Selections in VerseJ.B. Lippincott and Company, 1881 - 187 pagine |
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ADA CAMBRIDGE ADELAIDE angels autumn beautiful bells bird blessed bloom blossoms blue breast breath bright brow CELIA THAXTER cheat-ed-ye CHRISTINA G chrysanthemum clouds creeping everywhere crimson daisy dark darling dawn dead dear death deep dreams earth EDWIN ARNOLD ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes faint fair feet flowers friends glad glow God's God's Acre golden golden-rod hear heart heaven hill JEAN INGELOW kiss kittens life's light lips little dandelion look morning mother nest never nevermore night o'er pray prayer rain rest river river Lee rose rosy shadows Shandon shine sigh silent sing sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul spring stars summer sung sunshine SUSAN COOLIDGE sweet sweetest tears tell tender thee thine things thou thrush tree UNKNOWN violet voice warm weep whisper wild wind wind-flower Winsome Baby Bunn wonder
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Pagina 36 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Pagina 37 - God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God...
Pagina 74 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Pagina 45 - The buds of spring, those beautiful harbingers Of sunny skies and cloudless times, enjoy Life's newness, and earth's garniture spread out ; And when the silver habit of the clouds Comes down upon the autumn sun, and with A sober gladness the old year takes up His bright inheritance of golden fruits, A pomp and pageant fill the splendid scene. There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellow richness on the clustered trees, And.
Pagina 37 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Pagina 73 - A SENSITIVE PLANT in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew. And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, And closed them beneath the kisses of night.
Pagina 35 - In his steep course ? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC ! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful Form ! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again...
Pagina 141 - And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee, With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.
Pagina 138 - ... fret At little children clinging to their gown, Or that the foot-prints, when the days are wet, Are ever black enough to make them frown. If I could find a little muddy boot, Or cap, or jacket, on my chamber floor; If I could kiss a rosy, restless foot, And hear it patter in my house once...
Pagina 185 - MY STAR ALL that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now a dart of red, Now a dart of blue; Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue ! Then it stops like a bird ; like a flower, hangs furled : 10 They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.