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NDEX OF  F IRST  L INES A book of Verses underneath the Bough

Germanic systems, See the philosophies all—Christian churches and tenets see, Yet underneath Socrates clearly see—and

to her mournful music tunèd be! Let not my plaints, poor lambkins, you amaze! There, underneath that dark and

d the gay green birk , How rich the hawthorn’s blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I

T HE WILD geese, flying in the night, behold Our sunken towns lie underneath a sea

True Trumpet Truth Tub Turn Turnspit Turtles Tweedle-Dum Twinkling Ugly Unanimity Unblest Uncle Unconcerned Under Underneath Understand Undone Uneasy University

forge, and nayles like clawes appeard. His yron cote, all overgrowne with rust, Was underneath enveloped with gold; Whose

a grave they made her, In the forest deep and darksome, Underneath the moaning

1596) Y OU lofty Pines, co-partners of my woe, When C HLORIS sitteth underneath your shade; To

Nor fear those watchful sentinels, Who charm the more their glance forbids, Chaste-glowing, underneath their lids, With fire

The lark trills soft to earth and skies; And underneath the green

ground; lying low &c. v.; crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate ( horizontal ) [See Horizontality ]; depressed.     ADVERB: UNDER; beneath, underneath; below; down, downwards; adown

the shell are crept, Suffer them not by envy to be blamed! But, underneath the shadow

his chariot but appear, Have you not made a universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To

and bless with breath The winds and air; whiles C UPID, underneath, With birds, with songs

at this figure from time to time as I pass by, contemplate it, stand underneath, and walk

And work—work—work, When the weather is warm and bright; While underneath the eaves

d the gay green birk,     How rich the hawthorn’s blossom,   10 As underneath their fragrant shade     I

swan of Avon!            To the Memory of Shakespeare. 2061     Underneath this sable hearse Lies

and sententiously. They say, look how many feathers she hath, so many eyes she hath underneath; so many tongues; so

Then would I wish thee touch my mistress’ pap, And hide thy left hand underneath her lap, I would

When last the glorious light of all the sky was underneath this globe and

Fate, Till the happier elves I hate, Who in moonlight dances turn Underneath the palmy

marching. Richm. Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends, Bruis’d underneath the yoke

the canon,—whence the river leaps A blade of silver underneath the moon

heart. The low-hung lamps stretched down the road With shadows drifting underneath, With a music

fill the Cup: what boots it to repeat How Time is slipping underneath our Feet: Unborn To

February tide, That cross’d the stream from side to side; So underneath the apple

like gold, And the cherry blooms burst with snow, And down underneath is the loveliest

stood, Sometimes for speed and skill in swimming strive: Now underneath they dived, now rose

the breeze, Gay as the dancing wind, and sweet, And, underneath the radiant

S OFTLY sinking through the snow, To our winter rest we go, Underneath the snow

And skies of gold, and ladies in bright tissue? Now underneath a blue

did heat; When to my flock my daily woes I chat, And underneath a broad

And work—work—work, When the weather is warm and bright— While underneath the eaves

eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And underneath the traitor

One: Life XLII S URGEONS must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs

Cecilia’s Day, 1687 F ROM Harmony, from heavenly Harmony This universal frame began: When Nature underneath a heap

Cecilia’s Day, 1687 F ROM harmony, from heavenly harmony,         This universal frame began:     When nature underneath a heap

shelter now shall find  105 Within his particolour’d mind,       But, from this valour, sad       Shrink underneath the plaid

to a dismal clangor heard from far, ‘Warwick, revenge! brother, revenge my death!’ So, underneath the belly

descended from above   And bow’d the heavens high; And underneath his feet he cast

descended from above   And bow’d the heavens high; And underneath his feet he cast

Once they could freely roam, As in their Island home, Safe far abroad as underneath her guns; Or, should

ferry of the free. And henceforth there shall be no chain, Save underneath the sea

whole church should wonder and admire. But the twelfth sat by himself underneath the clock

roots of the plane-trees and upon the grass-plots underneath them. This summer-house

The earth does not exhibit itself, nor refuse to exhibit itself—possesses still underneath; Underneath the ostensible

didn’t know it was a woman until she came down. She was crushed underneath things. She lived a

Behind this is a large store-room and granary, and underneath, a spacious

retirement, any sequestration From open haunts and popularity. Ely. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle

on my eyelids laid. And as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit

eye-lids laid.  150 And as I wake, sweet musick breath   Above, about, or underneath,   Sent by som spirit

cat-o’-mountain Is calm as her babe’s sleep compared with thee! And underneath that face, like summer

cat-o’-mountain Is calm as her babe’s sleep compared with thee! And underneath that face, like summer

as ’t were dreaming in a dozy rest; The scribbled benches underneath the porch

himself in it, Eying through eddying green waters the green-tinting floor underneath them, Eying the

a basilisk as he; or spake So horribly, but that I thought my tongue Bore thunder underneath, as much as his

and S OMERSET, fighting; S OMERSET is killed. Rich. So, lie thou there; For underneath an alehouse’ paltry sign

even if it were to fall, and the Pope himself was underneath, the mischief

a little personal strength; And pause us, till these rebels, now afoot, Come underneath the yoke

tree scrub we dashed; And the golden-tinted fern leaves, how they rustled underneath: And the

we believe. 28   For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor

impulsive attachments that had put him into the leading of others, has underneath it a base

we believe. 28   For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor

K ING ( prostrating himself ). Behold him,—by this late Anticipation of resistless fate, Thus underneath your feet his golden

struggles, and less for the fate of those who were underneath, so long as it

of pink to his hands, his neck, his temple, and even underneath his hair: when he

mine eye Upon the wasted building, suddenly I head a child cry underneath a wall

nothingness setting up for a virtue; cowardliness with voluptuousness; fierce pride with nullity underneath it; the strutting

temper as well as of body marked him for their own. But underneath all superficial shortcomings of

heart ! Madrigal 20.   My Love, alas, is sick! Fie, envious Sickness ! Sonnet CIII.   I slept, when (underneath a laurel

walk rapidly through civilizations, governments, theories, Through poems, pageants, shows, to form great individuals. Underneath all, individuals! I swear

amazed Horror flies, And, over all, Shame veils his guiltie eyes, And underneath Hell’s hungrie throat

the Passengers dropping thro’ the Bridge, into the great Tide that flowed underneath it; and upon

over the doctor, and managed to strike a light underneath it. The wounded

a withered tree, and as he had no pail he put his leather cap underneath; but try as he

when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic

s a good dog!” Then suddenly I noticed he shivered, and shrank underneath the wraps

peace to Máhmúd on his golden throne! A book of verses underneath the bough

of Assaye Clash’d with his fiery few and won; And underneath another sun, Warring on

his tongue, His agile arm beats down their fatal points, And ’twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm An envious

young sprit was bowed down over a bow, and some acorns strewed underneath. Stephen Hopkins said, it

Herself to please the shepherd and his dame. But oft, when underneath the greenwood

the east, A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad; Where, underneath the grove

broad plate with a Copy of Verses written thereon, and underneath, the reason

shone, a jewel, in His crown, Swing low, sweet chariot, swing low. *** ( Underneath the southern

in their nature though they be, do not act upon the social fabric from underneath, as was for

to mark its progress—she took me into the room. I only recollect that underneath some white covering on

soul of Judas Iscariot Did make a gentle moan— “I will bury underneath the ground

until she found that, on account of my legs being short, it could go underneath me. It cramped and

s horns on the sensible Benedick’s head? Claud. Yea, and text underneath, ‘Here dwells Benedick the

the sight Of all that looke thereon with eyes unsound; And underneath His feet are to

Whom the summer evening sees Flashing in the dance’s whirls Underneath the starlit

respect in Rome,— Except immortal Cæsar,—speaking of Brutus, And groaning underneath this age’s yoke

nobler side, to feel the beatings of a heart underneath the sordid

in its brilliancy as the deep blue of midnight ocean, When underneath, with trembling motion, The