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Smit with exceeding sorrow unto Death. - The Lover's Tale (l. 597) [Sorrow] All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all; The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll, And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul. - The May Queen (conclusion) [March] For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. - The May Queen (st. 1) [May] And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. - The May Queen (st. 8) [Cowslips] It seem'd so hard at first, mother, to leave the blessed sun, And now it seems as hard to stay--and yet His will be done! But still I think it can't be long before I find release; And that good man, the clergyman, has told me words of peace. - The May-Queen--Conclusion (st. 3) [Resignation] Who would be A mermaid fair, Singing alone, Combing her hair Under the sea, In a golden curl With a comb of pearl, On a throne? I would be a mermaid fair; I would sing to myself the whole of the day; With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair; And still as I comb I would sing and say, "Who is it loves me? who loves not me?" - The Mermaid [Mermaids] In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine. - The Miller's Daughter [Story Telling] I watch'd the little circles die; They past into the level flood. - The Miller's Daughter (st. 10) [Circles] Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret. - The Miller's Daughter (st. 28) [Love] What profits now to understand The merits of a spotless shirt-- A dapper boot--a little hand-- If half the little soul is dirt. - The New Timon and the Poets, appeared in "Punch", Feb. 28, 1846, signed Alcibiades [Soul] I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. - The Palace of Art (st. 1) [Pleasure] And rolling far along the gloomy shores The voice of days of old and days to be. - The Passing of Arthur [Voice] As if some lesser God had made the world, And had not-force to shape it as he would. - The Passing of Arthur (l. 14) [Creation] The poet in a golden clime was born, With golden stars above; Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love. - The Poet [Poets] The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey. - The Poet's Song [Hawks] O we fell out, I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears. - The Princess (canto II, song) [Quarreling] Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair. - The Princess (canto IV, l. 21) [Tears] The water-lily starts and slides Upon the level in little puffs of wind, Tho' anchor'd to the bottom. - The Princess (IV, l. 236) [Water Lilies] There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun. - The Princess (pt. IV) [Sun] Home they brought her warrior dead. - The Princess (song at end of canto V) [Soldiers] The woman is so hard Upon the woman. - The Princess (VI) [Women] For woman is not undeveloped man But diverse; could we make her as the man Sweet love were slain; his dearest bond is this Not like to like but like in difference. - The Princess (VII) [Women] Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. - The Princess (VII) [Meteors] Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake; So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom, and be lost in me. - The Princess (VII, l. 171) [Water Lilies] With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair. - The Princess--Prologue (l. 141) [Women] Displaying page 16 of 18 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17 18
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