Narrative and elegiac poemsMacmillan, 1869 |
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... plain , Silent the swaths ! the ringing wain , The mower's cry , the dog's alarms , All housed within the sleeping farms ! The business of the day is done , The last - left haymaker is gone . And from the thyme upon the height , And ...
... plain , Silent the swaths ! the ringing wain , The mower's cry , the dog's alarms , All housed within the sleeping farms ! The business of the day is done , The last - left haymaker is gone . And from the thyme upon the height , And ...
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... plain , where the dead age Did its now silent warfare wage-- O'er that wide plain , now wrapt in gloom , Where many a splendour finds its tomb , Many spent fames and fallen nights- The one or two immortal lights Rise slowly up into the ...
... plain , where the dead age Did its now silent warfare wage-- O'er that wide plain , now wrapt in gloom , Where many a splendour finds its tomb , Many spent fames and fallen nights- The one or two immortal lights Rise slowly up into the ...
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... plain Clearing a stage , Scattering the past about , Comes the new age ! Bards make new poems , Thinkers new schools , Statesmen new systems , Critics new rules ! All things begin again ; Life is their prize ; Earth with their deeds ...
... plain Clearing a stage , Scattering the past about , Comes the new age ! Bards make new poems , Thinkers new schools , Statesmen new systems , Critics new rules ! All things begin again ; Life is their prize ; Earth with their deeds ...
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... , we were Parts of a single continent ! Now round us spreads the watery plain- Oh might our marges meet again ! [ DRAM . & LYR . ] H Who order'd , that their longing's fire Should be , SWITZERLAND . 97 To Marguerite Continued.
... , we were Parts of a single continent ! Now round us spreads the watery plain- Oh might our marges meet again ! [ DRAM . & LYR . ] H Who order'd , that their longing's fire Should be , SWITZERLAND . 97 To Marguerite Continued.
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... plain , So on the sea of life , alas ! Man nears man , meets , and leaves again . I knew it when my life was young ! I feel it still , now youth is o'er ! The mists are on the mountains hung , And Marguerite I shall see no more . URANIA ...
... plain , So on the sea of life , alas ! Man nears man , meets , and leaves again . I knew it when my life was young ! I feel it still , now youth is o'er ! The mists are on the mountains hung , And Marguerite I shall see no more . URANIA ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Agrigentum Alpine anchorites Antigone behold bliss born breast breath bright Callicles calm Catana Children of men clear Creon cries dark dead death deep divine doth DRAM dream earth Empedocles eternal Etna eyes fair fame fate Fausta feel flow gaze gleam glens Glion gloom glow Gods grass grave grey hath hear heart Heaven hills hour human immortal KENSINGTON GARDENS LAOCOÖN life's light live lonely look'd lyre Marguerite Marsyas mind mists morning mountains murmur Muses mute night o'er Obermann once pain Parmenides pass pass'd past Pausanias Phrygian pines poet quiet repose round scorn Senancour shining silent smile solitude soul spell spirit spring stars stream strife sweet Theban Thebes thee thine things thou art thought thy tablets Vevey voice wandering waves weary wind ye stars youth Zeus
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Página 200 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides ; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.
Página 108 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 34 - I say : Fear not ! Life still Leaves human effort scope. But, since life teems with ill, Nurse no extravagant hope ; Because thou must not dream, thou need'st not then despair ! A long pause.
Página 228 - Children of men ! the unseen Power, whose eye For ever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. "Which has not taught weak wills how much they can? Which has not fall'n on the dry heart like rain ? Which has not cried to sunk, self-weary man : Thou must be born again...
Página 232 - For he pursued a lonely road, His eyes on Nature's plan ; Neither made man too much a God, Nor God too much a man.
Página 108 - Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Página 198 - Weary of myself and sick of asking What I am and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And a look of passionate desire O'er the sea and to the stars I send : "Ye who from my childhood up have calmed me, Calm me, Ah, compose me to the end ! "Ah, once more...
Página 219 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride — I come to shed them at their side.
Página 115 - One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, One lesson which in every wind is blown, One lesson of two duties kept at one Though the loud world proclaim their enmity — Of toil unsever'd from tranquillity! Of labour, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplished in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry!
Página 220 - Here leave us to die out with these Last of the people who believe ! Silent, while years engrave the brow ; Silent — the best are silent now.