Songs of Far-away LandsLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1878 - 301 pages |
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Adora Alps Baroness beard beasts beauty bended bird black hand blown bow'd brave breath brow Capucin careless climb'd clouds clutch'd cried curl'd cursed dare dark dead death deep Delos drew earth eyes face fair fall feet fell flame fled flood follow'd gather'd gold golden grey hair hand head heart heaven isles knew land laugh'd lean'd leaning lifted light lion lips lone lonesome look look'd moon never night o'er Old Morgan pass'd priest proud push'd reach'd rest rode rose round rowlock sail Saint Mark sand Sappho scarce sea of sand sea-king seem'd ship shore silent Sir Francis Jain song soul spake stamp'd stars steed stood storm strong sweet tall tears thou TORCELLO touch'd Toy'd trees turn'd Twas Vasques Venice wave weary white sea wild wood
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Page 176 - What strength! what strife! what rude unrest! What shocks! what half-shaped armies met! A mighty nation moving west, With all its steely sinews set Against the living forests. Hear The shouts, the shots of pioneer, The rended forests, rolling wheels, As if some half-check'd army reels, Recoils, redoubles, comes again, Loud sounding like a hurricane. O bearded, stalwart, westmost men, So tower-like, so Gothic built! A kingdom won without the guilt Of studied battle, that hath been Your blood's inheritance....
Page 273 - The while they bow'd their necks and drew The creaking load ; and looked at you. Their sable briskets swept the ground, Their cloven feet kept solemn sound. >° Two sullen bullocks led the line, Their great eyes shining bright like wine; Two sullen captive kings were they.
Page 177 - Cleave softly through the mellow loam Where you have made eternal home, And set no sign. Your epitaphs Are writ in furrows. Beauty laughs While through the green ways wandering Beside her love, slow gathering White, starry-hearted May-time blooms Above your lowly...
Page 273 - The while they bowed their necks and drew The creaking load; and looked at you. Their sable briskets swept the ground, Their cloven feet kept solemn sound. Two sullen bullocks led the line, Their great eyes shining bright like wine; Two sullen captive kings were they, That had in time held herds at bay, And even now they crushed the sod With stolid sense of majesty, And stately stepped and stately trod, As if 't were something still to be Kings even in captivity.
Page 245 - All night, as mounting her watery walls, And watching for pirate or smuggler. Down Over the sea, and reaching away, And against the east, a soft light falls, — Silvery soft as the mist of morn, And I catch a breath like the breath of day. The east is blossoming! Yea, a rose, Vast as the heavens, soft as a kiss, Sweet as the presence of woman is, Rises and reaches and widens and grows Right out of the sea, as a blossoming tree...
Page 253 - Lo! this to-night shall deck her hair Through all the dance. And mark! the man shall die Who dares assault, for good or ill design, The citadel where I shall set this sign.
Page 252 - A gala night it was — the season's prime ; We rode from castled lake to festal town, To fair Milan — my friend and I ; rode down By night, where grasses waved in rippled rhyme ; And so what...
Page 253 - Ariadne are. Who loves, who truly loves, will stand aloof, The noisy tongue makes most unholy proof Of shallow waters...
Page 277 - What strong, uncommon men were these, These settlers hewing to the seas ! Great horny-handed men and tan ; Men blown from many a barren land Beyond the sea ; men red of hand, And men in love, and men in debt, Like David's men in battle set ; And men whose very hearts had died, Who only sought these woods to hide Their wretchedness, held in the van ; Yet every man among them stood Alone, along that sounding wood, And every man somehow a man. They...
Page 178 - Has gather'd you from wood and plain. We call to you again, again; The rush and rumble of the car Comes back in answer. Deep and wide The wheels of progress have passed on; The silent pioneer is gone. His ghost is moving down the trees, And now we push the memories Of bluff, bold men who dared and died In foremost battle, quite aside.