man is he , With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron ...
Página 111
... hair , The depth of her eye's matchless blue , When she laid her cheek on my shoulder , and said , " Hurrah ! that's bully for you ! " I started in terror , but managed to keep From showing my intense surprise , And pressed my lips ...
... hair , The depth of her eye's matchless blue , When she laid her cheek on my shoulder , and said , " Hurrah ! that's bully for you ! " I started in terror , but managed to keep From showing my intense surprise , And pressed my lips ...
Página 130
... hair , And a voice like the carol of some wild bird- The sweetest voice that ever was heard- Calls me many a dear pet name , Till my heart and spirits are all aflame ; And tells me of such unbounded love , And bids me come up to their ...
... hair , And a voice like the carol of some wild bird- The sweetest voice that ever was heard- Calls me many a dear pet name , Till my heart and spirits are all aflame ; And tells me of such unbounded love , And bids me come up to their ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
arms Babie Bell BARBARA FRIETCHIE BATTLE OF FONTENOY beautiful bells Belshazzar beneath BENEDICT ARNOLD bless blood blow blue bosom brave breast breath Bregenz bride bright brow Cæsar CATARACT OF LODORE cheek child cold cried dark dead dear death deep dream dying earth eyes face fair father fell fire flag Fontenoy gazed gold grave gray hair hand hath head hear heard heart heaven honor King kiss land Lars Porsena light lips live Lochinvar look Lord maid mother never Nevermore night o'er once pale Pompey poor pray Quoth the raven Rome rose round Sandalphon sare Scrooge Shamus shore sigh sleep smile soldier song soul SPARTACUS stars stood sweet sword tears tell Tennessee thee there's thou thought Twas voice waves Weller wery wife wild wind wonder word young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 275 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Página 16 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Página 397 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 298 - To die — to sleep. To sleep — perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time...
Página 430 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Página 121 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 392 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 422 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 30 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 412 - ... the vile strength he wields for earth's destruction thou dost all despise, spurning him from thy bosom to the skies: and send'st him, shivering, in thy playful spray, and howling, to his Gods, where haply lies his petty hope in some near port or bay; then dashest him again to earth — there let him lay!