Identifier: poeticalworksoft1880hood (find matches)
Title: The poetical works of Thomas Hood
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845
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Publisher: London New York : George Routledge
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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ds to rot, And with the next days sun to be forgot. CII.Anon, he raised afresh his weapon keen ;But still the gracious shade disarmed his aim,Stepping with brave alacrity between,And made his sere arm powerless and tame.His be perpetual glory, for the shameOf hoary Saturn in that grand defeat!But I must tell, how here Titania cameWith all her kneeling lieges, to entreatHis kindly succour, in sad tones, but sweet. cm. Saying, Thou seest a wretched queen before thee, The fading power of a failing land, Who for her kingdom kneeleth to implore thee, Now menaced by this tyrants spoiling hand ; No one but thee can hopefully withstand That crooked blade he longeth so to lift. 1 pray thee blind him with his own vile sand,Which only times all ruins by its drift, Or prune his eagle wings that are so swift. Civ. Or take him by that sole and grizzled tuft,That hangs upon his bald and barren crown ;And we will sing to see him so rebuffed,And lend our little mights to pull him down, .- ■
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.A* THE PLEA OF THE MIDSUMMER FAIRIES. 2$ And make brave sport of his malicious frown,For all his boastful mockery oer men ;For thou wast born I know for this renown,By my most magical and inward ken,That readeth evn a* Fates forestalling pen. cv. Nay, by the golden lustre of thine eye,And by thy brows most fair and ample span,Thoughts glorious palace, framed for fancies high,And by thy cheek thus passionately wan,I know the signs of an immortal man,—Natures chief darling, and illustrious mate,Destined to foil old Deaths oblivious plan,And shine untarnished by the fogs of Fate,Times famous rival till the final date ! CVI. O shield us then from this usurping Time,And we will visit thee in moonlight dreams ;And teach thee tunes to wed unto thy rhyme,And dance about thee in all midnight gleams,Giving thee glimpses of our magic schemes,Such as no mortals eye hath even seen :And, for thy love to us in our extremes,Will ever keep thy chaplet fresh and green,Such as no poets wreath hath ev

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