Leaves From the Poets' Laurels Author:Wood General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: W. Moxon, Son Description: Binding designed by John Leighton (as "Luke Limner"). Subjects: Poetry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Boo... more »ks edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LADY OF THE LAKE. 93 No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements rage, the fiend voices that rave Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace, then a joy. Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest! Robert Browning. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. (coronach.) He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain When our need was the sorest. 94 THE LADY OF THE LAKE. The font, re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory ; The autumn winds rushing, Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi, Sage counsel in cumber, Red hand in the foray, How sound is thy slumber ! Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone and for ever! Sir Walter Scott.THE PALACE OF ART. Full of long-sounding corridors it was, That over-vaulted grateful gloom, Thro' which the livelong day my soul did pass, Well-pleased, from room to room. Full of great rooms an...« less