The Poetical Works of Thomas AirdWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1878 - 453 páginas |
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POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS AIRD Thomas 1802-1876 Aird,Jardine 1834-1910 Wallace Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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AFRA Aird Arth Azala beauty beneath Blanche bless blood brow burst cave Chayr child comes cried Culdee dare dark dear death doom Duch DUCHESS OF WOLD Dumfries Dunley Tower earth Exeunt eyes face father fear fell Fezzan fire gate GHOST glad gleams glory grace green hand hanging harp haste head hear heard heart Heaven Herodion hills holy hour King King's Oak kissed Lady Mer LADY MERVYN land light look LORD DUNLEY LORD WOLD Lyre maid Mervyn Castle moon morn mother MOUNTNORRIS ne'er night o'er Orpah Othuriel Phil PHILIP DE VALMA round SCENE silent Sir Lionel sleep soft song sorrow soul spirit sweet tears tell thee things THOMAS AIRD thou Torthil traitor trees trembling Twas Twill wild Wold Castle Wold's wonder woods young youth ZEBRA Zemberbo
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Página lxix - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página liii - AULD LANG SYNE. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind! Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne ? CHORUS. For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o...
Página lxxvi - tis an old belief That on some solemn shore, Beyond the sphere of grief," Dear friends shall meet once more — Beyond the sphere of time And sin and fate's control, Serene in endless prime Of body and of soul. That creed I fain would keep, That hope I'll not forego ; Eternal be the sleep, Unless to waken so.
Página 40 - The awful walls of shadows round might dusky mountains seem. But never holy light hath touched an outline with its gleam ; Tis but the eye's bewildered sense that fain would rest on form, And make night's thick blind presence to created shapes conform. No stone is moved on mountain here by creeping creature crossed, No lonely harper comes to harp upon this fiery coast...
Página 40 - No lonely harper comes to harp upon this fiery coast; Here all is solemn idleness; no music here, no jars, Where silence guards the coast ere thrill her everlasting bars; No sun here shines on wanton isles; but o'er the burning sheet A rim of restless halo shakes, which marks the internal heat; As in the days of beauteous earth we see, with dazzled sight, The red and setting sun o'erflow with rings of welling light.
Página 232 - The wind which lifts the streaming tree, The skies seem cold and strange to me : I feel a hand untwist the chain Of all thy love, with shivering pain, From round my heart. This bosom's bare, And less than wonted life is there. Ay, well indeed it may be so ! And well for thee my tears...
Página 398 - ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LYRIC POETRY AND MUSIC OF SCOTLAND. By WILLIAM STENHOUSE. Originally compiled to accompany the ' Scots Musical Museum,' and now published separately, with Additional Notes and Illustrations. Svo, 7s. 6d. PROFESSOR WILSON'S POEMS. Containing the 'Isle of Palms,' the 'City of the Plague,' 'Unimore,
Página 42 - Dreamer kissed till his lava breast was cool. In dread revulsion woke the Fiend, as from a mighty blow, And sprung a moment on his wing his wonted strength to know; Like ghosts that bend and glare on dark and scattered shores of night, So turned he to each point of heaven to know his dream aright.
Página 398 - have so often in imagination transported us from solitude to the social circle, and whose vivid pictures of flood and fell, of loch and glen, have carried us in thought from the smoke, din, and pent-up opulence of London, to the rushing stream, or tranquil tarn, or those mountain ranges,
Página 397 - POLLOK. The Course of Time : A Poem. By ROBERT POLLOK, AM Small fcap. 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. The Cottage Edition, 32mo, sewed, 8d. The Same, cloth, gilt edges, 1s. 6d. Another Edition, with Illustrations by Birket Foster and others, fcap., gilt cloth, 3s. 6d., or with edges gilt, 4s.