Songs in Many KeysTicknor and Fields, 1862 - 308 pages |
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... leaves . Such toys as these Were not unsought for , as , in languid dreams , We lay beside our lotus - feeding streams , And nursed our fancies in forgetful ease . It matters little if they pall or please , Dropping untimely , while the ...
... leaves . Such toys as these Were not unsought for , as , in languid dreams , We lay beside our lotus - feeding streams , And nursed our fancies in forgetful ease . It matters little if they pall or please , Dropping untimely , while the ...
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... leaves have spread The flank of Cintra's hill . The town has 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 ...
... leaves have spread The flank of Cintra's hill . The town has 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 ...
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... leaves , The reaper's band shall gird its yellow sheaves ; For thee alike the circling seasons flow Till the first blossoms heave the latest snow . In the stiff clod below the whirling drifts , In the loose soil the springing herbage ...
... leaves , The reaper's band shall gird its yellow sheaves ; For thee alike the circling seasons flow Till the first blossoms heave the latest snow . In the stiff clod below the whirling drifts , In the loose soil the springing herbage ...
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... leaves , Bright with the hues from wider pictures won , White , azure , golden , — drift , or sky , or sun ; - The snowdrop , bearing on her patient breast The frozen trophy torn from Winter's crest ; The violet , gazing on the arch of ...
... leaves , Bright with the hues from wider pictures won , White , azure , golden , — drift , or sky , or sun ; - The snowdrop , bearing on her patient breast The frozen trophy torn from Winter's crest ; The violet , gazing on the arch of ...
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... leaves ; The house - fly , stealing from his narrow grave , Drugged with the opiate that November gave , Beats with faint wing against the sunny pane , Or crawls , tenacious , o'er its lucid plain ; From shaded chinks of lichen ...
... leaves ; The house - fly , stealing from his narrow grave , Drugged with the opiate that November gave , Beats with faint wing against the sunny pane , Or crawls , tenacious , o'er its lucid plain ; From shaded chinks of lichen ...
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angel arms banner beneath blaze blue breast breath bright burning canker-worms chair cheek clasped Cotton Mather crimson crown dark Deacon dead dear dream earth eyes faded fair falchion flame flow Flower of Liberty Gambrel gleam glistening glittering glory glow golden gray green hand Hark hear heart Heaven hill hour kentry land laugh leaves life's light lips living Logic is logic look Lord maidens Meerschaums moidore morning nurslings o'er old arm-chair OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES parson peaceful plain rills rings roll Romulus and Remus rose round SAUTY scalded milk shade shadows shed shine shore shore and sea sigh sing smile song soul spread spring story stream sweet little tale tears tell thee there's thine thou throbbing throne toil Toll the bell TURELL turn voice waves whisper wild wine wings word world's a stage young youth
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Page 198 - 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 199 - 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...
Page 170 - Gray temples at twenty?" — Yes! white if we please; Where the snow-flakes fall thickest there's nothing can freeze! Was it snowing I spoke of? Excuse the mistake!
Page 171 - That could harness a team with a logical chain; When he spoke for our manhood in syllabled fire, We called him "The Justice,
Page 172 - And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith; Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith; But he shouted a song for the brave and the free — Just read on his medal, "My country,
Page 239 - Sun 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 170 - Hahnsum kerridge" they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came; Running as usual; much, the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty, and fifty-five. 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. You're welcome. No extra charge.) First of November, the Earthquake-day.
Page 234 - THE LIVING TEMPLE. Not in the world of light alone, Where God has built his blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, With belted seas that come and go, And endless isles of sunlit green, Is all thy Maker's glory seen: Look in upon thy wondrous frame, — Eternal wisdom still the same...
Page 234 - The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves Flows murmuring through its hidden caves, ] ° Whose streams of brightening purple rush. Fired with a new and livelier blush. While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart.
Page 138 - We praise him, not for gifts divine, — His Muse was born of woman, — His manhood breathes in every line, — Was ever heart more human ? We love him, praise him, just for this : In every form and feature, Through wealth and want, through woe and bliss, He saw his fellow-creature...