A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best PoetsWilliam Cullen Bryant |
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... shine again in your place . O velvet Bee ! you ' re a dusty fellow , You ' ve powdered your legs with gold . O brave marsh Mary - buds , rich and yellow , Give me your money to hold ! O O Columbine ! open your folded wrapper , Where two ...
... shine again in your place . O velvet Bee ! you ' re a dusty fellow , You ' ve powdered your legs with gold . O brave marsh Mary - buds , rich and yellow , Give me your money to hold ! O O Columbine ! open your folded wrapper , Where two ...
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... shine ; Of the black wasp's cunning way , Mason of his walls of clay , And the architectural plans Of gray hornet artisans ! - For , eschewing books and tasks , Nature answers all he asks ; Hand in hand with her he walks , Face to face ...
... shine ; Of the black wasp's cunning way , Mason of his walls of clay , And the architectural plans Of gray hornet artisans ! - For , eschewing books and tasks , Nature answers all he asks ; Hand in hand with her he walks , Face to face ...
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... shine on all alike . Yet , graceful ease , and sweetness void of pride , Might hide her faults , if belles had faults te hide ; O , ' t is then that mortals pant while they gaze on Bacchus ' plant , O , ' t is then , will my simile ...
... shine on all alike . Yet , graceful ease , and sweetness void of pride , Might hide her faults , if belles had faults te hide ; O , ' t is then that mortals pant while they gaze on Bacchus ' plant , O , ' t is then , will my simile ...
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... shine : Meet you her , my Wishes , Bespeak her to my blisses , And be ye called , my absent kisses . I wish her beauty That owes not all its duty To gaudy tire , or glist'ring shoe - tie : Something more than Taffeta or tissue can , Or ...
... shine : Meet you her , my Wishes , Bespeak her to my blisses , And be ye called , my absent kisses . I wish her beauty That owes not all its duty To gaudy tire , or glist'ring shoe - tie : Something more than Taffeta or tissue can , Or ...
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... shine the brighter After weeping tears of dew ; Above the wind and fire , love , They love the ages through ! And when this life is o'er , love , With all its joys and jars , We'll leave behind the wind and fire To wage their boisterous ...
... shine the brighter After weeping tears of dew ; Above the wind and fire , love , They love the ages through ! And when this life is o'er , love , With all its joys and jars , We'll leave behind the wind and fire To wage their boisterous ...
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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,
Page 565 - ou ! Lightismyheart since the day we were plighted ; Kedisniy cheek that they told me
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