Category: Novels
Had'st thou lived in days of old, O, what wonders had been told Of thy lively countenance, And thy humid eyes that dance In the midst of their own brightness, In the very fane of lightness; Over which thine eyebrows, leaning, Picture out each lovely meaning; In a dainty bend t...
"Know you not there is a power Strong as death, which from above Once was given--a fadeless dower, Blessed with the name of love! On it hangs how many a tale! Tales of human joy...
9. CHAPTER IX."A true good man there was there of religion, Pious and poor, the parson of a town: But rich he was in holy thought and work; And thereto a right holy man; a clerk That Christ's...
11. CHAPTER XI.Thus, when I felt the force of love, When all the passion fill'd my breast,-- When, trembling, with the storm I strove, And pray'd, but vainly pray'd, for rest; 'Twas tempest al...
2. CHAPTER II.Spring by Spring the branches duly Clothe themselves in tender flower; And for her sweet sake as truly All their fruit and fragrance shower: But the stream with careless laughte...
12. CHAPTER XII.Alfred Strickland had chosen the breakfast-room as being the least likely to be visited by any one after the morning's meal had been despatched, and had made himself tolerably c...
10. CHAPTER X."And what is life?--An hour glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated dream, Its length?--A minute's pause, a moment's thought;...
13. CHAPTER XIII."Still further on she crept with trembling feet, With hope a friend, with fear a foe to meet; And there was something fearful in the sight And in the sound of what appear'd to-n...
8. CHAPTER VIII."I saw the light that made the glossy leaves More glossy; the fair arm, the fairer cheek, Warmed by the eye intent on its pursuit; I saw the foot that, although half erect From...
3. CHAPTER III.Alas!----how changed that mien! How changed these timid looks have been, Since years of guilt and of disguise, Have steel'd her brow, and arm'd her eyes! No more of virgin terro...
1. CHAPTER I.Had'st thou lived in days of old, O, what wonders had been told Of thy lively countenance, And thy humid eyes that dance In the midst of their own brightness, In the very fane o...
7. CHAPTER VII.All the visitors had now arrived at Brampton Park, and were amusing themselves as well as the inclement weather would allow of, the snow still covering the ground, and the cold...
14. CHAPTER XIV."And the hours of darkness and the days of gloom, That shadow and shut out joys are come; And there's a mist on the laughing sea, And the flowers and leaves are nought to me; An...
5. CHAPTER V.O! if in this great world of strife, This mighty round of human life, We had no friends to cheer, O! then how cold the world would seem! How desolate the ebbing stream Of life f...
6. CHAPTER VI."A poore widow, some deal stoop'n in age, Was whilom dwelling in a narwe cottage Beside a grove standing in a dale. This widow which I tell you of my Tale Since thilke day that...
4. CHAPTER IV."O my swete mother, before all other For you I have most drede: But now adue! I must ensue, Where fortune doth me lede. All this make ye: now let us flee: The day cometh fast up...