One Hundred Double Acrostics. A New Year's Gift1866 - 89 pages |
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a-fishing go Adam and Eve Ægean Sea Albatross beauty beneath bird black and blue Blockhead blue brave Breathes bright Canton Caterpillar Celebrated tradesman Ceres CHARING CROSS chastity of look clouds comes this imagination Confusion thrill'd dark day has vex'd deep deluge doth dream fair fairy flow flowers forgot The mountains friends gale or snow Germany grief hath heard heart heat is reckoned heaven hour of day Italian King King Arthur Lancelot lark merrily merry mirth never night purest light o'er Queen Red Sea Revolutionist unquiet river robes are round roses round my Third run our final Sea A resinous Second Is pleasant shine shore sigh sleep smile sorrow STAMFORD STREET starry goddess stole its pleasures Suggesting a zephyr summer sunbeams sweet thee thine things thou tree Trumpets twas United.-Medicinal waters wave White my Second wine word ye think Youth's resting-place
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Page 49 - The future, till the past be gulfd in darkness, It is not of my search. — My mother Earth ! And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains, Why are ye beautiful ? I cannot love ye. And thou, the bright eye of the universe, That openest over all, and unto all Art a delight — thou shin'st not on my heart.
Page 51 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 35 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 19 - The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And ' Stanley ! ' was the cry. A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye ; With dying hand above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted ' Victory ! — Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!
Page 17 - ... twas wondrous pitiful ; She wished she had not heard it; yet she wished That Heaven had made her such a man : she thanked me ; And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake ; She loved me for the dangers I had passed ; And I loved her that she did pity them.
Page 61 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Page 57 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 23 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground...
Page 51 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine...
Page 74 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep...