Posthumous Poems of the Rev. George CrabbeCarey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835 - 297 pages |
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afraid behold Captain Elliot Danvers dare dear delight doubt dread dwell Dyson fair Fair ladies fame FAMILY OF LOVE fancy Farewell and Return fate father fear feel felt fond fortune Friendship gain gave gentle GEORGE CRABBE gout grave grief happy HAPPY DAY hear heard heart honour hope hopes and fears James jointure kind knew labour Lady lassie live look lover maid maiden mind nature kind never nymph o'er pain passed Patty peace Peter Phœbe pity poor praise pray pride race replied rest rich SAMUEL ROGERS scorn seemed shame sigh Silford Hall smile sorrow sought soul speak spirit spleen strong TALE taught tell thee things thou thought told true truth Uncle Villars walks wealth Widow wife wild wish wonder young youth
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Page 22 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls, by thousands they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the bishop they go.
Page 22 - And down through the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the Bishop they go. " ' They have whetted their teeth against the stones, And now they pick the Bishop's bones; They gnaw'd the flesh from every limb, For they were sent to do judgment on him.
Page 150 - A man approach'd me, by his grandchild led— A blind old man, and she a fair young maid, Listening in love to what her grandsire said. ' And thus with gentle voice he spoke — " Come lead me, lassie, to the shade, " Where willows grow beside the brook ; •• For well I know the sound it made, " When dashing o'er the stony rill, " It murmur'd to St. Osyth's Mill.
Page 44 - Sorrows like showers descend, and as the heart For them prepares, they good or ill impart ; Some on the mind, as on the ocean rain, Fall and disturb, but soon are lost again — Some, as to fertile lands, a boon bestow, And seed, that else had perish'd, live and grow ; Some fall on barren soil, and thence proceed The idle blossom, and the useless weed ; VOL.
Page 201 - There watch'da cur before the Miser's gate, A very cur, whom all men seem'd to hate ; Gaunt, savage, shaggy, with an eye that shone Like a live coal, and he possess'd but one ; His bark was wild and eager, and became That meagre body and that eye of flame ; His master prized him much, and Fang his name. His master fed him largely ; but not that, Nor aught of kindness, made the snarler fat.
Page 151 - O then, my lassie, lead the way To Comfort's Home, the ancient inn : That something holds, if we can pay — Old David is our living kin ; A servant once, he still preserves His name, and in his office serves !" " Alas ! that mine should be the fate Old David's sorrows to relate : But they were brief ; not long before He died, his office was no more. The kennel stands upon the ground, With something of the former sound...
Page 114 - The whistling Boy that holds the plough, Lured by the tale that soldiers tell, Resolves to part, yet knows not how To leave the land he loves so well. He now rejects the thought, and now Looks o'er the lea, and sighs
Page 152 - But they were brief ; not long before • • He died, his office was no more. • • The kennel stands upon the ground, " With something of the former sound.
Page 151 - Old Bulmer's Oak, is gone to sea. " The church-way walk is now no more, " And men must other ways explore : " Though this indeed promotion gains, " For this the park's new wall contains ; " And here I fear we shall not...
Page 150 - They've cut the brook a straighter bed : No shades the present lords allow, The miller only murmurs now ; The waters now his mill forsake, And form a pond they call a lake.