The Annual Anthology, Volume 2Robert Southey T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800 - 300 pages |
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... hour . Elate the Abbot sees the pile and knows Stateliest of convents now , his new Moscera rose . II . Long were the tale that told Moscera's pride , Its columns clustered strength and lofty state , How many a saint bedeck'd its ...
... hour . Elate the Abbot sees the pile and knows Stateliest of convents now , his new Moscera rose . II . Long were the tale that told Moscera's pride , Its columns clustered strength and lofty state , How many a saint bedeck'd its ...
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... hour , great Tom's tremendous knell ; The fountain streams that now in Christ - Church stink , Had niagara'd o'er the quadrangle ; But , as ' twas beauty that deserv'd the flood , I ween , dear George , our own old college might have ...
... hour , great Tom's tremendous knell ; The fountain streams that now in Christ - Church stink , Had niagara'd o'er the quadrangle ; But , as ' twas beauty that deserv'd the flood , I ween , dear George , our own old college might have ...
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... hour began the fight . Tho ' courage , duty , honour summoned there , He chose to forfeit all , not leave the unfinish'd prayer . * Acontecio en aquella + batalla una cosa digna de memoria . Fernan Antolinez , hombre noble y muy devoto ...
... hour began the fight . Tho ' courage , duty , honour summoned there , He chose to forfeit all , not leave the unfinish'd prayer . * Acontecio en aquella + batalla una cosa digna de memoria . Fernan Antolinez , hombre noble y muy devoto ...
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... hour of danger serv'd him well , Dear George , the tale is true , and yet no miracle . Assi publicado el caso , y sabido lo que passava , quedo mas conocida la inocencia esfuerço de Antolinez . Mariana . Perhaps this miracle and its ...
... hour of danger serv'd him well , Dear George , the tale is true , and yet no miracle . Assi publicado el caso , y sabido lo que passava , quedo mas conocida la inocencia esfuerço de Antolinez . Mariana . Perhaps this miracle and its ...
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... hour That it may stir your noble spirits , prompt Such glorious deeds that ages yet unborn Shall bless my fate . At midnight I awoke- For by my bed the villain Tarquin stood . My chamber lamp gleam'd on his unsheath'd sword ; That was ...
... hour That it may stir your noble spirits , prompt Such glorious deeds that ages yet unborn Shall bless my fate . At midnight I awoke- For by my bed the villain Tarquin stood . My chamber lamp gleam'd on his unsheath'd sword ; That was ...
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ARAUCANS beauty Beelzebub behold Beneath bosom bower breast bright brow busy busy Bee CHARLES LLOYD cheek child clouds cold Cossack cried Crocodile dark dear death delight dream dwell E'en ECLOGUE fair feel fire flowers gale gentle GEORGE GOODWIN grave green billows Gualberto Halloo hast hath Hatto hear heard heart Heaven hill holy hour house of pride Iceburgs ISAAC King laughing Lewti light limbs lov'd maid MARGARET mark'd mind morn Moscera Muse Musquito Nature's never night o'er once pale poor praise pride quoth ROBERT SOUTHEY rose round scene Siberia sigh sleep smile song SONNET sorrow soul spirit stood stream sweet tale tears tell tempest thee thine Thou art thou busy busy thou wert thought thro TRAVELLER twas Twill vale vex'd viperous Race wandering ween whilst wild wind wings winter WOMAN youth
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Page 28 - twas a famous victory! "My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 243 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls helter-skelter they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the Bishop they go.
Page 129 - On springy heath, along the hill-top edge, Wander in gladness, and wind down, perchance, To that still roaring dell, of which I told ; The roaring dell, o'erwooded, narrow, deep, And only speckled by the midday sun; Where its slim trunk the ash from rock to rock Flings arching like a bridge...
Page 132 - With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain And strange calamity! Ah! slowly sink Behind the western ridge, thou glorious sun! Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb, Ye purple heath-flowers! richlier burn, ye clouds! Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves! And kindle, thou blue ocean! So my Friend Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood, Silent with swimming sense...
Page 27 - Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh "Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Page 133 - Was richly tinged, and a deep radiance lay Full on the ancient ivy, which usurps Those fronting elms, and now, with blackest mass Makes their dark branches gleam a lighter hue Through the late twilight: and though now the bat Wheels silent by, and not a swallow twitters, Yet still the solitary humble bee Sings in the bean-flower! Henceforth I shall know That Nature ne'er deserts the wise and pure...
Page 26 - IT wAS a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done. And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round. Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found. That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And...
Page 29 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ?" Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
Page 27 - twas all about,' Young Peterkin, he cries; And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting eyes; 'Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.
Page 241 - So then to his palace returned he, And he sate down to supper merrily, And he slept that night like an innocent man, But bishop Hatto never slept again. In the morning as he entered the hall, Where his picture hung against the wall, A sweat like death all over him came, For the rats had eaten it out of the frame. As he look'd, there came a man from his farm. He had a countenance white with alarm, My lord, I opened your granaries this morn, And the rats had eaten all your corn.