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Page 26 - Books written when the soul is at spring-tide, When it is laden like a groaning sky • Before a thunder-storm, are power and gladness, And majesty and beauty. They seize the reader As tempests seize a ship, and bear him on With a wild joy. Some books are drenched sands, On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, Like a wrecked argosy.
Page 122 - ... In Winter's front, so fair 'mong its dark peers, It seems a straggler from the files of June, Which in its wanderings had lost its wits, And half its beauty; and, when it returned, Finding its old companions gone away, It joined November's troop, then marching past ; And so the frail thing comes, and greets...
Page 90 - We twain have met like ships upon the sea, Who hold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet ; One little hour ! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
Page 15 - Fame ! Fame ! Fame ! next grandest word to God ! 1 seek the look of Fame ! Poor fool — so tries Some lonely wanderer 'mong the desert sands By shouts to gain the notice of the Sphynx, Staring right on with calm eternal eyes.
Page 11 - ... years, My bubble pleasures, and my awful joys, As Hero gave her trembling sighs to find Delicious death on wet Leander's lip. Bare, bald, and tawdry, as a fingered moth, Is my poor life, but with one smile thou canst Clothe me with kingdoms. Wilt thou smile on me ? Wilt bid me die for thee ? 0 fair and cold ! As well may some wild maiden waste her love Upon the calm front of a marble Jove. I cannot draw regard of thy great eyes. I love thee, Poesy ! Thou art a rock, I, a weak wave, would break...
Page 188 - God is a worker. He has thickly strewn Infinity with grandeur. God is love ; He yet shall wipe away Creation's tears, And all the worlds shall summer in His smile.
Page 93 - The reason for this seems to be, that so abstract an idea as that attaching to the word
Page 198 - He told me once, The saddest thing that can befall a soul, Is when it loses faith in God and woman ; For he had lost them both — Lost I those gems — Though the world's throne stood empty in my path, I would go wandering back into my childhood, Searching for them with tears.
Page 30 - Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder harp of pines. When violets came and woods were green, And larks did skyward dart, A Love alit and white did sit Like an angel on his heart. The Lady Blanche was saintly fair, Nor proud, but meek her look; In her hazel eyes her thoughts lay clear As pebbles in a brook.
Page 121 - The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And, in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her.

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"A COMET OF A SEASON."; How Alexander Smith "Blazed" Fifty Years ...
In 1857, just after Smith's marriage, "City Poems" appeared, which was a comparative failure. "Edwin of Delta," which came out in l,el, was more successful, ...
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Deira: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
University of Edinburgh, and City Poems (1857) and Edwin of Deira (1861), an account of Christianitys arrival in Saxon Britain. ...
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“Spasm” and Class:weAytoun, George Gilfillan, Sydney Dobell, and ...
City Poems (1857) and Edwin of Deira (1861), an account of Christianity’s. arrival in Saxon Britain, found a measure of critical favor. In the years ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ victorian_poetry/ v042/ 42.4boos.pdf

JSTOR: George Meredith and the "Westminster Review"
He begins with a long notice of Alexander Smith's City Poems. ... The spirit and tone of Tennyson are reproduced in the 'City Poems'; it is impossible to ...
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VI. Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century ...
City Poems. Cambridge, 1857. Edwin of Deira. 1861. A Life Drama, City Poems, etc. [1901.] Poetical Works. Edinburgh, 1909. ...
www.bartleby.com/ 223/ 0600.html

A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics / Various
O. Noyes, md Ruskin's Elements of Drawing Sahara, une Ete dans le Scenes of Clerical Life Smith, Alexander, City Poems by Spanish Conquest in America, ...
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