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... Earth hides his date and years ; But , long before the once - loved name Is sunk or worn away , No lip the silent dust may claim , That pressed the breathing clay . Go where the ancient pathway guides , See where our sires laid down ...
... Earth hides his date and years ; But , long before the once - loved name Is sunk or worn away , No lip the silent dust may claim , That pressed the breathing clay . Go where the ancient pathway guides , See where our sires laid down ...
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... earth was hid below The level of the glaring ground , Choked to its gates with snow , And when with summer's flowery waves The lake of verdure rolled , As if a Sultan's white - robed slaves Had scattered pearls and gold . Nay , the soft ...
... earth was hid below The level of the glaring ground , Choked to its gates with snow , And when with summer's flowery waves The lake of verdure rolled , As if a Sultan's white - robed slaves Had scattered pearls and gold . Nay , the soft ...
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... earth's meagre ribs , And hold communion with the things about me . Ah me ! how lovely is the golden braid That binds the skirt of night's descending robe ! The thin leaves , quivering on their silken threads , Do make a music like to ...
... earth's meagre ribs , And hold communion with the things about me . Ah me ! how lovely is the golden braid That binds the skirt of night's descending robe ! The thin leaves , quivering on their silken threads , Do make a music like to ...
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... earth , The breaking thread , the din of clashing shears , And all the needles that do wound the spirit , For such a ... earth's mantle , and yon quiet bird , 18 EARLIER POEMS.
... earth , The breaking thread , the din of clashing shears , And all the needles that do wound the spirit , For such a ... earth's mantle , and yon quiet bird , 18 EARLIER POEMS.
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That sprig earth's mantle , and yon quiet bird , That rides the stream , is to me as a brother . The vulgar know not all the hidden pockets , Where Nature stows away her loveliness . But this unnatural posture of the legs Cramps my ...
That sprig earth's mantle , and yon quiet bird , That rides the stream , is to me as a brother . The vulgar know not all the hidden pockets , Where Nature stows away her loveliness . But this unnatural posture of the legs Cramps my ...
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arms beneath BERKSHIRE blazoned blossoms blue blush boys breast breath bright burning CHARLES WENTWORTH UPHAM cheek cheerful circling band crown dark dead dear dream dust earth eyes faded fair falchion flame flow flowers fold gathered gleam glittering band glow golden grave gray green hand hear heart Heaven hour JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Katydid laugh leaves life's light lips listening living look lyre memory morning never nurslings o'er once peaceful percussion cap PHI BETA KAPPA plain rhyme rills ring Rip Van Winkle roll rose round shadows shine shining days shore sigh silent sing skies sleep slumbering smile snow song soul spring stars stethoscope strain stream sweet tears tell thee thine thou throbbing toil tongue tread trembling turn voice wandering warm waves whisper wild wine wings young youth
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Page 421 - Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson. Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'house on the hill. First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill, And the parson was sitting upon a rock, At half past nine by the meet'n'house clock, Just the hour of the earthquake shock!
Page 419 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Page 2 - The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 1 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.
Page 393 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Lair.
Page 419 - they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came: — Running as usual, much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive ; And then came fifty -and fifty-five. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer.
Page 247 - The wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them : — Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them I Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts...