Longfellow Birthday BookDodge Publishing Company, 1906 |
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... Longfellow. THE world of the affections is thy world , Not that of man's ambition . TAKE each fair mask for what it gives itself , Nor strive to look beneath it . STRANGE hopes and fears do beckon to each other ,. 11 12 JANUARY.
... Longfellow. THE world of the affections is thy world , Not that of man's ambition . TAKE each fair mask for what it gives itself , Nor strive to look beneath it . STRANGE hopes and fears do beckon to each other ,. 11 12 JANUARY.
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... for time and tide . TAKE them , O great Eter- nity ! Our little life is but a gust That bends the branches of thy tree , And trails its blossoms in the dust . OUR little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions. 2 FEBRUARY.
... for time and tide . TAKE them , O great Eter- nity ! Our little life is but a gust That bends the branches of thy tree , And trails its blossoms in the dust . OUR little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions. 2 FEBRUARY.
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... O FLAMES that glowed ! O hearts that yearned ! They were indeed too much akin- The driftwood fire without that burned , The thoughts that burned and glowed within . THOU sculptor , painter , poet ! Take this lesson. 24 25 APRIL.
... O FLAMES that glowed ! O hearts that yearned ! They were indeed too much akin- The driftwood fire without that burned , The thoughts that burned and glowed within . THOU sculptor , painter , poet ! Take this lesson. 24 25 APRIL.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. THOU sculptor , painter , poet ! Take this lesson to thy heart : That is best which lieth nearest ; Shape from that thy work of art . BY the fireside there are old men seated , Seeing ruined cities in the ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. THOU sculptor , painter , poet ! Take this lesson to thy heart : That is best which lieth nearest ; Shape from that thy work of art . BY the fireside there are old men seated , Seeing ruined cities in the ...
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... LEAVE behind us .... Footprints , that perhaps another , Sailing o'er life's solemn main , A forlorn and shipwrecked brother , Seeing , shall take heart again . LOVE is the root of creation -God's essence - worlds. 27 28 JULY 28.
... LEAVE behind us .... Footprints , that perhaps another , Sailing o'er life's solemn main , A forlorn and shipwrecked brother , Seeing , shall take heart again . LOVE is the root of creation -God's essence - worlds. 27 28 JULY 28.
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