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Æsir answer'd Asgard Balder Balder back Balder Dead Balder's ship blind Boars Hill Brandan Breidablik bridge bright brother called Church of Brou Clough Cumner dark dear death didst Duchess earth Edda eyes father Fenris fields Frigga GIPSY gloom Gods golden gone grave grey grief hath hear heart Heaven Hela Hela's realm Hermod Heroes hills Hoder Homeric horse Kensington Gardens labour lake light Lityerses live lone loved Matthew Arnold MICHAEL MACMILLAN Midgard mother mountain Nanna Nature Neckan Niflheim night o'er Odin once Oxford pass'd peace picturesque poem poet rode round Rugby Rugby Chapel sails sate Scholar-Gipsy sewed shepherd side simile sings Sleipner sonnet soul spake spirit stanza stars stone stood stream tears Thebes thee Theocritus thine things Thor thou hast Thyrsis tree Valhalla W. T. WEBB waves weep wood word Wordsworth Wytham youth
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Page 65 - The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;— on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 147 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Page 66 - At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Page 54 - For the cold strange eyes of a little Mermaiden, And the gleam of her golden hair. Come away, away, children. Come children, come down. The hoarse wind blows colder; Lights shine in the town.
Page 138 - He found us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round ; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth...
Page 66 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 52 - Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream...
Page 52 - Where the winds are all asleep ; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam. Where the salt weed sways in the stream, Where the sea-beasts, ranged all round, Feed in the ooze of their pasture-ground ; 40 Where the sea-snakes coil and twine, Dry their mail and bask in the brine ; Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye?
Page 83 - At some lone homestead in the Cumner hills, Where at her open door the housewife darns, Thou hast been seen, or hanging on a gate To watch the threshers in the mossy barns. Children, who early range these slopes and late For cresses from the rills...
Page 86 - O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames ; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims...