Set that boding beard at head Of my Athenian house?
I dare not tell him all The evil that my boding heart predicts!
O 'tis so hard to me this night to leave thee-- A boding fear possesses me!
What's this I feel, a boding in my soul, As if this day were fatal?
Rather let him go: So my poor boding heart would have it be, Without a reason.
What springs up all at once so sweetly boding in my heart, and stills the soft air of sadness?
In solitude the heavenly heart unfolded itself to a flower-chalice of almighty love, upturned to the supreme face of the father, and resting on the bliss-boding bosom of the sweetly solemn mother.
More than once in the course of my experiences I have found myself in peril of my own life, but my feelings on such occasions have been nothing to the awful bodingsuspense of that search, through the still, unearthly midnight silence.
And they were downcast and oppressed with boding cares, and they held counsel among themselves what to do; for Rustem was their mainstay, and they knew that, bereft of his arm and counsel, they could not stand against this Turk.
The pretty princess might almost have had a boding what sort of husband they had for her, for she begged and prayed, even on her knees, that her father would leave her; but her sisters were all espoused, and there was no help for it.
And let it be decided as it may, I see with boding heart the near approach 60 Of an ill-starred unblest catastrophe.
And to the soul which the unwonted and momentary remorse awakened, a boding voice whispered, "And thinkest thou that thy schemes shall prosper, and thy aspirations succeed?
He slept ill that night,--dark and boding dreams disturbed his slumber.
My heart believes my love; but still My boding mind presages ill: For luckless ever was our love, Dark as the sky that hung above.
But it is not always that "a calm" or "boding silence reigns.
How does this accord with the poet Thomson's description of the behaviour of animals during a summer thunderstorm, or rather the boding silence that precedes it?
Profoundly dreamt a youth on Norland waste; But no—it is not waste where fairy rings Reflect the past as well as future things, When love and woe in boding tones are drest.
Then amazed she saw His cheek was tearful, and with boding soul She shrank instinctive from the hidden wound, Nor dared to rouse him weeping.
Nor let the glory of a little span Disturb thy boding heart: the hour shall come When all the chiefs shall meet.
New signs of terror to my boding soul Are pictured;--in amazement lost I stand!
Sudden the deed of death has shown Whate'er my boding fears portrayed.
Ah see in yonder gloomy Grove The Shepherd tells his tale of Love And clasps the wanton fair: While winds and trees and shades conspire To fann with Love the Gentle Fire, And banish every black and boding care.
In the red and boding glare of those ominous war-fires she sees him as she saw him that night.
And if the sun illumes the east, And sheds his gladsome ray, Some boding mist, or passing cloud Will threat the rising day.
Ferrier's mind went wandering with a sort of boding fierceness; he framed dramatic pictures of all that was passing in the chaotic ruin of shattered seas that rushed and seethed around.
