Beachy Head: With Other Poems, Volume 1Author, 1807 - 219 pages |
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... Never , never thou ! Imperial mistress of the obedient sea ; But thou , in thy integrity secure , Shalt now undaunted meet a world in arms . England ! ' twas where this promontory rears Its rugged brow above the channel wave , Parting ...
... Never , never thou ! Imperial mistress of the obedient sea ; But thou , in thy integrity secure , Shalt now undaunted meet a world in arms . England ! ' twas where this promontory rears Its rugged brow above the channel wave , Parting ...
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... never feels ; and his industrious mate Shares in his labour . Where the brook is traced By crouding osiers , and the black coot hides Among the plashy reeds , her diving brood , The matron wades ; gathering the long green rush That well ...
... never feels ; and his industrious mate Shares in his labour . Where the brook is traced By crouding osiers , and the black coot hides Among the plashy reeds , her diving brood , The matron wades ; gathering the long green rush That well ...
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... never ask'd What good or evil means . The boy That on the river's margin gaily plays , Has heard that Death is there - He knows not Death , And therefore fears it not ; and venturing in He gains a bullrush , or a minnow - then , At ...
... never ask'd What good or evil means . The boy That on the river's margin gaily plays , Has heard that Death is there - He knows not Death , And therefore fears it not ; and venturing in He gains a bullrush , or a minnow - then , At ...
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... never worse applied ? The village girl is happy , who sets forth To distant fair , gay in her Sunday suit , With cherry colour'd knots , and flourish'd shawl , And bonnet newly purchas'd . So is he Her little brother , who his mimic ...
... never worse applied ? The village girl is happy , who sets forth To distant fair , gay in her Sunday suit , With cherry colour'd knots , and flourish'd shawl , And bonnet newly purchas'd . So is he Her little brother , who his mimic ...
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... never roll'd its surge . Does Nature then Mimic , in wanton mood , fantastic shapes Of bivalves , and inwreathed volutes , that cling To the dark sea - rock of the wat❜ry world ? Or did this range of chalky mountains , once Form a vast ...
... never roll'd its surge . Does Nature then Mimic , in wanton mood , fantastic shapes Of bivalves , and inwreathed volutes , that cling To the dark sea - rock of the wat❜ry world ? Or did this range of chalky mountains , once Form a vast ...
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anémones appears BEACHY HEAD beauty Beneath bird bird's foot trefoil bloom bower breast bright brow buds Byssus called chalk Choughs Cistus cliffs clouds coast Conium crouding curlew dark dear deep distant elegant eyes fabled fair Fancy Fancy's fern floating flock flood Flora flowers Folly Form'd gale Galium Gannets glowing gray green happy heard heath hides hills hollow hour hues insects Ivy green labour Lark leaves Leontodon light Line 11 Line 9 morning mountain murmuring native nest never night Normans o'er Ophrys pale Pinna plants purple rays rear'd rears rocks Rose round rude sail Saint Monica Scandix scarce Scutellaria shade shepherds shew Sicily sigh silver sings soft soothing spatha spring stream summer Sussex tears thorn thou thro tide toil tormentil Torrington trace tribe Trinacria tufted turf vale Viburnum wandering waves wild willowy wind wings Woodlarks woods wreath
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Page 79 - SWALLOW The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding, and, beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath, of May.
Page 21 - To ease his panting team, stopp'd with a stone The grating wheel. Advancing higher still The prospect widens, and the village church But little, o'er the lowly roofs around Rears its gray belfry, and its simple vane...
Page 24 - I loved to trace the brooks whose humid banks Nourish the harebell, and the freckled pagil; And stroll among o'ershadowing woods of beech, Lending in Summer, from the heats of noon A whispering shade; while haply there reclines Some pensive lover of uncultured flowers...
Page 79 - The gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The silver wreath of May. The welcome guest of settled Spring...
Page 181 - But oh! what joy it was to hear him sing In summer, when the day began to spring, Stretching his neck, and warbling in his throat; Solus cum sola then was all his note. For in the days of yore, the birds of parts Were bred to speak, and sing, and learn the liberal arts.
Page 115 - Gatherest thy fringed mantle round Thy bosom, at the closing hour, When nightdrops bathe the turfy ground, Unlike Silene, who declines The gansh noontide's blazing light ; But when the evening crescent shines. Gives all her sweetness to the night. Thus in each flower and simple bell. That in our path betrodden lie, Are sweet remembrancers who tell How fast their winged moments fly.
Page 22 - The upland shepherd rears his modest home, There wanders by, a little nameless stream That from the hill wells forth, bright now and clear, Or after rain with chalky mixture gray, But still refreshing in its shallow course, The cottage garden; most for use design'd, Yet not of beauty destitute.
Page 111 - Are faithful monitors, who tell How pass the hours and seasons by. The greenrobed children of the Spring Will mark the periods as they pass, Mingle with leaves Time's feathered wing, And bind with flowers his silent glass.
Page 82 - Thus lost to life, what favouring dream Bids you to happier hours awake ; And tells, that dancing in the beam, The light gnat hovers o'er the stream, The May-fly on the lake ? Or if, by instinct taught to know Approaching dearth of insect food ; To isles and willowy aits you go, And...
Page 23 - And pansies rayed, and freaked and mottled pinks Grow among balm, and rosemary and rue; There honeysuckles flaunt, and roses blow Almost uncultured: some with dark green leaves Contrast their flowers of pure unsullied white; Others like velvet robes...