Kettell, Samuel: Specimens of American Poetry...1829 |
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... 267 A Poet's Reverie , 267 JAMES G. BROOKS , 273 Greece , The Dirge , FREDERICK S. HILL , Musings , A Fragment , Persian Songs , OLIVER C. WYMAN , 273 • 275 273 277 279 281 282 PAGE . The Devotee , 282 To the Clouds , CONTENTS . vii.
... 267 A Poet's Reverie , 267 JAMES G. BROOKS , 273 Greece , The Dirge , FREDERICK S. HILL , Musings , A Fragment , Persian Songs , OLIVER C. WYMAN , 273 • 275 273 277 279 281 282 PAGE . The Devotee , 282 To the Clouds , CONTENTS . vii.
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... hill , Waking the gloom of night . All breathes of terror ! Men in dumb amaze Gaze on each other ' neath the horrid blaze . It scares the sea - birds from their nests . They dart and wheel with deaf'ning screams ; Now dark , and now ...
... hill , Waking the gloom of night . All breathes of terror ! Men in dumb amaze Gaze on each other ' neath the horrid blaze . It scares the sea - birds from their nests . They dart and wheel with deaf'ning screams ; Now dark , and now ...
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... hills , And spires , and walls , and roofs , a tint so pale , Death seem'd on all the landscape - but so still , Who would have thought that anything but peace And beauty had a dwelling there ! The world Had gone , and life was not ...
... hills , And spires , and walls , and roofs , a tint so pale , Death seem'd on all the landscape - but so still , Who would have thought that anything but peace And beauty had a dwelling there ! The world Had gone , and life was not ...
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... snow ; Her voice and his rebeck Alternately flow ; Re - echoed they swell From the rock on the hill ; They sing their farewell , And the music is still . THE GRAVES OF THE PATRIOTS . HERE rest the great JAMES G. PERCIVAL . 45.
... snow ; Her voice and his rebeck Alternately flow ; Re - echoed they swell From the rock on the hill ; They sing their farewell , And the music is still . THE GRAVES OF THE PATRIOTS . HERE rest the great JAMES G. PERCIVAL . 45.
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... hills to the pebbly shore ; And now , on the breast of the lonely lake , The waves in silvery glances break , Like a short and quickly rolling sca , When the gale first feels its liberty , And the flakes of foam , like coursers , run ...
... hills to the pebbly shore ; And now , on the breast of the lonely lake , The waves in silvery glances break , Like a short and quickly rolling sca , When the gale first feels its liberty , And the flakes of foam , like coursers , run ...
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Page 143 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 142 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours 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.
Page 144 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost, All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 82 - When death is nigh, my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill'd this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry, And weariness a name.
Page 256 - Alas! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair ! That death should settle in thy glorious eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb ! My proud boy, Absalom...
Page 143 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 171 - Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song, and dance, and wine; And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
Page 355 - NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room ; And hermits are contented with their cells ; And students with their pensive citadels ; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy ; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells...
Page 377 - Several Poems compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight...
Page 40 - From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow : The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air.