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beams beat beauty bed for Attila behold beneath bird blood are pure blush brain breast breath Callistes cloud crave crown Danube dark day is never Death DEMETER divine dream earth enchanted woods Enna eyes fair fierce angel finger fire flame flowers GEORGE MEREDITH grass grave green grey hand hear heard heart heaven Iambe Ildico juggled knew lady laughed leap light look Lord Dusiote lyre Melampus mind morn music And song never darkened nigh night o'er pipe RADCLIFFE COLLEGE Red of heat robe rose round sang seems shade shadow sight sing smile song and blood soul sound spirit Spring star stood stream sweet swift thee here obscure things thou throat thrush track tree Twas vale voice wave Westermain whirl White of heat whitebeam wild wild thing wind wine wing wonder woods young youth
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Page 51 - Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar. Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling wellspring Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.
Page 177 - ON a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened, Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose.
Page 58 - Slain are the poppies that shot their random scarlet Quick amid the wheatears: wound about the waist, Gathered, see these brides of earth one blush of ripeness! O the nutbrown tresses nodding interlaced! * Large and smoky red the sun's cold disk drops, Clipped by naked hills, on violet shaded snow: Eastward large and still lights up a bower of moonrise, Whence at her leisure steps the moon aglow.
Page 6 - Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which overflows...
Page 43 - For love we Earth, then serve we all ; Her mystic secret then is ours : We fall, or view our treasures fall, Unclouded, as beholds her flowers Earth, from a night of frosty wreck, Enrobed in morning's mounted fire, When lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
Page 59 - Hither she comes; she comes to me; she lingers, Deepens her brown eyebrows, while in new surprise High rise the lashes in wonder of a stranger; Yet am I the light and living of her eyes.
Page 81 - God! of whom music And song and blood are pure, The day is never darkened That had thee here obscure.
Page 188 - We saw the swallows gathering in the sky, And in the osier-isle we heard them noise. We had not to look back on summer joys, Or forward to a summer of bright dye: But in the largeness of the evening earth Our spirits grew as we went side by side. The hour became her husband and my bride. Love that had robbed us so, thus blessed our dearth ! The pilgrims of the year waxed...
Page 193 - I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and, I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy: Most, a dash between the two.
Page 17 - I neighbour the invisible So close that my consent Is only asked for spirits masked To leap from trees and flowers. And this because with them I dwell In thought, while calmly bent To read the lines dear Earth designs Shall speak her life on ours. Accept, she says ; it is not hard In woods ; but she in towns Repeats, accept...