Over the Hills to BroadwayPorter & Coates, 1893 - 60页 |
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第5页 - To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
第4页 - I flattered all the beauteous country round, As poets use, the skies, the clouds, the fields, The happy violets hiding from the roads The primroses run down to, carrying gold ; The tangled hedgerows, where the cows push out Impatient horns and tolerant churning mouths...
第17页 - To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day ; and the young people so merry one with another ! and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.
第39页 - And she may be humble or proud, my lady ; Or that sweet calm which is just between ; But whenever she comes she will find me ready To do her homage, my Queen, my Queen...
第32页 - But when the face of Sextus Was seen among the foes, A yell that rent the firmament From all the town arose. On the house-tops was no woman But spat towards him and hissed, No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist.
第21页 - God and complain with all meekness unto the officer that is set of God to forbid such violence. And if the gentlemen that dwell about thee be tyrants, be ready to help to fetch home their wood, to plough their land, to bring in their harvest, and so forth ; and let thy wife visit my lady now and then with a couple of fat hens or a fat capon, and such like, and then thou shall possess all the remnant in rest, or else one quarrel or other may be picked with thee, to make thee quit of all together.
第5页 - Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment ? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye Watching the sailing cloudlet's bright career, He mourns that day so soon has glided by : E'en like the passage of an angel's...
第21页 - Yea, poll thyself and prevent other, and give the bailiff or like officer, now a capon, now a pig, now a goose, and so to thy landlord likewise : or if thou have a great farm, now a lamb, now a calf; and let thy wife visit thy landlady three or four times in the year, with spiced cakes, and apples, pears, cherries, and such like.
第39页 - Whatever she does it will then be right. She may be humble or proud, my lady, Or that sweet calm which is just between; And whenever she comes she will find me ready To do her homage, my queen, my queen! But she must be courteous, she must be...
第36页 - I've lost the comfort of my life, Death came and took away my wife. And now I don't know what to do, Lest death should come and take me too.