View now the winter storm! above, one cloud Vital spark of heavenly flame! Waken, lords and ladies gay. War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight We have been friends together We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths We mind not how the sun in the midsky We watch'd him, while the moonlight We were two daughters of one race Wedlock without love, some say Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade What bright soft thing is this What constitutes a State? What does little birdie say What hidest thou in thy treasure-caves and cells What is worth in anything What shall I do to be forever known What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted? What! wilt thou throw thy stone of malice now When he who adores thee has left but the name When I consider how my light is spent When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat When I have fears that I may cease to be When the lamp is shatter'd When the long-sounding curfew from afar When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye come hame When Time, or soon or late, shall bring When Time, who steals our years away When twilight steals along the ground Whence is that knocking? Where honor, or where conscience does not bind Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles Who can mistake great thoughts? Percy Bysshe Shelley James Beattie 210 220 George Gordon, Lord Byron. 428 365 393 433 William Shakespeare 39 68 571 284 262 When Israel of the Lord beloved When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes When o'er the hill the eastern star William Collins James Hogg Algernon Charles Swinburne. 553 With the soul a faculty abides. Without a stone to mark the spot "Woods, hills, and rivers, are now desolate Would'st see blithe looks, fresh cheeks beguile Ye banks and braes and streams around Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon Ye distant spires, ye antique tow'rs Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true Ye holy tow'rs that shade the wave-worn steep Ye men of Gades, armed with brazen shields Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song Yon moored mackerel fleet You are old, Father William, the young man cried You may give over plough, boys You meaner beauties of the night You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride You that think love can convey. |