A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

(avery) #1

Are mere uaurpen, tyrattta, and, what's wol'l!e 1
To fri~bt the animals, and to kill them up
In the1r &~~~ign'd and native dwelling-place.
Duke. And did you leave him in this contemplation f
Lord..We did, my lord, weeping and commenting
Upon the sobbing deer.


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MoBN on the waters I and, purple and bright,
Bul"Bte on the billows the fiuahmg of light;
O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun,
Bee the tall vel!llel goes gall11ntly on ;
Full to the breeze abe unboeoma her sail,
And her pennonetreams onward, like hope, in the gale;
The winds come around her, in murmur and song,
And the 11urges rejoice &a they bear her along,
See! she looks up to the golden-edged cloude,
And the sailor singe gaily aloft in the shrouds:
Onward she glides, amid ripple and spray,
Over the wate~way, and aw11y!
Bright as the Tiai0t111 of youth, ere they part,
Paeeing away, like a dream of the heart l
Wbo......,as the beautiful pageant aweepe by,
Mueic around her, and sunshine on high-
Pauses to think, amid glittet· and glow,
Oh .I there be hearts that are breaking below I


Night on the wavee 1-r.nd the moon is on high,
Hung, like a gem on the brow of the sky,
Treading ita depth; in the power of her might,
And turning the clouds, aa they p11BB her, to light!·
Look to the watel'l! 1-aaleep on their breast,
Seema not the ship like au island of rest 7
Bright and Alone on the shadowy main,
Like a heart-che.risb'd home on some desolate plAin I
Who-a.a ahe smiles in the silvery lightf
Spreading her wings on the boeom of mght,
A1one on the deep, as the moon in the aky,
A phantom of beauty-could deem with a e'igh,
That so lovely a thing is the mansion of ain,
And that aouls that are smitten lie bunting within t

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