The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir, 第 2 巻

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Houghton, Osgood, 1880

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158 ページ - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands...
93 ページ - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, And as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
242 ページ - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
73 ページ - And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming, And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping...
70 ページ - And to hear how the water Comes down at Lodore, With its rush and its roar, As many a time They had seen it before. So I told them in rhyme, For of rhymes I had store; And...
71 ページ - The cataract strong Then plunges along, Striking and raging, As if a war waging Its caverns and rocks among; Rising and leaping, Sinking and creeping, Swelling and sweeping, Showering and springing, Flying and flinging, Writhing and ringing, Eddying and whisking, Spouting and frisking, Turning and twisting, Around and around With endless rebound! Smiting and fighting, A sight to delight in; Confounding, astounding, Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.
195 ページ - And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
151 ページ - IN happy hour doth he receive The Laurel, meed of famous Bards of yore, Which Dryden and diviner Spenser wore, . . In happy hour, and well may he rejoice, Whose earliest task must be To raise the exultant hymn for victory...
166 ページ - WHO counsels peace at this momentous hour, When God hath given deliverance to the oppress'd, And to the injured power ? Who counsels peace, when Vengeance like a flood Rolls on, no longer now to be repress'd ; When innocent blood From the four corners of the world cries out For justice upon one accursed head ; When Freedom hath her holy...
210 ページ - I thank thee, I thank thee, Hodeirah's son ! I thank thee for doing what can't be undone, For binding thyself in the chain I have spun ! ' Then from his head she wrench'd A lock of his raven hair, And cast it in the fire, And cried aloud as it burnt, ' Sister ! Sister ! hear my voice ! 'Sister! Sister! come and rejoice! The thread is spun, The prize is won, The work is done, For I have made captive Hodeirah's Son.

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