The offering, a tribute of friendship and affection, by the ed. of 'The wreath of friendship'.1834 |
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Página 124 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Página 205 - But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi, Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber ! Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever ! XVII.
Página 94 - ... feet. A part of this thickness is constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on both sides, is one...
Página 205 - CORONACH He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font reappearing From the raindrops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory.
Página 154 - Hang o'er their coursers' heads with eager speed, And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed. Let old Arcadia boast her ample plain, Th...
Página 172 - Sir, my consent shall more acquit you herein to God than all the world can do besides. To a willing man there is no injury done...
Página 95 - This bridge is in the county of Rockbridge, to which it has given name, and affords a public and commodious passage over a valley which cannot be crossed elsewhere for a considerable distance.
Página 154 - Phoebus' fiery car : The youth rush eager to the sylvan war ; Swarm o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. 150 The impatient courser pants in every vein, And pawing seems to beat the distant plain : Hills, vales, and floods appear already cross'd ; And ere he starts, a thousand steps are lost. 154 See the bold youth strain up the threatening steep. Rush through the thickets, down the valleys sweep, Hang o'er their coursers' heads with eager speed,...
Página 254 - He had been there for some years, had been successful, and had taken his passage on board a small vessel to visit his native country, and make some provision for the old age of a parent to whom he was sensible how much he owed. To her this intelligence was a new life. Before the time for the shortest passage that had ever been known had elapsed, she was anxiously looking out for his arrival, and daily poured her prayers to Heaven for his safety. Weeks were passed in painful suspense : the owners...
Página 123 - ... springs from. Yet every woman, beautiful or not, has that power more or less ; and every man yields to its influence. The women of all nations are beautiful. Female beauty, in the limited sense of the word, is that outward form and proportion which corresponds with the theories of poets and the rules of artists — of which every nation has examples, and of which every woman has a share. But beauty, by a more natural definition of the word, is that indescribable charm, that union of many qualities...