PoemsHoughton, Mifflin, 1893 - 250 pagine |
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amid beauty behold bird birth blessed blest breath bright bring CAMPANILE DI PISA CANDLEMAS clouds DANIEL WEBSTER DANTE dark dead dear death divine dream dwell earth England eyes fair fell flowers FRANCESCA DA RIMINI friends gentle gleam glory grave gray GROOMSMAN GUY FAWKES DAY hand hath heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW HUDSON RIVER isle JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL kiss lady life's light lilies look MARY BOOTH memories midnight morn muse never night numbers o'er passed peace perchance pilgrim poet prayed prayer PROEM rain repose rest rhyme river Rome rose round sacred saint SCULPTOR'S FUNERAL SEBASTOPOL seemed serene shadow shore silent sing sleep smile song soon SORRENTO sorrow soul spirit strain sunshine sweet tears thee thine things thou thought throng tread vale verse VIVA LA MUSICA wandering waves WILLEY HOUSE woods word
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Pagina 211 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Pagina 250 - Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm, that every window was wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Pagina 165 - Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva Col suo soverchio , e solo a quello arriva La man che obbedisce all
Pagina 127 - Lasciasser d' operare ogni lor arte ; Ma con piena letizia 1" ore prime, Cantando, ricevean intra le foglie, Che tenevan bordone alle sue rime, Tal, qual di ramo in ramo si raccoglie Per la pineta, in sul lito di Chiassi, Quand' Eolo Scirocco fuor discioglie.
Pagina 1 - Perpetual care and scorn, abide ; Small friendship for the lordly throng ; Distrust of all the world beside. Faithful if this wan image be, No dream his life was, — but a fight ; Could any Beatrice see A lover in that anchorite ? To that cold Ghibelline's gloomy sight Who could have guessed the visions came Of Beauty, veiled with heavenly light, In circles of eternal flame ? CW A BUST OF DANTE...
Pagina 5 - Take him to the fragrant fields, by the silver birches, Where the whip-poor-will shall mourn, where the oriole perches: Make his mound with sunshine on it. Where the bee will dine upon it...
Pagina 249 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man ; — be virtuous, — be religious, — be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Pagina 119 - ... o'er, Subdued and stagnant in the fen of Aries; Or when he sees the slimy Tiber fling His sullen tribute at the feet of Rome, Oft to his thought must partial memory bring More noble waves, without renown, at home; Now let him climb the Catskill, to behold The lordly Hudson, marching to the main, And say what bard, in any land of old, Had such a river to inspire his strain.
Pagina 204 - Three there were that stood beside her; One was dark, and one was fair, But nor fair nor dark the other, Save her Arab eyes and hair; Neither dark nor fair I call her, Yet she was the fairest there. While her groomsman — shall I own it?
Pagina 151 - Christ! the lightning showed The mountain moving from his seat! Out, out into the slippery road! Into the wet with naked feet! No time for dress, — for life ! for life ! No time for any word but this : The father grasped his boys; his wife Snatched her young babe, — but not to kiss. And Mary with the younger girl, Barefoot and shivering in their smocks, Sped forth amid that angry whirl Of rushing waves and whelming rocks. For down the mountain's crumbling side, Full half the mountain from on...