The explanatory poetical reader, ed. by W. MoffattWilliam Moffatt (publisher) 1883 |
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... fell hissing in the brine , And the billows frothed like yeast . Down came the storm , and smote amain1 The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused , like a frighted steed , Then leaped her cable's length . " Come hither ...
... fell hissing in the brine , And the billows frothed like yeast . Down came the storm , and smote amain1 The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused , like a frighted steed , Then leaped her cable's length . " Come hither ...
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... fell , They did not move the Inchcape Bell . The good old Abbot2 of Aberbrothok Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock ; On a buoys in the storm it floated and swung , And over the waves its warning rung . When the rock was hid by ...
... fell , They did not move the Inchcape Bell . The good old Abbot2 of Aberbrothok Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock ; On a buoys in the storm it floated and swung , And over the waves its warning rung . When the rock was hid by ...
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... Fell sounder to sleep than was usual before , And did not awake for a century 5 or more ; But had a sweet dream , as I rather believe : - Methought it was light , and a fine summer's eve ; And I in some garden deliciously fed In the ...
... Fell sounder to sleep than was usual before , And did not awake for a century 5 or more ; But had a sweet dream , as I rather believe : - Methought it was light , and a fine summer's eve ; And I in some garden deliciously fed In the ...
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... fell . Speak gently to the erring one ; Oh , do not thou forget , However deeply stained by sin , He is thy brother yet . Heir of the self - same heritage , 3 Child of the self - same God , He hath but stumbled in the path Thou hast in ...
... fell . Speak gently to the erring one ; Oh , do not thou forget , However deeply stained by sin , He is thy brother yet . Heir of the self - same heritage , 3 Child of the self - same God , He hath but stumbled in the path Thou hast in ...
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... fell , mortally wounded by a cannon ball . The poem is one of the most affecting of its kind ever written . It impresses one with the reality of the scene , and makes the reader not only a spectator , but a sharer in the mournful ...
... fell , mortally wounded by a cannon ball . The poem is one of the most affecting of its kind ever written . It impresses one with the reality of the scene , and makes the reader not only a spectator , but a sharer in the mournful ...
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Страница 13 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Страница 72 - 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 . For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Страница 62 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Страница 17 - Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL.
Страница 9 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw ; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array...
Страница 75 - I long woo'd your daughter, my suit you denied — Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide — And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland, more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Страница 76 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Страница 43 - And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Страница 63 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Страница 62 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering