Poetic Pearls: With Notes and IllustrationsRichard S. Rhodes Rhodes & McClure, 1885 - 407 páginas |
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... to be , Or may be if they will , and we prepare Their souls and ours to meet in happy air , -- A child , a friend , a wife whose soft heart sings In unison with ours , breeding its future wings . THE ROSE . E. WALLER . Go , lovely rose 28.
... to be , Or may be if they will , and we prepare Their souls and ours to meet in happy air , -- A child , a friend , a wife whose soft heart sings In unison with ours , breeding its future wings . THE ROSE . E. WALLER . Go , lovely rose 28.
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... happy heart , as to and fro She wandered ' mid the swaying grasses low ; When suddenly a brilliant butterfly Flashed , like a jewel in the sunshine , by And , darting swiftly now that way , now this , Alighted on her lips and stole a ...
... happy heart , as to and fro She wandered ' mid the swaying grasses low ; When suddenly a brilliant butterfly Flashed , like a jewel in the sunshine , by And , darting swiftly now that way , now this , Alighted on her lips and stole a ...
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... happy as days were long , In the old Arcadian times : When life seemed only a dance and song In the sweetest of all sweet climes . Our world grows bigger , and stage by stage , As the pitiless years have rolled , We've quite forgotten ...
... happy as days were long , In the old Arcadian times : When life seemed only a dance and song In the sweetest of all sweet climes . Our world grows bigger , and stage by stage , As the pitiless years have rolled , We've quite forgotten ...
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... I shall be gone , and may no more Give ear to thee , sweet Sabbath bell ! Dear church and bell , so loved of yore , And childhood's happy home , farewell ! -Eatonton , Ga . , May 18 , 1856 . 81 SAD . A SHORT TALE IN SHORT WORDS . W.
... I shall be gone , and may no more Give ear to thee , sweet Sabbath bell ! Dear church and bell , so loved of yore , And childhood's happy home , farewell ! -Eatonton , Ga . , May 18 , 1856 . 81 SAD . A SHORT TALE IN SHORT WORDS . W.
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... - nots That grow for happy lovers . I slip , I slide , I gloom , I glance , Among my skimming swallows ; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows . THE BROOK . I murmur under moon and stars In 94 GEMS OF POETRY .
... - nots That grow for happy lovers . I slip , I slide , I gloom , I glance , Among my skimming swallows ; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows . THE BROOK . I murmur under moon and stars In 94 GEMS OF POETRY .
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Términos y frases comunes
amber gates angels beauty Bingen blessed blue bosom breast breath bride bright brow Cæsar child clouds dark dead dear death deep doth dream dying earth Eatonton ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Ella Wheeler Wilcox eyes fair fall flowers forever FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE gates gentle gleam glory gold golden grave gray hand happy hath hear heart heaven hills Homeless hearts hour J. H. NEWMAN King kiss life's light lilies lips live lonely look LORD BYRON MINNEHAHA FALLS morning mother N. P. WILLIS never night o'er pain peace praise prayer rest Restless hearts Rhine river rose Santa Claus scorn shine sigh silent sing skies sleep smile soft solemn song sorrow soul stars sweet tears thee thine things thou thought toil tone trembling Twas voice waves weary weep wild wind words youth
Pasajes populares
Página 186 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Página 143 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 255 - Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Página 257 - All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Página 57 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 25 - Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Página 347 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 201 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Página 269 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Página 255 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...