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Page 133 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Page 302 - With tears of thoughtful gratitude. My thoughts are with the Dead ; with them I live in long-past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind.
Page 282 - Sir Ralph the Rover sail'd away, He scour'd the seas for many a day; And now grown rich with plunder'd store, He steers his course for Scotland's shore. So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky They cannot see the sun on high; The wind hath blown a gale all day, At evening it hath died away.
Page 284 - I'll venture my life She has drank of the Well of St. Keyne." "I have left a good woman who never was here...
Page 301 - My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Page 280 - The ship was as still as she could be ; Her sails from heaven received no motion ; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock ; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape bell.
Page 280 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The...
Page 101 - I charm thy life From the weapons of strife, From stone and from wood, From fire and from flood, From the serpent's tooth, And the beasts of blood : From Sickness I charm thee, And Time shall not harm thee, But Earth which is mine, Its fruits shall deny thee ; And Water shall hear me, And know thee and fly thee ; And the Winds shall not touch thee When they pass by thee, And. the Dews shall not wet thee, When they fall nigh thee : \ v*.
Page 283 - For from cock-crow he had been travelling, And there was not a cloud in the sky. He drank of the water so cool and clear, For thirsty and hot was he, And he sat down upon the bank Under the willow-tree.
Page 274 - In vain for help to scream!" The shriek again was heard: it came More deep, more piercing loud. That instant o'er the flood, the moon Shone through a broken cloud; And near them they beheld a child; Upon a crag he stood, A little crag, and all around Was spread the rising flood. The boatman plied the oar, the boat Approached his resting place; The moonbeam shone upon the child And showed how pale his face! "Now reach thy hand.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Selected Poems of Robert Southey Canterbury poets The Canterbury poets, ed. by William Sharp |
| Author | Robert Southey |
| Editor | SIdney Robert Thompson |
| Publisher | W. Scott, 1888 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2004 |
| Length | 304 pages |
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