Poems: Early poems, narrative poems, and sonnetsMacmillan, 1877 |
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Ęsir answer'd arms art thou Asgard Balder back Balder's ship Bifrost blood Breidablik bridge bright Brittany brow call'd canst cold corpse crown'd dark dawn dead dear death deep dost doth dream earth eyes father Fausta feast Fenris follow'd gazed ghosts Giall's stream gloom Gods golden grave grief Gudurz hand hath head hear heard heart Hela Hela's realm Hermod Heroes Hoder horse Iseult King light live look'd loved Midgard mother mourn Nanna Niflheim night Niord o'er Odin Odin's hall Oxus pain pale pass'd Persian plain plain Of Ida replied rode round Ruksh Rustum sand sate Seistan shalt shining sleep Sleipner Sohrab solemn queen soul spake spear spoke stars steeds stood sweet Tartar tears thee thine Thor thou art thou hast to-day took Tristram turn'd Valhalla Vizier voice weep wilt wind wood Ymir youth
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Page 240 - Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream, Where the sea-beasts, ranged all round, Feed in the ooze of their pasture-ground; 40 Where the sea-snakes coil and twine, Dry their mail and bask in the brine; Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye?
Page 242 - And so she sings her fill, Singing most joyfully, Till the spindle drops from her hand, And the whizzing wheel stands still. She steals to the window, and looks at the sand, And over the sand at the sea; And her eyes are set in a stare...
Page 243 - Lights shine in the town. She will start from her slumber When gusts shake the door; She will hear the winds howling, Will hear the waves roar. We shall see, while above us The waves roar and whirl, A ceiling of amber, THE FORSAKEN MERMAN A pavement of pearl. Singing, ' Here came a mortal, But faithless was she: And alone dwell for ever The kings of the sea.
Page 23 - REQUIESCAT Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Her mirth the world required; She bathed it in smiles of glee. But her heart was tired, tired, And now they let her be. Her life was turning, turning, In mazes of heat and sound.
Page 5 - SHAKESPEARE Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwellingplace, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foiled searching of mortality; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, selfsecure, Didst tread on earth unguessed at.
Page 3 - One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, One lesson which in every wind is blown, One lesson of two duties kept at one Though the loud world proclaim their enmity — Of toil unsever'd from tranquillity! Of labour, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplished in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry!
Page 119 - Might now be lying on this bloody sand, Near death, and by an ignorant stroke of thine, Not thou of mine! and I might die, not thou; And I, not thou, be borne to Seistan...
Page 76 - Lean'd on his gate, he gazes — tears Are in his eyes, and in his ears The murmur of a thousand years.
Page 9 - Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
Page 91 - The Tartar challenge, and this young man's name ; Haply he will forget his wrath, and fight. Stand forth the while, and take their challenge up." So spake he ; and Ferood stood forth and cried, — " Old man, be it agreed as thou hast said ! Let Sohrab arm, and we will find a man.