Alaric at Rome: And Other PoemsWard, Lock, 1896 - 339 pages |
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Afrasiab Arnold art thou Asopus breast breath bright Brittany brow CALLICLES calm Catana cheek CIRCE clear cloud cold Critias dark dead death deep doth dream earth EMPEDOCLES EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA Etna eyes Fate Fausta fear feel gaze gleam glens gloom Gods grave green grey hair hand hath head hear heart Heaven hills hour Iacchus Iseult King kiss be dry light liv'd live lonely lov'd man's Matthew Arnold mind mountain never night o'er once Oxus pain pale pass'd passion PAUSANIAS poem poet poetical revelling band round Rustum sand Seistan shining sings sleep smile smiling queen Sohrab sorrow soul spear spirit spring stand stars stood stream strife sweet tears Thebes thee thine things thou art thou hast thought thy tablets Tristram Vizier voice wander waves weep wild wind ye Stars youth
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Page 213 - He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth, Smiles broke from us and we had ease; The hills were round us, and the breeze Went o'er the sun-lit fields again; Our foreheads felt the wind and rain. Our youth return'd; for there was shed On spirits that had long been dead, Spirits dried up and closely furl'd, The freshness of the early world.
Page 170 - ... islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. But when the moon their hollows lights, And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour — Oh ! then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent ; for surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent!
Page 91 - For the cold strange eyes of a little Mermaiden, And the gleam of her golden hair. Come away, away children. Come children, come down. The hoarse wind blows colder ; Lights shine in the town.
Page 91 - For the priest, and the bell, and the holy well— For the wheel where I spun, And the blessed light of the sun!
Page 88 - MERMAN COME, dear children, let us away ; Down and away below ! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away ! This way, this way ! Call her once before you go — Call once yet ! In a voice that she will know : "Margaret! Margaret!
Page 212 - Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said : Thou ailest here, and here...
Page 90 - She sate by the pillar; we saw her clear; "Margaret, hist ! Come quick, we are here ! Dear heart," I said, "we are long alone; The sea grows stormy, the little ones moan.
Page 313 - Brimming and bright, and large ; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents ; that for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles — Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high...
Page 59 - OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Page 330 - And in the sun all morning binds the sheaves, Then here, at noon, comes back his stores to use; Here will I sit and wait, While to my ear from uplands far away The bleating of the folded flocks is borne ; With distant cries of reapers in the corn— All the live murmur of a summer's day.