Not for a moment could I now behold Then, Beaumont, Friend! who would have been the friend O'tis a passionate Work!-yet wise and well, And this huge Castle, standing here sublime, -Farewell, farewell the heart that lives alone, Is to be pitied; for 'tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, William Wordsworth (1770-1850] WILLIAM BLAKE [1757-1827] HE came to the desert of London town, Gray miles long; He wandered up and he wandered down, nds and thousands of human kind E brick and stone: f and some were blind, e alone. hour came; he died alone: from the desert wide, found at the Throne. James Thomson [1834-1882] Therefore this one prayer I breathe,— Who have loved you with such love: Yields their free souls no fit graves. James Thomson (1834-1882] ROBERT BURNS [1759-1796] ALL Scottish legends did his fancy fashion, All airs that richly flow, Laughing with frolic, tremulous with passion, Ballads whose beauties years have long been stealing And left few links of gold, Under his quaint and subtle touch of healing Grew fairer, not less old. Gray Cluden, and the vestal's choral cadence, His spell awoke therewith; Till boatmen hung their oars to hear the maidens His, too, the strains of battle nobly coming Such as the Highlander shall oft be humming Before some famous fight. Nor only these for him the hawthorn hoary The "crimson-tippèd daisy" wore fresh glory, From the "wee cowering beastie" he could borrow A moral strain sublime, A noble tenderness of human sorrow, In wondrous wealth of rhyme. ut of our human sight ith love and each with wonder: with his mouth of thunder, Fords and mantled in the might gnificence of night; could smite the night in sunder, no light were thereunder, of loving-kindness light. hought with eyes of fire teousness with deep desire n before her and above, to steer by; but more sweet veliest lamp for earthly feet, hildren, and their love. ernon Charles Swinburne [1837-1909] NG OF THE TOMB OF HARLEMAGNE [742-814] d gloom of Aachen's aisle any's imperial lord, melancholy smile, here, fitly to record by a single word, o-Magno." Regal style that name such thoughts restored ke nobler, men the while. |