Clio, Volumen3

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S. Babcock & Company, 1827
 

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Página 192 - THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. In eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares : Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears. The rose is the sign of joy and love, Young blushing love in its earliest dawn; Innocence shines in the lily's bell, Pure as
Página 170 - Now the torrent brook is stealing Faintly down the- furrowed glade— Not as when in winter pealing, Such a din it made, That the sound of cataracts falling Gave no echo so appalling, As its hoarse and heavy brawling In the pine's black shade. Darkly blue the mist is hovering Round the clifted rock's bare
Página 5 - O ! fly not with the rapid wing of time, But with your ancient votary kindly stay; And while the loftier dreams, that rose sublime In years of higher hope, have flown away: O ! with the colours of a softer clime, Give your last touches to the dying day.
Página 91 - forest tops, Till, like an ocean waking into storm, It heaved and weltered. Gloriously the light Crested its billows, and those craggy islands Shone on it like to palaces of spar Built on a sea of pearl. Far overhead, The sky, without a vapour or a stain,
Página 86 - sabbath of a heart too full For words or tears—here let us strew the sod With the first flowers of spring, and make to them An offering of the plenty Nature gives, And they have rendered ours—perpetually.
Página 92 - half-mantled in a snowy veil, A frigate with full canvas, bearing on To conquest and to glory. But even these Had round them something of the lofty air In which they moved ; not like to things of earth, But heightened, and made glorious, as became Such pomp and
Página 82 - is brightest, Even in the height of heaven, and there repose, Solemnly calm, without a visible motion, Hour after hour, looking upon the earth With a serenest smile :—or ye who rather Heaped in those sulphury masses, heavily Jutting above their bases, like the smoke
Página 99 - infinite reflections, on I went Mounting with hasty foot, and thence emerging I scaled that rocky steep, and there awaited Silent the full appearing of the sun. Below there lay a far extended sea Rolling in feathery waves. The wind blew o'er it, And tossed it round the high ascending rocks, And swept it through the half hidden forest
Página 7 - him fling Proudly his fetters by, and hurry on, Keen as the famished eagle da.rts her wing ; The goal is still before him, and the prize Still woos his eager eyes. He rushes forth to
Página 89 - melodies To the bright, listening flowers, and waters falling Most musical from marble fountains wreathed With clustering ivy, like a poet's brow— Why comes he not to add his higher strains, And be the interpreter of lower things, In intellectual worship, at the throne Of the beneficent power, that gave to them.

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