Songs in Many KeysTicknor and Fields, 1862 - 308 pages |
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... waits the chosen guest who knows his power ? He moves with ease , itself an angel charm , —— Lifts with light touch my lady's jewelled arm , Slides to his seat , half leading and half led , Smiling but quiet till the grace is said ...
... waits the chosen guest who knows his power ? He moves with ease , itself an angel charm , —— Lifts with light touch my lady's jewelled arm , Slides to his seat , half leading and half led , Smiling but quiet till the grace is said ...
Page 76
... wait awhile beside the sufferer's bed . So by his side he sat , serene and calm , His very accents soft as healing balm ; Not curious seemed , but every movement spied , His sharp eyes searching where they seemed to glide ; Asked a few ...
... wait awhile beside the sufferer's bed . So by his side he sat , serene and calm , His very accents soft as healing balm ; Not curious seemed , but every movement spied , His sharp eyes searching where they seemed to glide ; Asked a few ...
Page 77
... experience must decide . Were there no damsels willing to attend And do such service for a suffering friend ? The message passed among the waiting crowd , First in a whisper , then proclaimed aloud . Some THE MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS . 77.
... experience must decide . Were there no damsels willing to attend And do such service for a suffering friend ? The message passed among the waiting crowd , First in a whisper , then proclaimed aloud . Some THE MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS . 77.
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... Wait , — wait , undoubting , for the winds have caught - From our bold speech the heritage of thought ; No marble form that sculptured truth can wear Vies with the image shaped in viewless air ; And thought unfettered grows through ...
... Wait , — wait , undoubting , for the winds have caught - From our bold speech the heritage of thought ; No marble form that sculptured truth can wear Vies with the image shaped in viewless air ; And thought unfettered grows through ...
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... Wait while the fiery seeds of freedom fly , The prairie blazes when the grass is dry ! What arms might ravish , leave to peaceful arts , Wisdom and love shall win the roughest hearts ; So shall the angel who has closed for man The ...
... Wait while the fiery seeds of freedom fly , The prairie blazes when the grass is dry ! What arms might ravish , leave to peaceful arts , Wisdom and love shall win the roughest hearts ; So shall the angel who has closed for man The ...
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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...