Rose Aylmer's Home: In Three Volumes, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1865 |
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Page 134 - He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
Page 253 - Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic round the land ; From courts to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleased ; they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Page 21 - Though thrice a thousand years are past Since David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary King Ecclesiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every day renewing Fresh comments on the old, old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Ruin.
Page 115 - I work'd no bawds to tempt you; never practised The cunning and corrupting arts they study, That wander in the wild maze of desire ; Honest simplicity and truth were all The agents I employ'd ; and when I came To see you, it was with that reverence As I beheld the altars of the god...
Page 97 - Tears are not now thy due! from the world's toil, Gone to assume in heaven the brighter birth; A winged Angel, from thy mortal coil Escaped, thy glory lingers yet round earth! Christ's hallowed warrior living thou went'st forth, Christ's champion didst thou die; and now, blest Shade, The crown and palm of righteousness and worth Thou wear'st, with joys unspeakable repaid, Feeding thine eyes on things to fancy unportrayed!
Page 203 - ... dearest good mistake! His own success he thus pursues With frantic zeal for her sole sake. To lose her were his life to blight, Being loss to hers; to make her his, Except as helping her delight, He calls but incidental bliss; And holding life as so much pelf To buy her posies, learns this lore: He does not rightly love himself Who does not love another more.
Page 47 - For entrance to some larger place behind, And through the shade a glimmering brightness gave, 500 As of a torch that burnt within the cave. While here in deep suspense the traitor stood, The cautious virgin, who his steps pursu'd, Fearful to lose -the track, still kept in view Her faithless guide, and near the cavern drew.
Page 237 - O maiden, it comcth in beauty like thee. Beauteous river, gentle river, River of the golden sands, Like a silver band enfolding, Grassy leas, and golden lands, Which the ancient hills are holding In the hollows of their hands. Down beside the fields of story, Sung in many an ancient lay, Down by keep and castle hoary, Down by gorges grim and gray, With a noble undulation...
Page 237 - Through the woodlands calm and shady, Softly, sweetly, gently, slowly, Moving like a graceful lady, With a look serene and holy, With a beauteous melancholy, In the crystal of her eyes. Moving...
Page 69 - Was it her fancy when she thought The fitful breeze wild echoes brought Of boisterous wassailing ? Those strains Were mingled with the wailful moan Of captives toiling in their chains ; And...