The Two Brothers: And Other PoemsR. Carter and brothers, 1871 - 324 pages |
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... lonely nestless bird upon its first wild entrance there . Day by day the spirit finding eagle strength within its wings , Proudly tracking truth and beauty there ' mid everlasting things ; Never pausing , resting never on its flight ...
... lonely nestless bird upon its first wild entrance there . Day by day the spirit finding eagle strength within its wings , Proudly tracking truth and beauty there ' mid everlasting things ; Never pausing , resting never on its flight ...
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... lonely chime . At her beauty I was troubled , so unearthly bright , and deep , And I felt a cold misgiving stealing through my feverish sleep . Brother , list ! my dreams were startled ; in my couch I sate upright ; And I wildly gazed ...
... lonely chime . At her beauty I was troubled , so unearthly bright , and deep , And I felt a cold misgiving stealing through my feverish sleep . Brother , list ! my dreams were startled ; in my couch I sate upright ; And I wildly gazed ...
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... lonely vale , The words of promise beauteously brake forth And kindled into radiance . For a while Wonder and rapture reft my soul of thought , And left me tranced as a child who first Stands on the shore of blue phosphoric waves At ...
... lonely vale , The words of promise beauteously brake forth And kindled into radiance . For a while Wonder and rapture reft my soul of thought , And left me tranced as a child who first Stands on the shore of blue phosphoric waves At ...
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... lonely field Again his glory and his grace reveal'd . Straightway she ran and call'd me ; love divine Shone calmly in his human eye benign , And when I ask'd him of our promised child How we should train him for the Lord , he smiled And ...
... lonely field Again his glory and his grace reveal'd . Straightway she ran and call'd me ; love divine Shone calmly in his human eye benign , And when I ask'd him of our promised child How we should train him for the Lord , he smiled And ...
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... lonely hearth She told the awful secret of his birth , And with her folded hands besought that he Might never shame his glorious destiny , But without lingering thought of home or her Be unto death our land's deliverer . Years glided on ...
... lonely hearth She told the awful secret of his birth , And with her folded hands besought that he Might never shame his glorious destiny , But without lingering thought of home or her Be unto death our land's deliverer . Years glided on ...
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Page 274 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 314 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
Page 249 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 313 - His ego nee metas rerum nee tempora pono ; imperium sine fine dedi.
Page 259 - And now why tarriest thou ? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Page 276 - Oh, let the words -*- Linger on the trembling chords ; Let the " little while " between In their golden light be seen ; Let us think how heaven and home Lie beyond that
Page 247 - Our years are like the shadows On sunny hills that lie, Or grasses in the meadows That blossom but to die ; A sleep, a dream, a story By strangers quickly told, An unremaining glory Of things that soon are old.
Page 67 - And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord...
Page 91 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, " I am, and there is none beside me:" how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Page 106 - The LORD is slow to anger. and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked : the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.