A Day at Tivoli: With Other Verses, Issue 46Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 - 248 pages |
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Ægypt amid ancient ancient Rome Anio arch Argao Ausonian awhile beams beauty behold beneath beside bien bliss Bordighiera bower breeze bright brow Cæsar church circling sea clime dare DAY AT TIVOLI dear doth dream E'en earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING erewhile Fair Falernian wine fane feel Flaccus flashing locks GIPSY glittering glorious grace grave green hast hath heart hills HORAT hour hues idlesse land less life's Line Livy LYCIDAS maize memories mingling muse ne'er neath never nobler o'er palace pause peasant's pensive perchance Pilgrim-Friend ponder proud Rome round and round ruin Saint SANGUINETTO sarcophagus scarce seemed sense silent Sir Charles Fellows smile song sooth soul spot STANZA steep stood strange stream sweet tale tell thee thine thou art thought thro toil tomb truth Twas UPPER AUSTRIA VERSES vine vision wave ween wind youth
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Page 3 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Page 107 - WE win where least we care to strive, And where the most we strive we miss. Old Hannibal, if now alive, Might sadly testify to this. . He lost the Rome for which he came; And — what he never had i» petto — Won for this little brook a name, — Its mournful name of Sanguinetto.
Page 226 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 239 - ... begins to estimate rightly the increasing depths of current, that must roll on in its deep channel to the sea. Carried out of the Balize, and sailing with a good breeze for hours, he sees nothing on any side, but the white and turbid waters of the Mississippi, long after he is out of sight of land.
Page 60 - In better phrase than they. And all that German land was known To him, familiar as his own ; Their states — their dynasties he knew, — Their folk, how many or how few ; Each tale of conquest, battle, siege, Right, custom, tenure, privilege, With all that appertaineth, down From Caesar or from King — to Clown ; And all that priest or jurist saith Of modes of law, or modes of faith. And He had comment full and clear, The fruit of many a travelled year ; But more by meditation brought From inner...
Page 238 - Chanticleer, Ordaining silence with his sovereign crow. Then from one chord of his amazing shell Would he fetch out the voice of quires, and weight Of the built organ ; or some twofold strain Moving before him in sweet-going yoke, Ride like an Eastern conqueror, round whose state Some light Morisco leaps with his guitar ; And ever and anon o'er these he'd throw Jets of small notes like pearl, or like the pelt Of lovers...
Page 100 - Thro' irony of hearts the mender, May this pig prove like thine own pathos — tender; Bear of thy sageness, in its sage the zest; And quaintly crackle, like the crackling jest ; And— dry without — rich inly — as thy wit, Be worthy thee — as thou art worthy it.
Page 232 - Righi, a distance of four or five miles. Its greatest breadth may be three miles, and the triangular area of ruins is fully equal to that of Paris, taken at the external boulevards, or about double the real extent of the inhabited city. I notice, however, that the portion of the strata at the top of the Rossberg, which slid down into the valley, is certainly less than the chaotic accumulation below ; and I have no doubt that a considerable part of it comes from the soil of the valley itself, ploughed...