North Country Poets: Poems and Biographies of Natives Or Residents of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Durham, Lancashire and Yorkshire ... : (modern Section)

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William Andrews
Simpkin, 1889
 

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Página 7 - But its garment of brightness illumed its dark path. In the hues of its grandeur, sublimely it stood, O'er the river, the village, the field, and the wood ; And river, field, village, and woodlands grew bright, As conscious they gave and afforded delight.
Página 25 - For if, beyond the shadow and the sleep, A place there be for souls without a stain, Where peace is perfect, and delight more deep Than seas or skies that change and shine again, There none of all unsullied souls that live May hold a surer station : none may lend More light to hope's or memory's lamp, nor give More joy than thine to those that called thee friend.
Página 115 - Yea! ye are precious then, but most to me Ere lamplight dawneth, when low croons the fire To whispering twilight in my little room, And eyes read not, but sitting silently I feel your great hearts throbbing deep in quire, And hear you breathing round me in the gloom.
Página 8 - To all who beheld it these verses belong; Its presence to all was the path of the Lord! Each full heart expanded, grew warm and adored. Like a visit — the converse of friends — or a day, That bow from my sight...
Página 49 - ... the soul of each, A mightier soul, which yet to each belongs : There is a sound made of all human speech, And numerous as the concourse of all songs : And in that soul lives each, in each that soul, Though all the ages are its lifetime vast ; Each soul that dies, in its most sacred whole Receiveth life that shall for ever last. And thus for ever with a wider span Humanity o'erarches time and death ; Man can elect the universal man, And live in life that ends not with his breath, And gather glory...
Página 7 - The evening was glorious, and light, through the trees, Played the sunshine, the raindrops, the birds, and the breeze ; The landscape outstretching in loveliness lay On the lap of the year, in the beauty of May.
Página 161 - O'er the dun heights of Waterloo : But other lyres shall greet the brave ; Sing now, that we have freed the slave ! " The ocean plain, where Nelson bled, Fair Commerce plies with peaceful oar ; Duteous o'er Britain's clime to shed The gather'd spoil of every shore ; To-day, across th...
Página 163 - The brow of beauty and the form of grace, The passion and the prowess of our race : The song of Homer in its loftiest hour, The...
Página 7 - Spring, as she pass'd down the vale, Left her robe on the trees, and her breath on the gale; And the smile of her promise gave joy to the hours, And flush in her footsteps sprang herbage and flowers.
Página 49 - There is a soul above the soul of each, A mightier soul, which yet to each belongs : There is a sound made of all human speech, And numerous as the concourse of all songs : And in that soul lives each, in each that soul, Tho...

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