Poems, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields, 1860 |
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... thou didst pass . Thy dress was like the lilies , And thy heart as pure as they : One of God's holy messengers Did walk with me that day . I saw the branches of the trees Bend down thy touch to meet , The clover - blossoms in the grass ...
... thou didst pass . Thy dress was like the lilies , And thy heart as pure as they : One of God's holy messengers Did walk with me that day . I saw the branches of the trees Bend down thy touch to meet , The clover - blossoms in the grass ...
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... Thou art no longer here : Part of the sunshine of the scene With thee did disappear . Though thoughts , deep rooted in my heart , Like pine - trees dark and high , Subdue the light of noon , and breathe A low and ceaseless sigh ; This ...
... Thou art no longer here : Part of the sunshine of the scene With thee did disappear . Though thoughts , deep rooted in my heart , Like pine - trees dark and high , Subdue the light of noon , and breathe A low and ceaseless sigh ; This ...
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... Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices , And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that fills the world with terror , Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts , Given to redeem the human mind from er ...
... Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices , And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that fills the world with terror , Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts , Given to redeem the human mind from er ...
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... Thou gazest at the painted tiles , Whose figures grace , With many a grotesque form and face , The ancient chimney of thy nursery ! The lady with the gay macaw , The dancing - girl , the grave bashaw With bearded lip and chin ; And ...
... Thou gazest at the painted tiles , Whose figures grace , With many a grotesque form and face , The ancient chimney of thy nursery ! The lady with the gay macaw , The dancing - girl , the grave bashaw With bearded lip and chin ; And ...
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... Thou shakest in thy little hand The coral rattle with its silver bells , Making a merry tune ! Thousands of years in Indian seas That coral grew , by slow degrees , Until some deadly and wild monsoon Dashed it on Coromandel's sand ...
... Thou shakest in thy little hand The coral rattle with its silver bells , Making a merry tune ! Thousands of years in Indian seas That coral grew , by slow degrees , Until some deadly and wild monsoon Dashed it on Coromandel's sand ...
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Page 353 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...
Page 78 - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Page 357 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.
Page 355 - She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead.
Page 153 - Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them, Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and the ear-rings, Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heirloom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations.
Page 79 - Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies.
Page 144 - This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Page 102 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 80 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 24 - ... rise the burnished arms; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies! I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own.