Memorials of a residence on the continentEdward Moxon, 1838 |
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Almanzor antient art thou beauty BELLINI beneath beside blessed blest blood bosom bound breast bright brow calm child CHILD JESUS Christ Christian cold conscious dare dear dearest Death deep delight divine dream earnest earth eternal eve'ry eyes face faith faithless fame fear feel FIESOLE gaze give gloom glory gold Gondola grace grave hand harp heart Heaven hills holy hour Italian Italy JESUS King land light living looks Lord marriage memo'ries memory moon mortal Nature Nature's never night o'er Occident pain passion PETRARCH pleasant pomp pray prayer Provençal quive'ring rest rills Rome rose round scorn shadow shame shore sight sister slow decay smile song sorrow soul Spain spirit stone stood strong summer land sway sweet sympathies Tadmor tears temples thee thine things thou art thought toil tomb Traun tremble Venetian Venice voice wealth words
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Сторінка 124 - And it came to pass when the spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp and played with his hand. So Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him
Сторінка 38 - Not in the rude compiler's painted shell, But in thine own memorials of live stone, And in the pictures of thy kneeling princes, And in the lofty words on lofty tombs, And in the breath of ancient chroniclers, And in the music of the outer sea.
Сторінка 46 - A windowless, deformed and dreary pile; And on the top an open tower, where hung A bell, which in the radiance swayed and swung; We could just hear its hoarse and iron tongue: The broad sun sunk behind it, and it tolled In strong and black relief.
Сторінка 38 - WHEN along the light ripple the far serenade Has accosted the ear of each passionate maid, She may open the window that looks on the stream, — She may smile on her pillow and blend it in dream ; Half in words, half in music, it pierces the gloom,
Сторінка 5 - Form'd by the slow decay of num'rous years, — The couch of moss, whose growth alone appears, Beneath the fir's inhospitable eaves, — The chirp and flutter of some single bird, The rustle in the brake, — what precious store Of joys have these on poets...
Сторінка 107 - That noble type is realized again In perfect form; and dedicate — to whom ? To a poor Syrian girl of lowliest name, — A hapless creature, pitiful and frail As ever wore her life in sin and shame ? " R. II. MILHES. The saint, whether she were " the lowly Syrian girl " or the
Сторінка 28 - ... Adrian sea But as thy lawful tho' too faithless Spouse ; And when, in the sad lustre of the moon, Thy Palaces seem beautifully wan, He blesses God that there is left on earth So marvellous, so. full an antidote, For all the racks and toils of mortal life, As thy sweet countenance to gaze upon.
Сторінка 39 - Then return to your couch, you who stifle a tear,— Then awake not, fair sleeper — believe he is here ; For the young and the loving no sorrow endures, If to-day be another's, to-morrow is yours; — May, the next time you listen, your fancy be true,
Сторінка 144 - Some have by harsh experience learned, and all by evil fame. Oh, they are wild and wanton men, such as the best will be, Who know no other gifts of God but to be bold and free, Who never saw how states are bound in golden bonds of law, Who never knew how strongest hearts are bent by holy awe. When first into their pirate hands I fell, a very boy, Skirting the shore from rock to rock in unsuspecting joy, I had been taught to pray, and thus those slavish days were few, A wondrous hazard brought me...
Сторінка 24 - That Venice must of needs eternal be, For Heaven had looked through the pellucid air, And cast its reflex in the crystal sea, And Venice was the image pictured there ;" * I hear them now, and tremble, for I seem As treading on an unsubstantial dream.