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A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she. - The Princess--Prologue (l. 153) [Women] To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay An the last load hoam. - The Promise of May (act II), a song [Fidelity] Slow sail'd the weary mariners and saw, Betwixt the green brink and the running foam, Sweet faces, rounded arms, and bosoms prest To little harps of gold; and while they mused Whispering to each other half in fear, Shrill music reach'd them on the middle sea. - The Sea Fairies [Mermaids] But light as any wind that blows So fleetly did she stir, The flower, she touch'd on, dipt and rose, And turned to look at her. - The Talking Oak (st. 33) [Fairies] Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. - The Two Voices (st. CXXVII) [Dreams : Proverbial Phrases] Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. - The Window--Gone [Parting] Attain the unattainable. - Timbuctoo [Success] No sound is breathed so potent to coerce And to conciliate, as their names who dare For that sweet mother-land which gave them birth Nobly to do, nobly to die. - Tiresias [Names] Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. - Tithonus (st. 5) [Tears] For now the Poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce he cold Begins the scandal and the cry. - To -----, after Reading a Life and Letters (st. 4) [Poets] And wit its honey lent, without the sting. - To the Memory of Lord Talbot [Wit] For tho' the faults were thick as dust In vacant chambers, I could trust Your kindness. - To the Queen (st. 5) [Faults] And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. - To the Queen (st. 8) [Statesmanship] Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. - To the Queen (st. 9) [Royalty] A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth. - Two Voices [Nothingness] Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death. - Two Voices (st. 132) [Death] For always roaming with a hungry heart, Much have I seen and known. - Ulysses [Traveling] I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. - Ulysses (l. 18) [Experience : Influence : Man] The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. - Ulysses (l. 54) [Evening] I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees. - Ulysses (l. 6) [Life] It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. - Ulysses (l. 65) [Immortality] An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paains. - Village Wife [Sickness] Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born. - Vision of Sin (st. 9) [Time] At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, "Is there any hope?" To which an answer pealed from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn, God made himself an awful rose of dawn. - Vision of Sin (V) [God] Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days. - Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue, (ed. 1842) [Shadows] Displaying page 17 of 18 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [17] 18
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