Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Volume 3

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H. Rawson & Company, 1877 - English literature

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Page 219 - board of nights and days, Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. The ball no question makes of ayes and noes, But right or left, as strikes the player, goes ; And He that tossed you down into the field, He knows about it all—He knows—He knows.
Page 219 - Think in this battered caravanserai, Whose portals are alternate night and day, How sultan after sultan, with his pomp, Abode his destined hour and went his way. They say the lion and the lizard keep The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep ; And Bahram, that great hunter—the wild ass Stamps o'er his head, but cannot break his sleep.
Page 204 - Penseroso : — There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstacies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. The
Page 28 - Let us alone, what pleasure can we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? All things have rest and ripen towards the grave, In silence ripen, fall, and cease ; Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease. If
Page 218 - And this was all the harvest that I reaped, " I came like water and like wind I go" Into this universe, and why not knowing, Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing ; And out of it, as wind along the waste, I know not whither, willy-nilly flowing.
Page 131 - Wilt thou begone ? It is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree : Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. In
Page 134 - speaks of— The merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates, With fast thick warble, his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music.
Page 69 - chamber ; for you know Pyramus and Thisbe meet by moonlight. SNUG : Doth the moon shine that night we play our play ? BOTTOM : A calendar, a calendar ! Look in the almanac, find out moonshine, find out moonshine ! QUINCE : Yes, it doth shine that night. BOTTOM : Why, then, may you leave a casement of the great chamber window,
Page 29 - To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coin'd my cheeks to smiles, nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them, in a shroud Of thoughts which are not their thoughts,
Page 199 - Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone : But I beneath a rougher sea And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

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