A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best PoetsWilliam Cullen Bryant |
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... lips ' gin suing , And , some gentle heart's bars undoing , Thou dost enter , love - crowned , and there Sittest love - glorified ! - Rule kindly , Tenderly over thy kingdom fair ; For we that love , ah ! we love so blindly , Philip ...
... lips ' gin suing , And , some gentle heart's bars undoing , Thou dost enter , love - crowned , and there Sittest love - glorified ! - Rule kindly , Tenderly over thy kingdom fair ; For we that love , ah ! we love so blindly , Philip ...
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... lips , Out to his little finger - tips ! Softly sinking , down he goes ! Down he goes ! down he goes ! See ! he's hushed in sweet repose . JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND . CHOOSING A NAME . I HAVE got a new - born sister ; I was nigh the first ...
... lips , Out to his little finger - tips ! Softly sinking , down he goes ! Down he goes ! down he goes ! See ! he's hushed in sweet repose . JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND . CHOOSING A NAME . I HAVE got a new - born sister ; I was nigh the first ...
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... lip re- soundeth ; Thine was the eager spirit naught could cloy , And the glad heart from which all grief re ... lips , and dauntless brow , Fit for the world's strife , not for poet's dream- ing ; And proud the lifting of thy ...
... lip re- soundeth ; Thine was the eager spirit naught could cloy , And the glad heart from which all grief re ... lips , and dauntless brow , Fit for the world's strife , not for poet's dream- ing ; And proud the lifting of thy ...
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... lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last . Those lips are thine , - thy own sweet smile I see , The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails , else how distinct they say , Where ...
... lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last . Those lips are thine , - thy own sweet smile I see , The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails , else how distinct they say , Where ...
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... lips reluctantly apart , The white teeth struggling into sight , The dimples eddying o'er her cheek , The rosy cheek that won't be still ; - O , who could blame what flatterers speak , Did smiles like this reward their skill ? For such ...
... lips reluctantly apart , The white teeth struggling into sight , The dimples eddying o'er her cheek , The rosy cheek that won't be still ; - O , who could blame what flatterers speak , Did smiles like this reward their skill ? For such ...
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Page 684 - ed to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains, And like a prophetess of May Strewed flowers upon the barren way, Making the wintry world appear Like one on whom thou smilest, dear. Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood
Page 712 - long legs " and thighs Passed the common in shape or in color or size, He was wont to consider an absolute prize. Well, it happened one day, — I really can't say The particular month ; hut I think Ч was in May, — 'T was, I know,
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Page 536 - я fair. Give me but what this ribbon bound," perfumes his wings ; While the waters murmur deep ; While the shepherd charms his sheep ; While the birds unbounded fly, •из POEMS OF NATURE. And with music fill the sky, Now, even now, my joys run high. Be full, ye courts ; be great who will ; Search for
Page 297 - hymn ! in swarming cities vast, Assembled men to the deep organ join T
Page 446 - And often after sunset, sir, When it U light and fair, I take my little porringer, And eat my gnpper there. " The first that died was Sister Jane ; In bed she moaning lay. Till God released her of her pain ; And the» she went away.
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Page 540 - CAROLINE NORTON. HIGH-TIDE ON THE COAST OP LIN COLNSHIRE. Тик old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three ; " Play uppe, play uppe, О Boston belK ! Ply all your changes, all