The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf WhittierJ. R. Osgood, 1878 - 505 pages |
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... leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers , And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky . The rigor of a frozen clime , The harshness of an untaught ear , The jarring words of one whose rhyme Beat often Labor's ...
... leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers , And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky . The rigor of a frozen clime , The harshness of an untaught ear , The jarring words of one whose rhyme Beat often Labor's ...
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... leaves : 1 Another , the click of his gun is heard ! A footstep - is it the step of Cleaves , With Indian blood on his English sword ? Steals Harmon 5 down from the sands of York , With hand of iron and foot of cork ? Has Scamman ...
... leaves : 1 Another , the click of his gun is heard ! A footstep - is it the step of Cleaves , With Indian blood on his English sword ? Steals Harmon 5 down from the sands of York , With hand of iron and foot of cork ? Has Scamman ...
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... leaves fine and small , Soft and sweetly musical , By the fingers of the air , For the anthem's dying fall Lingering ... leaf - harp faint and small , Speaking to the unsealed ear Words of blended love and fear , Of the mighty Soul of ...
... leaves fine and small , Soft and sweetly musical , By the fingers of the air , For the anthem's dying fall Lingering ... leaf - harp faint and small , Speaking to the unsealed ear Words of blended love and fear , Of the mighty Soul of ...
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... leaves , Each colored like a topaz gem ; And the tall maple wears with them The coronal which autumn gives , The brief , bright sign of ruin near , The hectic of a dying year ! The hermit priest , who lingers now On the Bald Mountain's ...
... leaves , Each colored like a topaz gem ; And the tall maple wears with them The coronal which autumn gives , The brief , bright sign of ruin near , The hectic of a dying year ! The hermit priest , who lingers now On the Bald Mountain's ...
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... leaves , that , thin and gray , Hang feebly on their parent spray , And tremble in the gale ; Yet watching o'er my childishness With patient fondness , not the less For all the agony which kept Her blue eye wakeful , while I slept ; And ...
... leaves , that , thin and gray , Hang feebly on their parent spray , And tremble in the gale ; Yet watching o'er my childishness With patient fondness , not the less For all the agony which kept Her blue eye wakeful , while I slept ; And ...
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Page 429 - Because," — the brown eyes lower fell, — "Because, you see, I love you!" Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and his loss, Like her, — because they love him.