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... POETRY OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD , 1785-1832 THE PROSE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD , 1785-1832 MID - NINETEENTH CENTURY PROSE , 1832-1881 255 • 300 · 328 • • XV . MID - NINETEENTH CENTURY POETRY , 1832-1881 . XVI . MID - NINETEENTH CENTURY ...
... POETRY OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD , 1785-1832 THE PROSE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD , 1785-1832 MID - NINETEENTH CENTURY PROSE , 1832-1881 255 • 300 · 328 • • XV . MID - NINETEENTH CENTURY POETRY , 1832-1881 . XVI . MID - NINETEENTH CENTURY ...
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... POETRY . Beowulf : style ; plot ; background ; society . Minor Poems . CHRISTIAN LITERATURE . The Story of Cadmon . Cædmonian Poems . Cynewulf . Alfred . Anglo - Saxon Chronicle . The Battle of Brunanburh . The Battle of Maldon ...
... POETRY . Beowulf : style ; plot ; background ; society . Minor Poems . CHRISTIAN LITERATURE . The Story of Cadmon . Cædmonian Poems . Cynewulf . Alfred . Anglo - Saxon Chronicle . The Battle of Brunanburh . The Battle of Maldon ...
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... POETRY Beowulf . We know that the Teutonic peoples of the Conti- nent had minstrels who sang at the courts of their kings heroic songs celebrating great deeds in war . Compositions of this kind were brought to Britain by the Angles and ...
... POETRY Beowulf . We know that the Teutonic peoples of the Conti- nent had minstrels who sang at the courts of their kings heroic songs celebrating great deeds in war . Compositions of this kind were brought to Britain by the Angles and ...
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... poet of Widsith , relate his forced wanderings from hall to hall seeking reward . Poetry was already an honorable profession . CHRISTIAN LITERATURE The Story of Cædmon . More voluminous are the survivals of the Christian poetry ...
... poet of Widsith , relate his forced wanderings from hall to hall seeking reward . Poetry was already an honorable profession . CHRISTIAN LITERATURE The Story of Cædmon . More voluminous are the survivals of the Christian poetry ...
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... poet's inspiration . There has always seemed to men to be something supernatural in this , and the vision of the cowherd is an attempt to express the divine origin of poetry . The story also gives us a vivid picture of the way in which ...
... poet's inspiration . There has always seemed to men to be something supernatural in this , and the vision of the cowherd is an attempt to express the divine origin of poetry . The story also gives us a vivid picture of the way in which ...
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Page 260 - Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings?— Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 199 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 160 - Ah ! who hath reft,' quoth he, ' my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : ' How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies...
Page 359 - But such a tide as, moving, seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark ! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark ; For tho...
Page 228 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 153 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. " Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. " Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 271 - Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. '"Tell me, thou bonny bird. When shall I marry me?' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.' '"Who makes the bridal bed, Birdie, say truly?' — 'The grey-headed sexton, That delves the grave duly. "The glow-worm o'er grave and stone Shall light thee steady; The owl from the steeple sing, 'Welcome, proud lady.
Page 274 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 264 - Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; sometimes all little birds that are, how they seemed to fill the sea and air with their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, now like a lonely flute; and now it is an angel's song, that makes the heavens be mute.
Page 180 - Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.