The Deserted CottageGeorge Routledge, 1859 - 103 sidor |
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... From that bleak tenement He , many an evening , to his distant home In solitude returning , saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head , And 8 THE DESERTED COTTAGE .
... From that bleak tenement He , many an evening , to his distant home In solitude returning , saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head , And 8 THE DESERTED COTTAGE .
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... dark woods , Nourished Imagination in her growth , And gave the Mind that apprehensive power By which she is made quick to recognise The moral properties and scope of things . But eagerly he read , and read again , Whate'er the ...
... dark woods , Nourished Imagination in her growth , And gave the Mind that apprehensive power By which she is made quick to recognise The moral properties and scope of things . But eagerly he read , and read again , Whate'er the ...
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... season did he love Tempestuous nights - the conflict and the sounds That live in darkness : -from his intellect And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and I have heard him say 18 THE DESERTED COTTAGE .
... season did he love Tempestuous nights - the conflict and the sounds That live in darkness : -from his intellect And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and I have heard him say 18 THE DESERTED COTTAGE .
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... darker thought , Was melted all away ; so true was this That sometimes his religion seemed to me Self - taught , as of a dreamer in the woods ; Who to the model of his own pure heart Framed his belief , as grace divine inspired , Or ...
... darker thought , Was melted all away ; so true was this That sometimes his religion seemed to me Self - taught , as of a dreamer in the woods ; Who to the model of his own pure heart Framed his belief , as grace divine inspired , Or ...
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... dark hedges . So their days were spent In peace and comfort ; and a pretty boy Was their best hope , next to the God in heaven . " Not twenty years ago , but you , I think , Can scarcely bear it now in mind , there came Two blighting ...
... dark hedges . So their days were spent In peace and comfort ; and a pretty boy Was their best hope , next to the God in heaven . " Not twenty years ago , but you , I think , Can scarcely bear it now in mind , there came Two blighting ...
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Appeared a roofless babe behold beneath BIRKET FOSTER blessed brotherhood calm careless cheerful child cloud comfort cool refreshment cottage-bench course crag currants dark dead DESERTED COTTAGE dirge DITTO door drooped Dunston dwelling earth espied evermore face fear feel flower Friend garb garden GILBERT glad grave green grief happy hath heard heart Heaven hemp hills hope hour human humble kite knew LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS live lofty elms lowly Margaret Maypole shines mind mist moorland mountains mournful Nature nook o'er passed peace perceive pleasure poor poverty road rocks roofless Hut rustic sate Scotland season seemed shade shadows side sight silent solitude sorrow soul sound spake speak spirit staff steps stood storm summer summer tended cattle sweet tale task tears things Thither thoughts turf turned Twas vale voice walked wall Wanderer weeping youth
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Sida 14 - The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
Sida 14 - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love.
Sida 29 - Oh, sir, the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
Sida 54 - My Friend ! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more ; Be wise and cheerful ; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in the calm earth, and peace is here.
Sida 6 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts— The vision and the faculty divine— Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Sida 48 - Her infant babe Had from its mother caught the trick of grief, And sighed among its playthings.
Sida 12 - Of earth and sky. But he had felt the power Of Nature, and already was prepared, By his intense conceptions, to receive Deeply the lesson deep of love which he, Whom. Nature, by whatever means, has taught To feel intensely, cannot but receive.
Sida 101 - With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars— illumination of all gems ! By earthly nature had the effect been wrought Upon the dark materials of the storm Now pacified : on them, and on the coves And mountain-steeps and summits, whereunto The vapours had receded, taking there Their station under a cerulean sky.
Sida 53 - Was sapped ; and while she slept the nightly damps Did chill her breast ; and in the stormy day Her tattered clothes were ruffled by the wind ; Even at the side of her own fire. Yet still She loved this wretched spot, nor would for worlds Have parted hence ; and still that length of road, And this rude bench, one torturing hope endeared, Fast rooted at her heart : and here, my Friend, In sickness she remained ; and here she died, Last human Tenant of these ruined Walls.
Sida 6 - Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse, (Which, in the docile season of their youth, It was denied them to acquire, through lack Of culture and the inspiring aid of books, Or haply by a temper too severe, Or a nice backwardness afraid of shame...