Melodies of English Verse: Selections for MemorizingHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 184 من الصفحات |
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a b b rhyme ALFRED TENNYSON bab rhyme beauty bells birds breath Canto catalectic cent verse Coleridge COUPLETS dark disposal of rhyme doth double ending earth eight syllable eyes five accent verse flower four accent verse Four Line Stanza Free disposal hath heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Iambics five Iambics four Iambics three interior rhyme JOHN MILTON Keats light melodies Milton Mixed anapæstics Mixed prevailing foot moon morn Mother Watson night o'er ocean old familiar faces Ozymandias PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY poetry prevailing foot anapæstic Prevailing foot iambic Prevailing foot trochaic Queen rhyme in five rhyme in four rhyme in three ROBERT BROWNING Shakespeare showers Sir John Moore six accent verse sleep Song soul sound Spring stars sweet syllable five accent thee things thou three accent verse three and four thro Trochaics four Unrhymed four Vaughan WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind
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الصفحة 30 - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes, — So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name.
الصفحة 124 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
الصفحة 54 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
الصفحة 87 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
الصفحة 113 - HEAR the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
الصفحة 28 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
الصفحة 108 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he, not a...
الصفحة 88 - There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass ; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
الصفحة 29 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
الصفحة 57 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.