Poems, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields, 1860 |
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... 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- ror , There were no need of arsenals nor ...
... 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- ror , There were no need of arsenals nor ...
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... voice of Christ say , " Peace ! " Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals , The holy melodies of love arise . NUREMBERG . In the valley of ...
... voice of Christ say , " Peace ! " Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals , The holy melodies of love arise . NUREMBERG . In the valley of ...
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... voice repeated Many a prayer and pater - noster , From the missal on his knee ; And , amid the tempest pealing , Sounds of bells came faintly stealing , Bells , that , from the neighboring kloster , Rang for the Nativity . In the hall ...
... voice repeated Many a prayer and pater - noster , From the missal on his knee ; And , amid the tempest pealing , Sounds of bells came faintly stealing , Bells , that , from the neighboring kloster , Rang for the Nativity . In the hall ...
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... falls . The sound of thy merry voice Makes the old walls Jubilant , and they rejoice With the joy of thy young heart , O'er the light of whose gladness No shadows of sadness From the sombre background of memory 48 POEMS .
... falls . The sound of thy merry voice Makes the old walls Jubilant , and they rejoice With the joy of thy young heart , O'er the light of whose gladness No shadows of sadness From the sombre background of memory 48 POEMS .
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... Dost persecute and overwhelm These hapless Troglodytes of thy realm ! What ! tired already ! with those suppliant looks , And voice more beautiful than a poet's books , Or murmuring sound of water as it flows , Thou 50 POEMS .
... Dost persecute and overwhelm These hapless Troglodytes of thy realm ! What ! tired already ! with those suppliant looks , And voice more beautiful than a poet's books , Or murmuring sound of water as it flows , Thou 50 POEMS .
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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.