The Poems of Oliver Wendell HolmesFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 410 pages |
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... each image in itself is bright , Not robed in drapery of reflected light , - Is like the rustic , who , amidst his toil , Has found some crystal in his meagre soil , - And , lost in rapture , thinks for him alone 6 POETRY :
... each image in itself is bright , Not robed in drapery of reflected light , - Is like the rustic , who , amidst his toil , Has found some crystal in his meagre soil , - And , lost in rapture , thinks for him alone 6 POETRY :
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... toil , or surfeited with state , Mark how thy fancies , with the vernal rose , Awake , all sweetness , from their long repose ; Then turn to ponder o'er the classic page , Traced with the idyls of a greener age , And learn the instinct ...
... toil , or surfeited with state , Mark how thy fancies , with the vernal rose , Awake , all sweetness , from their long repose ; Then turn to ponder o'er the classic page , Traced with the idyls of a greener age , And learn the instinct ...
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... toil , Glows in the welcome of his parent soil ; And ask no garlands sought beyond the tide , But take the leaflets gathered at your side . OUR ancient church ! its lowly tower , Beneath the loftier spire , Is shadowed when the sunset ...
... toil , Glows in the welcome of his parent soil ; And ask no garlands sought beyond the tide , But take the leaflets gathered at your side . OUR ancient church ! its lowly tower , Beneath the loftier spire , Is shadowed when the sunset ...
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... toil - knit sinews of the rustic's arm , Or swell the pulses in the poet's veins , And bid the nations tremble at his strains . The city slept beneath the moonbeam's glance , Her white walls gleaming through the vines of France , And ...
... toil - knit sinews of the rustic's arm , Or swell the pulses in the poet's veins , And bid the nations tremble at his strains . The city slept beneath the moonbeam's glance , Her white walls gleaming through the vines of France , And ...
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... toil Strewed like the leaves that vanish in the soil ; One hill o'erflows , and cities sink below , Their marbles splintering in the lava's glow ; But one sweet tone , scarce whispered to the air , From shore to shore the blasts of ages ...
... toil Strewed like the leaves that vanish in the soil ; One hill o'erflows , and cities sink below , Their marbles splintering in the lava's glow ; But one sweet tone , scarce whispered to the air , From shore to shore the blasts of ages ...
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