Yarrow Revisited: And Other PoemsR. Bartlett and S. Raynor, 1835 - 349 σελίδες "Poems composed during a tour in Scotland, and on the English border, in the autumn of 1831"-- |
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abode Adam Bell ancient beauty blessed BOTHWELL CASTLE bowers breast breath bright brow castle cave charity cheer cherished Church clan clime clouds Countess Cumberland dear dog Hercules pursued doom Dowager dreams drest earth fair Fair parks faith feelings flowed Fibula flood flower forlorn fresh gentle gleams glory grace HAMILTON PALACE Hart's-horn Tree hath heart heaven Highland Broach HIGHLAND HUT hour humane memorial's fond humble INGLEWOOD FOREST ISLE lady land Laus Deo Life's light Loch Loch Katrine LOCH LOMOND look meek Merlin mind morning mountain muse Nature's night passed peace Persepolis pillar pious poems poor praise pride repose rest rill river RIVER EDEN ROMAN round shade sigh sleep smile soft song sonnet soul spirit spread star stone stood strange brotherhood streams sweet tender thankful thee thou three first seasons towers Trossachs voice walls waves Whence wings
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Σελίδα 65 - MOST sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path be there or none, While a fair region round the traveller lies Which he forbears again to look upon ; • Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone.
Σελίδα vii - When first I gazed upon her ; Beheld what I had feared to see, Unwilling to surrender Dreams treasured up from early days, The holy and the tender.
Σελίδα 38 - Why art thou silent ? Is thy love a plant Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air Of absence withers what was once so fair ? Is there no debt to pay, no boon to grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant, Bound to thy service with unceasing care — The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak ! — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than...
Σελίδα 69 - LIST, ye who pass by Lyulph's Tower * At eve; how softly then Doth Aira-force, that torrent hoarse, Speak from the woody glen ! Fit music for a solemn vale ! And holier seems the ground To him who catches on the gale The spirit of a mournful tale, Embodied in the sound.
Σελίδα xii - THERE'S not a nook within this solemn Pass, But were an apt confessional for One Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone, That Life is but a tale of morning grass Withered at Eve. From scenes of art which chase That thought away, turn. and with watchful eyes Feed it mid Nature's old felicities, Rocks, rivers, and smooth lakes more clear than glass Untouched, unbreathed upon. Thrice happy quest, If from a golden perch of aspen spray (October's workmanship to rival May) The Pensive warbler of the...
Σελίδα 38 - UP to the throne of God is borne The voice of praise at early morn, And he accepts the punctual hymn Sung as the light of day grows dim : Nor will he turn his ear aside From holy offerings at noontide. Then here reposing let us raise A song of gratitude and praise.
Σελίδα 59 - THANKS for the lessons of this spot, — fit school For the presumptuous thoughts that would assign Mechanic laws to agency divine ; And, measuring heaven by earth, would overrule Infinite Power. The pillared vestibule, Expanding yet precise, the roof embowed, Might seem designed to humble man, when proud Of his best workmanship by plan and tool.
Σελίδα 124 - There are among the walks of homely life Still higher, men for contemplation framed, Shy, and unpractised in the strife of phrase ; Meek men, whose very souls perhaps would sink Beneath them, summoned to such intercourse : Theirs is the language of the heavens, the power, The thought, the image, and the silent joy : Words are but under-agents in their souls ; When they are grasping with their greatest strength, They do not breathe among them...
Σελίδα 38 - Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant — Bound to thy service with unceasing care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine — Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! TO BR HAYDON, ON SEEING HIS PICTURE OF...
Σελίδα 42 - THE Liberty of a people consists in being governed by Laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of Government. The Liberty of a private man in being Master of his own Time and Actions, as far as may consist with the Laws of God and of his Country. Of this latter only we are here to discourse...