The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Band 86Archibald Constable and Company, 1820 |
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... Poetry ............ . Remarks on Marcian Colonna * 3 7 The Bystander . No. V. ~~~~~~~~~ ..59 Peter Bell v . Peter Bell . By Peter Cor- coran .... ............... Anecdotes of the late King and Queen..14 | Verses by a young Lady ...
... Poetry ............ . Remarks on Marcian Colonna * 3 7 The Bystander . No. V. ~~~~~~~~~ ..59 Peter Bell v . Peter Bell . By Peter Cor- coran .... ............... Anecdotes of the late King and Queen..14 | Verses by a young Lady ...
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... POETRY . In examining the early literary his tory of almost every nation with which we are acquainted , and in tracing the rise of the various branches of human knowledge , it will be found , that , a- mong these , Poetry claims a ...
... POETRY . In examining the early literary his tory of almost every nation with which we are acquainted , and in tracing the rise of the various branches of human knowledge , it will be found , that , a- mong these , Poetry claims a ...
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... poetry is the natural product of the occasion , -when a song , for instance , is composed or sung , for the first time , in the midst of the scenery it de- scribes , and accompanied by the cir- cumstances which form its subject , it ...
... poetry is the natural product of the occasion , -when a song , for instance , is composed or sung , for the first time , in the midst of the scenery it de- scribes , and accompanied by the cir- cumstances which form its subject , it ...
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... poetry thus formed is abounding in expressions of uncom- mon eloquence and beauty , all that has been preserved to us of the ab- original poetry of those countries which are now civilized , and many fragments which travellers have col ...
... poetry thus formed is abounding in expressions of uncom- mon eloquence and beauty , all that has been preserved to us of the ab- original poetry of those countries which are now civilized , and many fragments which travellers have col ...
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Seite 309 - Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme...
Seite 309 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Seite 536 - Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert ; go not forth : behold, He is in the secret chambers ; believe it not.
Seite 308 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Seite 309 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Seite 309 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards : Already with thee ! tender is the night...
Seite 309 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Seite 308 - Anon his heart revives : her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one ; Loosens her fragrant bodice ; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees : Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St.
Seite 308 - Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray; Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again.
Seite 308 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings; And in the midst, 'mong thousand heraldries, And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings.