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Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. - Soldier's Wife [Charity] She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze. - Sonnet XIX [Ships] Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting. - Sonnets--The Evening Rainbow [Rainbows] How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud nor speck nor stain Breaks the serene of heaven. - Thalaba (bk. I) [Night] The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix. - Thalaba (bk. VI, st. 13) [Bees] "It was the English," Kaspar cried, "Who put the French to rout; But what they fought each other for I could not well make out; But everybody said," quoth he, "That 'twas a famous victory." * * * * * "They said it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. - The Battle of Blenheim [Victory] And so never ending, But always descending. - The Cataract of Lodore [Water] "How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" - The Cataract of Lodore [Water] Thou hast been called, O Sleep, the friend of Woe, But 'tis the happy who have called thee so. - The Curse of Kehama (canto XV, st. 12) [Sleep] 'Twas a light that made Darkness itself appear A thing of comfort. - The Curse of Kehama--Padalon (st. 2) [Light] When St. Thomas Aquinas was asked in what manner a man might best become learned, he answered, "By reading one book." The homo unius libri is indeed proverbially formidable to all conversational figurantes. - The Doctor (p. 164) [Books] And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaves a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree? - The Holly-Tree [Holly] O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. - The Holly-Tree (st. 1) [Holly] And last of all an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name,-- A name which you all know by sight very well; But which no one can speak, and no one can spell. - The March to Moscow (st. 8) [Names] "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William,--a hearty old man: Now tell me the reason, I pray." - The Old Man's Comforts, and how he Gained Them [Age] The Satanic school. - Vision of Judgment (original preface, III) [Devil] The grave Is but the threshold of eternity. - Vision of the Maid of Orleans (bk. II) [Graves] Displaying page 5 of 5 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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