Songs in Many KeysTicknor and Fields, 1862 - 308 pages |
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Page 51
... an ear of corn ; Dark in the brow and bilious in the cheek , Whose yellowish linen flowers but once a week , Conspicuous , annual , in their threadbare suits , And the laced high - lows which they call their THE MORAL BULLY . 51.
... an ear of corn ; Dark in the brow and bilious in the cheek , Whose yellowish linen flowers but once a week , Conspicuous , annual , in their threadbare suits , And the laced high - lows which they call their THE MORAL BULLY . 51.
Page 63
... once ; a man lived there . - But where the charred and crumbling records fail , Some breathing lips may piece the half - told tale ; No man may live with neighbors such as these , Though girt with walls of rock and angry seas , And ...
... once ; a man lived there . - But where the charred and crumbling records fail , Some breathing lips may piece the half - told tale ; No man may live with neighbors such as these , Though girt with walls of rock and angry seas , And ...
Page 71
... once on his talking legs , Stirs up his knowledge to its thickest dregs . Tremendous draught for dining men to quaff ! Nothing will choke him but a purpling laugh . a mighty roar , — ' t is done ; A word , - a shout , - Extinguished ...
... once on his talking legs , Stirs up his knowledge to its thickest dregs . Tremendous draught for dining men to quaff ! Nothing will choke him but a purpling laugh . a mighty roar , — ' t is done ; A word , - a shout , - Extinguished ...
Page 78
... dread enchantment , all at once confessed ! The case was plain ; the treatment was begun ; And Love soon cured the mischief he had done . Young Love , too oft thy treacherous bandage slips Down 78 PICTURES FROM OCCASIONAL POEMS .
... dread enchantment , all at once confessed ! The case was plain ; the treatment was begun ; And Love soon cured the mischief he had done . Young Love , too oft thy treacherous bandage slips Down 78 PICTURES FROM OCCASIONAL POEMS .
Page 83
... once more The Temple's porches , searched in vain before ; They found him seated with the ancient men , The grim old rufflers of the tongue and pen , Their bald heads glistening as they clustered near , Their gray beards slanting as ...
... once more The Temple's porches , searched in vain before ; They found him seated with the ancient men , The grim old rufflers of the tongue and pen , Their bald heads glistening as they clustered near , Their gray beards slanting as ...
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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...