Simple poems, ed., with biogr. and notes, by W.E. MullinsWilliam Edward Mullins 1874 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accented syllables adjective Agincourt alliteration armour Arthur Holmes Assistant Master ballad battle battle of Blenheim Blenheim born brave Cambridge cannon child connection in meaning Cowper's cried death died drum Duke Edited England English word meaning epithet Erpingham Explain the construction expressed famous victory fast father force France FRANCIS STORR French Give hence Hohenlinden illustrating the difference Imperfect and Past introduction John Henry Blunt Kempenfelt King Henry Lantern Last Minstrel Latin Latin word meaning literally Lord Ullin's Daughter Lucy Gray M.A. A Key Marlborough College Master in Rugby metaphor MICHAEL DRAYTON night noun o'er Old English word Oxford Parse Past Participle peculiar plough poet prefix preposition Quoth rhyme Rivingtons London root Rosabelle Roslin round Royal George Rugby School Saint Crispin's Day sentences SHELLEY ship shore shroud SIR JOHN MOORE speech stanzas stormy thee THOMAS CAMPBELL Trinity College Twas verb wild Wordsworth's
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 13 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Seite 69 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, — We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For...
Seite 12 - But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained snow, And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. 'Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds rolling dun..
Seite 27 - They now to fight are gone, Armour on armour shone, Drum now to drum did groan, To hear was wonder ; That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake, Trumpet to trumpet spake, Thunder to thunder.
Seite 12 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Seite 13 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Seite 11 - The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide ; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. At day-break on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor ; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door.
Seite 13 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry.
Seite 23 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh!
Seite 12 - They followed from the snowy bank Those footmarks, one by one, Into the middle of the plank; And further there were none ! — Yet some maintain that to this day She is a living child ; That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome wild. O'er rough and smooth she trips along, And never looks behind; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.