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Page 27 - hat cause withholds you then, to mourn for him ? 0 judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Csesar. And I must pause till it come back to me ****** But yesterday the word of Csesar might Have stood against the
Page 117 - but his place is important in literature, because it was he who brought back poetry from men and the capital to nature and her teachings. THE HYMN OF THE SEASONS. THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing SPRING
Page 311 - ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Eound many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That
Page 295 - Dark-heaving ;—boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity—the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a
Page 211 - And aft he's prest, and aft he ca's it guid; The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' the bell. The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace, The
Page 31 - The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou
Page 263 - strong, 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' Doth every Beast keep holiday;— Thou Child of Joy, Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd-boy I
Page 360 - darkling down the torrent of his fate:" and Keats,' " Darkling I listen: and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful death." Cheerful ways of men. Compare Tennyson's Tithonus : " Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly ways of men ?" where kindly may bear its original meaning of " natural.
Page 121 - sing. I cannot go Where Universal Love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns ; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. But I lose Myself in Him, in Light ineffable ; Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise
Page 303 - thou art we know not; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden. In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden,

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