Songs of Labor, and Other PoemsScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1851 - 132 páginas |
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50 cents ALFRED TENNYSON Autumn beauty beneath birds bless bloom breath breeze bright brow clouds cold dark dead dream earth Edition falls feel fire Fling flowers forest frost glisten glow God's golden GRACE GREENWOOD graceful grain green hand harvest hath hear heart heaven hill holy Hurrah Indian JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JOHN G lake LAKE SUPERIOR leaves Life's light lips Loch Maree Lord manhood's Maou melted merry mountains NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE night night is falling OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES peace pines POEMS prayer price 50 price 75 cents quiet rain rocks round rugged sands shadows shining shone showers slave smile snow SONGS OF LABOR soul spectral summer sunset sunshine sweet thee thine THOMAS DE QUINCEY thou thought toil tones tongue tread trod truth unto vales volume wall wave weary Where'er WHITTIER wild WILLIAM MOTHERWELL wind wood woodland
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Página 111 - The riches of the Commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. For well she keeps her ancient stock, The stubborn strength of Pilgrim Rock ; And still maintains, with milder laws, And clearer light, the Good Old Cause ! Nor heeds the sceptic's puny hands, While near her school the church-spire stands ; Nor fears the blinded bigot's rule, While near her church-spire stands the school.
Página 4 - DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF A NEW METHOD of PLANTING and MANAGING the ROOTS of GRAPE VINES. By CLEMENT HOARE, Author of " A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape Vine on Open Walls.
Página 36 - Mingled the glow of autumn with the sunshine of sweet looks. From spire and barn looked westerly the patient weathercocks ; But even the birches on the hill stood motionless as rocks. No sound was in the woodlands, save the squirrel's dropping shell, And the yellow leaves among the boughs, low rustling as they fell.
Página 93 - Revile him not — the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall! Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night.
Página 6 - So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard bloom and tasselled maize That skirt and gladden duty's ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common things below...
Página 37 - And like a merry guest's farewell, the day in brightness passed. And lo ! as through the western pines, on meadow, stream, and pond, Flamed the red radiance of a sky, set all afire beyond, Slowly o'er the eastern sea-bluffs a milder glory shone, And the sunset and the moonrise were mingled into one!
Página 13 - THE SHIP-BUILDERS. THE sky is ruddy in the East, The earth is gray below, And, spectral in the river-mist, The ship's white timbers show. Then let the sounds of measured stroke And grating saw begin ; The...
Página 40 - We dropped the seed o'er hill and plain Beneath the sun of May, And frightened from our sprouting grain The robber crows away. All through the long, bright days of June Its leaves grew green and fair, And waved in hot midsummer's noon Its soft and yellow hair. And now, with autumn's moonlit eves, Its harvest- time has come, We pluck away the frosted leaves, And bear the treasure home.
Página 6 - Haply from them the toiler, bent Above his forge or plough, may gain A manlier spirit of content, And feel that life is wisest spent Where the strong working hand makes strong the working brain.
Página 34 - THE HUSKERS. IT was late in mild October, and the long autumnal rain Had left the summer harvest-fields all green with grass again ; The first sharp frosts had fallen, leaving all the woodlands gay With the hues of summer's rainbow, or the meadow- flowers of May.