The Book of ElegiesJames Baldwin Silver, Burdett & Company, 1893 - 304 pages |
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Aphrodite Arethusa Astrophel beauty begin the dirge begin the shepherd's blood breast breath Compare with Lycidas Cytherea Daphnis dark dead death doth dream earth Eclogue Edmund Spenser Elegy eternal euphuism eyes faded Faerie Queene fair faith flowers grave grief hath hear heart heaven hills Idyl Keats kiss Lament for Adonis Lament for Bion light living Lycidas Lycon Milton mind morning Moschus mountains mourn mourn for Adonis night Nymphs o'er Paradise Lost pastoral Persephone Phædo poem poet poetry Priapus Ring rose round shadow Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's Shepheards Calender shepherd's lay shore Sicily Sidney sing Sir Philip Sidney sleep song Sonnet soul Spenser spirit spring STANZA star sweet tears thee Theocritus thine things thou art thought thro Thyrsis tomb unto Urania Venus voice wail weep wild winds woods words ye Muses dear ye Sicilian Muses
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Page 295 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart — Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Page 193 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 129 - He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 294 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 275 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...
Page 283 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 133 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 84 - Through the dear might of Him that walk'd the waves; Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 239 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 84 - And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the Shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Book of Elegies Volume 3 of Select English classics [v. 3] |
| Editor | James Baldwin |
| Publisher | Silver, Burdett & Company, 1893 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 304 pages |
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