The Courtship of Miles Standish and Minor PoemsMacmillan Company, 1910 |
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... darkness , the bondage of error , Through the sea , that shall lift the walls of its waters around me , Hiding me , cutting me off , from the cruel thoughts that pursue me . Back will I go o'er the ocean , this dreary land will abandon ...
... darkness , the bondage of error , Through the sea , that shall lift the walls of its waters around me , Hiding me , cutting me off , from the cruel thoughts that pursue me . Back will I go o'er the ocean , this dreary land will abandon ...
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... dark of the narrow chamber 385 With me my secret shall lie , like a buried jewel that glimmers Bright on the hand that is dust , in the chambers of silence and darkness , -- Yes , as the marriage ring of the great espousal hereafter ...
... dark of the narrow chamber 385 With me my secret shall lie , like a buried jewel that glimmers Bright on the hand that is dust , in the chambers of silence and darkness , -- Yes , as the marriage ring of the great espousal hereafter ...
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... darkness , Felt the cool air blow on his cheek , that was hot with the insult , 435 Lifted his eyes to the heavens , and , folding his hands as in childhood , Prayed in the silence of night to the Father who seeth in secret . Meanwhile ...
... darkness , Felt the cool air blow on his cheek , that was hot with the insult , 435 Lifted his eyes to the heavens , and , folding his hands as in childhood , Prayed in the silence of night to the Father who seeth in secret . Meanwhile ...
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... , Bearing the serpent's skin , and seeming himself like a serpent , 480 Winding his sinuous way in the dark to the depths of the forest . V THE SAILING OF THE MAYFLOWER JUST in the gray THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH 29.
... , Bearing the serpent's skin , and seeming himself like a serpent , 480 Winding his sinuous way in the dark to the depths of the forest . V THE SAILING OF THE MAYFLOWER JUST in the gray THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH 29.
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... darkness , unheard , unseen , and unfruitful , 660 Chafing their channels of stone , with endless and profit- less murmurs . " Thereupon answered John Alden , the young man , the lover of women : " Heaven forbid it , Priscilla ; and ...
... darkness , unheard , unseen , and unfruitful , 660 Chafing their channels of stone , with endless and profit- less murmurs . " Thereupon answered John Alden , the young man , the lover of women : " Heaven forbid it , Priscilla ; and ...
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angels beautiful behold BELFRY OF BRUGES breath bright Cæsar Captain of Plymouth clouds Courtship of Miles dark dead Death dreams dreary earth Edited England Epimetheus Euroclydon Excelsior eyes feel feet fire Flanders flowers forest Forever never GASPAR BECERRA gleam golden grave hand Hawthorne's hear heard heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow HUMPHREY GILBERT Indian John Alden Julius Cæsar land laugh leaves light living Longfellow look Lord loud maiden Mayflower Miles Standish mist Never forever night Norsemen o'er ocean phantoms Plymouth poem poet poet's prayer Priscilla Puritan rain river roar round sail Sandalphon seemed shadows ship silent singing sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul sound spake stars stood strong sweet thee Thereupon answered thou thoughts of youth tide town unto Victor Galbraith village voice W. D. Howells walls wave wild wind woods words youth are long ΙΟ
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Page 72 - When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight...
Page 155 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.
Page 127 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 93 - THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.
Page 189 - And the bugle wild and shrill. And the music of that old song Throbs in my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 197 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Page 97 - His hair is crisp, and black and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 143 - We know what Master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 188 - OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 153 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair...