Songs in Many KeysTicknor and Fields, 1862 - 308 pages |
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... , To maids with downcast eyes . Ah ! maidens err and matrons warn Beneath the coldest sky ; Love lurks amid the tasselled corn As in the bearded rye ! But who would dream our sober sires Had learned the 1 AGNES PAGE THE KNIGHT.
... , To maids with downcast eyes . Ah ! maidens err and matrons warn Beneath the coldest sky ; Love lurks amid the tasselled corn As in the bearded rye ! But who would dream our sober sires Had learned the 1 AGNES PAGE THE KNIGHT.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes. But who would dream our sober sires Had learned the old world's ways , And warmed their hearths with lawless fires In Shirley's homespun days ? ' Tis like some poet's pictured trance His idle rhymes recite , — This ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes. But who would dream our sober sires Had learned the old world's ways , And warmed their hearths with lawless fires In Shirley's homespun days ? ' Tis like some poet's pictured trance His idle rhymes recite , — This ...
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... learned their Saxon name , And touched their English gold , Nor tale of doubt nor hint of blame From over sea is told . Three hours the first November dawn Has climbed with feeble ray Through mists like heavy curtains drawn Before the ...
... learned their Saxon name , And touched their English gold , Nor tale of doubt nor hint of blame From over sea is told . Three hours the first November dawn Has climbed with feeble ray Through mists like heavy curtains drawn Before the ...
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... learned crew That loved to talk of all they could not do . those names of later days Why count the rest , · - That many love , and all agree to praise , - Or point the titles , where a glance may read The dangerous lines of party or of ...
... learned crew That loved to talk of all they could not do . those names of later days Why count the rest , · - That many love , and all agree to praise , - Or point the titles , where a glance may read The dangerous lines of party or of ...
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... learned the art of arts , — to dine ! Nature , indulgent to our daily need , Kind - hearted mother ! taught us all to feed ; But the chief art , —how rarely Nature flings This choicest gift among her social kings ! Say , man of truth ...
... learned the art of arts , — to dine ! Nature , indulgent to our daily need , Kind - hearted mother ! taught us all to feed ; But the chief art , —how rarely Nature flings This choicest gift among her social kings ! Say , man of truth ...
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Agnes angel arms banner Behold beneath BERKSHIRE Blazoned blue breast breath bright burning cheek clasped crimson crown dark dead dear dream earth eyes faded fair falchion FEBRUARY 22 flame fleur-de-lis flow Flower of Liberty folds Gambrel gleam glistening glory glow golden grave gray green hand hear heart Heaven heavenly hills holy hour Houri land laugh leaves life's light lips living look Lord maidens maize moidore morning mother Nahant nurslings o'er peaceful pennons plain ploughshare rills rings roll rose round SAUTY shade shadows shed shine shore shore and sea sigh sing smile song soul spread spring stars story stream sweet Freedom sweet little tale tears tell tessellated thee thine thou throbbing throne toil told Toll the bell TURELL turn voice warm waves whisper wild wings word world's a stage young youth
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Page 236 - 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 170 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. This is a moral that runs at large; (Take it.
Page 167 - Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits, — Have you ever heard of that, I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive, — Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
Page 168 - In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, Above or below, or within or without, And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, That a chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...
Page 190 - My listening angel heard the prayer. And, calmly smiling, said, "If I but touch thy silvered hair, Thy hasty wish hath sped. "But is there nothing in thy track To bid thee fondly stay. While the swift seasons hurry back To find the wished-for day?
Page 237 - Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: — Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
Page 248 - 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...
Page 275 - O Love Divine, that stooped to share Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear, On Thee we cast each earthborn care, We smile at pain while Thou art near 1 Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near...
Page 277 - ... of our life, Thy quickening ray Sheds on our path the glow of day ; Star of our hope, Thy softened light Cheers the long watches of the night.
Page 208 - HAS there any old fellow got mixed with the boys ? If there has, take him out, without making a noise. Hang the Almanac's cheat and the Catalogue's spite! Old Time is a liar! We're twenty to-night! We're twenty! We're twenty! Who says we are more ? He's tipsy, —young jackanapes ! —show him the door!