The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems. 1927Constable & Company, Limited; New York, 1927 |
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ancient ANTISTROPHE Asgard Aurelian bard battle beauty beneath blast breast breath breeze bright caves charms chimæras Clonar clouds dark deep dread Druids dwelling earthly edition Euphrates ev'ry eyes fancy fate Fiolfar fire flame flow foes gale Gallienus genii Genius glory glow grove hear heaven Heimdaller hill kings light Lochlin lonely loud lyre maid merrymen mighty mind muse mystic night Nitalpha Norway numbers o'er ocean Odenathus Odin pale Palmyra Peacock Peneus PHILOSOPHY OF MELANCHOLY plain poem poured pow'r Proteus rage reign resound rise roar roll Roman round ruin rush sacred scenes shade shore silent Sir Hornbook Sir Proteus smile song soul sound spirit splendor storm stream sublime Surtur sweet swift T. L. PEACOCK tempest Thames thee thine THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK thou Tlamin tomb tower Vaballathus vale verso voice wake wandering waves wild woods youth Zabdas Zenobia δε Ζευς
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 300 - Fleet Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
الصفحة 26 - Europe has produced several illustrious women who have sustained with glory the weight of empire ; nor is our own age destitute of such distinguished characters. But if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only female whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia.
الصفحة 31 - Why dost thou build the ball, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day : yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.
الصفحة 165 - Muoiono le città, muoiono i regni, copre i fasti e le pompe arena ed erba, e l'uom d'esser mortal par che si sdegni: oh nostra mente cupida e superba!
الصفحة 30 - The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: But God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, And shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, And like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
الصفحة 376 - ... inquit >frondoso vertice collem/ - quis deus, incertum est - habitat deus...
الصفحة 282 - Come, listen to a tale of times of old! Come, for ye know me! I am he who sung The maid of Arc; and I am he who framed Of Thalaba the wild and wonderous song.
الصفحة 26 - Aurelian had no sooner secured the person and provinces of Tetricus than he turned his arms against Zenobia, the celebrated Queen of Palmyra and the East. Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who have sustained with glory the weight of empire, nor is our own age destitute of such distinguished char- s acters.
الصفحة 228 - ... medio campi albentia ossa, ut fugerant, ut restiterant, disiecta vel aggerata. adiacebant fragmina telorum equorumque artus, simul truncis arborum antefixa ora. lucis propinquis barbarae arae, apud quas tribunos ac primorum ordinum centuriones mactaverant.
الصفحة 229 - ... that the whole was the work of the three legions. Farther on were traced the ruins of a rampart and the hollow of a ditch well nigh filled up. This was supposed to be the spot where the few who escaped the general massacre, made their last effort, and perished in the attempt. The plains around were white with bones...