Poems, Essays, and Leaves from a Note BookDoubleday, Page, 1904 - 573 pages |
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... walk and seek new pasture . Thus baptism seemed to him a merry game Not tried before , all sacraments a mode Of doing homage for one's property , And all religions a queer human whim Or else a vice , according to degrees : As , ' tis a ...
... walk and seek new pasture . Thus baptism seemed to him a merry game Not tried before , all sacraments a mode Of doing homage for one's property , And all religions a queer human whim Or else a vice , according to degrees : As , ' tis a ...
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... walks up and down And snuffs the orange flowers and shoots a pea To hit a streak of light let through the awning . Has a queer face : eyes large as plums , a nose Small , round , uneven , like a bit of wax Melted and cooled by chance ...
... walks up and down And snuffs the orange flowers and shoots a pea To hit a streak of light let through the awning . Has a queer face : eyes large as plums , a nose Small , round , uneven , like a bit of wax Melted and cooled by chance ...
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George Eliot. The Gypsies chained in couples , all save one , Walk in dark file with grand bare legs and arms And savage melancholy in their eyes That star - like gleam from out black clouds of hair ; Now they are full in sight , and now ...
George Eliot. The Gypsies chained in couples , all save one , Walk in dark file with grand bare legs and arms And savage melancholy in their eyes That star - like gleam from out black clouds of hair ; Now they are full in sight , and now ...
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... walk as ghosts Within the shuddering soul and shriek remorse ; Or , as a lover . . . . In the screening time Of purple blossoms , when the petals crowd And softly crush like cherub cheeks in heaven , Who thinks of greenly withered fruit ...
... walk as ghosts Within the shuddering soul and shriek remorse ; Or , as a lover . . . . In the screening time Of purple blossoms , when the petals crowd And softly crush like cherub cheeks in heaven , Who thinks of greenly withered fruit ...
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... walk For ever with a tortured double self , A self that will be hungry while you feast , Will blush with shame while you are glorified , Will feel the ache and chill of desolation , Even in the very bosom of your love . Mate yourself ...
... walk For ever with a tortured double self , A self that will be hungry while you feast , Will blush with shame while you are glorified , Will feel the ache and chill of desolation , Even in the very bosom of your love . Mate yourself ...
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Page 362 - O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE. O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search, To vaster issues.
Page 73 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 13 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 97 - Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment?
Page 106 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 45 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 72 - Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
Page 102 - Christian gives to the poor, not only because he has sensibilities like other men, but because inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.
Page 45 - Is merely as the working of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon His sultry march, When sin hath moved Him, and His wrath is hot, Shall visit earth in mercy ; shall descend Propitious in His chariot paved with love : And what His storms have blasted and defaced For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair.
Page 42 - The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness.