The Student's Treasury of English Song: Containing Choice Selections from the Principal Poets of the Present Century

William Henry Davenport Adams

T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1873 - 512 Seiten

Inhalt

• THE SWALLOW: 5
• THE PUNISHMENT OF MARSYAS: 12
• THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE: 19
• THE STORMy Petrel: 28
• THE PROCESSION OF THE SEANYMPHS: 31
• MOURNERS Consoled: 33
• COWPERS GRAVE: 41
• THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN: 50
• ROMANCE: 57
• HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD: 64
• THE CITY OF THE FUTURE: 72
• THE NEW WORLD: 78
• A NIGHT SCENE IN GREECE: 84
• THE DEATH OF HUGO: 90
• A LAMENT: 96
• THE INDIANS DEATHSONG: 103
• THE LAST MAN: 109
• GREEN FIELDS OF ENGLAND: 115
• TO THE AUTUMNAL MOON: 124
• THE NIGHTINGALE: 133
• THE VILLAGE Workhouse: 144
• A GROUP OF GIPSIES: 152
• LOVES DEVOTION: 160
• A ROCKY LANDSCAPE: 205
• THE PAST: 214
• THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM: 256
• GONE FOR EVER: 260
• xvi: 265
• THE OLD AGE OF MILTON: 270
• THE HOLLOW OAK: 276
• THE NOTHINGNESS OF LIFE: 287
• NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE: 293
• THE DEATH OF CHASTELARD: 317
• Alfred Tennyson BORN 1809: 445
• AN ISLAND IN THE TROPICSTHE SOLITARY: 452
• A NEWYEARSEVE VISION OF THE FUTURE: 458
• THE THREE GODDESSES: 464
• THE SHELL: 470
• Written DURING THE RUSSIan War: 476
• REFLECTIONS IN A CHURCHYARD: 485

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 461 - 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.

Seite 129 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

Seite 401 - I sighed for thee. Thy brother Death came, and cried, Wouldst thou me? Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me? — And I replied, No, not thee! Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon — Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!

Seite 498 - Cuckoo-bird Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?

Seite 393 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, — we feel that it is there.

Seite 493 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea. Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.

Seite 458 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.

Seite 52 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.

Seite 393 - What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Student's Treasury of English Song: Containing Choice Selections from the Principal Poets of the Present Century
• Herausgeber: William Henry Davenport Adams
• Mitwirkende Personen: Thomas Nelson & Sons
• Verlag: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1873
• Original von: Harvard University
• Digitalisiert: 26. März 2008
• Länge: 512 Seiten