Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and PeopleHarper, 1852 - 558 pages |
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... flowers small With many a mingling gleam ; Where the broad flag waves , and the bulrush tall Nods still to the thrusting stream . The Forget - me - not on the water's edge Reveals her lovely hue , Where the broken bank , between the ...
... flowers small With many a mingling gleam ; Where the broad flag waves , and the bulrush tall Nods still to the thrusting stream . The Forget - me - not on the water's edge Reveals her lovely hue , Where the broken bank , between the ...
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... flowers of poesy bloom In the forge's dust and cinders , in the tissues of the loom . Here Hans Sachs , the cobbler - poet , laureate of the gentle craft , Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters , in huge folios sung and laughed . But his ...
... flowers of poesy bloom In the forge's dust and cinders , in the tissues of the loom . Here Hans Sachs , the cobbler - poet , laureate of the gentle craft , Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters , in huge folios sung and laughed . But his ...
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... flowering rush , the willow - herb , the meadow - sweet , and the forget - me - not ; now expanding into a wide quiet pool , now contracted into a mimic rapid between banks that almost meet ; and so the little stream keeps us com- pany ...
... flowering rush , the willow - herb , the meadow - sweet , and the forget - me - not ; now expanding into a wide quiet pool , now contracted into a mimic rapid between banks that almost meet ; and so the little stream keeps us com- pany ...
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... flowers and founts and nymphs and semi - gods And all the graces find their old abodes ; Where forests flourish but in endless verse , And meadows , nothing fit for purchasers : This iron age ( Think of that in the days of James the ...
... flowers and founts and nymphs and semi - gods And all the graces find their old abodes ; Where forests flourish but in endless verse , And meadows , nothing fit for purchasers : This iron age ( Think of that in the days of James the ...
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... flowers , -but where is my Whole ? Look to the hill ! -is he climbing its side ? Look to the stream ! -is he crossing its tide ? Out on the false one ! -he comes not yet- Lady , forget him ! yea , scorn and forget ! The next is a ...
... flowers , -but where is my Whole ? Look to the hill ! -is he climbing its side ? Look to the stream ! -is he crossing its tide ? Out on the false one ! -he comes not yet- Lady , forget him ! yea , scorn and forget ! The next is a ...
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Page 540 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 388 - Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet ? God ! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God...
Page 527 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness: The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find ; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds and other seas, Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Page 431 - Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part. Nay, I have done; you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 173 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on.
Page 234 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 420 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 139 - Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave.
Page 314 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 130 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.