The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, and Arranged with Notes by Francis T. Palgrave |
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... hath taught me thus to ruminate- That Time will come and take my Love away : -This thought is as a death , which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose . W. Shakespeare VI 2 Since brass , nor stone , nor earth , nor ...
... hath taught me thus to ruminate- That Time will come and take my Love away : -This thought is as a death , which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose . W. Shakespeare VI 2 Since brass , nor stone , nor earth , nor ...
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... hath charm'd me Long long to sing by rote , Fancying that that harm'd me : Yet when this thought doth come ' Love is the perfect sum Of all delight , ' I have no other choice Either for pen or voice To sing or write . O Love ! they ...
... hath charm'd me Long long to sing by rote , Fancying that that harm'd me : Yet when this thought doth come ' Love is the perfect sum Of all delight , ' I have no other choice Either for pen or voice To sing or write . O Love ! they ...
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... hath my absence been From Thee , the pleasure of the feeting went ! What freezings have I felt . what dark days seeT What old December's bareness everywhere ! And get this time removed was summer's time The teeming autumn , big with ...
... hath my absence been From Thee , the pleasure of the feeting went ! What freezings have I felt . what dark days seeT What old December's bareness everywhere ! And get this time removed was summer's time The teeming autumn , big with ...
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... Hath motion , and mine eye may be deceived : For fear of which , hear this , thou age unbred , — Ere you were born , was beauty's summer dead . W. Shakespeare XIX ROSALINE Like to the clear in highest sphere Where all imperial glory ...
... Hath motion , and mine eye may be deceived : For fear of which , hear this , thou age unbred , — Ere you were born , was beauty's summer dead . W. Shakespeare XIX ROSALINE Like to the clear in highest sphere Where all imperial glory ...
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... hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines , And often is his gold complexion dimm'd : And every fair from fair sometime declines , By chance , or nature's changing course , untrimm'd . But thy eternal summer ...
... hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines , And often is his gold complexion dimm'd : And every fair from fair sometime declines , By chance , or nature's changing course , untrimm'd . But thy eternal summer ...
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Anon Arethuse beauty beneath birds bonnie bower breast breath bright Brignall cheek clouds County Guy dark dead dear death deep delight dost doth dream drest earth ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA eyes fair Fancy fear flowers frae gentle glory golden Gray green H. F. Lyte happy hast hath Hazeldean hear heard heart heaven hill hour John Anderson Kirconnell kiss leaves light live look'd Lord Lord Byron Love's Lycidas lyre maid mind morn mountains Muse ne'er never night numbers Nymph o'er P. B. Shelley passion Philomela pleasure poem Poetry poets Rosaline roses round seem'd shade Shakespeare sigh silent sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit Spring star stream sweet tears tell thee There's thine thou art thought tree Twas voice waly waly waves weep white-thorn wild winds wings Wordsworth Yarrow youth
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Page 75 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 10 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 279 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will:...
Page 68 - Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred...
Page 340 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong: I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity, And with the heart of May...
Page 2 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 171 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride...
Page 323 - Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams, Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them!
Page 172 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 330 - Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!