Tales of a Wayside InnHoughton, Mifflin, 1887 - 313 ページ |
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Angel answered arrow beard BELL OF ATRI bells beneath birds Castine Charlemagne Church cried dark Dead rides Sir death door dream Drontheim Earl Eginhard eyes fairest of women falcon fear Federigo fire fled forward cast gate gazed gleamed gold guest Hakon hand hath head hear heard heart Iceland INTERLUDE Jarl Killingworth King Olaf King Svend land laughed light listened look Lord loud melodies monk morning Morten of Fogelsang night Norway o'er Ocean Song Odin Olaf the King Olaf's Priest Olger passed pause Poet prayer Queen rain rhymes rides Sir Morten ring rose round Scald sea-kale ship Sicilian Sigrid the Haughty Sigurd Sigurd the Bishop silent singing Skerry smile song sound spake steed stood street sweet sword tale Thangbrand thee Thor Thora Thorberg Skafting thou thought Thyri town unto voice warlock band warlocks wind wood woodland crests words
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20 ページ - And only pausing to fire and load. So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo...
16 ページ - Good-night !" and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, « And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide. Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street, Wanders and watches with eager ears.
19 ページ - That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
43 ページ - But leaped into the blackness of the night, And vanished like a spectre from his sight. Robert of Sicily, brother of Pope Urbane And Valmond, Emperor of Allemaine...
49 ページ - He has put down the mighty from their seat, And has exalted them of low degree!' And through the chant a second melody Rose like the throbbing of a single string : 'I am an Angel, and thou art the King!
130 ページ - The robin and the bluebird, piping loud, Filled all the blossoming orchards with their glee; The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be; And hungry crows, assembled in a crowd, Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly, Knowing who hears the ravens cry, and said: "Give us, O Lord, this day, our daily bread!
136 ページ - Your nooning in the shade of bush and brake? ,"You call them thieves and pillagers ; but know, They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from the cornfields drive the insidious foe, And from your harvests keep a hundred harms ; Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-atarms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail.
47 ページ - ... rode, making huge merriment In all the country towns through which they went. The Pope received them with great pomp and blare Of bannered trumpets, on Saint Peter's square, Giving his benediction and embrace, Fervent, and full of apostolic grace. While with congratulations and with prayers He entertained the Angel unawares, Robert, the Jester, bursting through the crowd, Into their presence rushed, and cried aloud, "I am the King!
45 ページ - And when the Angel met him on his way, And half in earnest, half in jest, would say, Sternly, though tenderly, that he might feel The velvet scabbard held a sword of steel, "Art thou the king?
151 ページ - Eating his head off in my stables here, When rents are low and provender is dear? Let him go feed upon the public ways ; I want him only for the holidays.