A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best PoetsWilliam Cullen Bryant |
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... Sweet Day . " Sweetest Saviour , if my soul " 285 HERRICK , ROBERT . England , 1591-1674- Scotland , 1785-1838 . " A sweet disorder in the dress " Litany 263 Daffodils " When gathering clouds around I view " 274 " Fair pledges of a ...
... Sweet Day . " Sweetest Saviour , if my soul " 285 HERRICK , ROBERT . England , 1591-1674- Scotland , 1785-1838 . " A sweet disorder in the dress " Litany 263 Daffodils " When gathering clouds around I view " 274 " Fair pledges of a ...
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... Sweet Meeting of Desires . 96 PRIOR , MATTHEW . England , 1664-1721 . PAYNE , JOHN HOWARD . Lady's Looking - Glass , The 85 New York City , 1792-1852 . Home , sweet Home PROCTER , ADELAIDE ANNE . 133 Lucius Junius Brutus's Oration over ...
... Sweet Meeting of Desires . 96 PRIOR , MATTHEW . England , 1664-1721 . PAYNE , JOHN HOWARD . Lady's Looking - Glass , The 85 New York City , 1792-1852 . Home , sweet Home PROCTER , ADELAIDE ANNE . 133 Lucius Junius Brutus's Oration over ...
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... sweet tune , Morning rises into noon , May glides onward into June . Childhood is the bough where slumbered Birds and blossoms many - numbered ; Age , that bough with snows encumbered . Gather , then , each flower that grows , When the ...
... sweet tune , Morning rises into noon , May glides onward into June . Childhood is the bough where slumbered Birds and blossoms many - numbered ; Age , that bough with snows encumbered . Gather , then , each flower that grows , When the ...
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... sweet April's dawn appears Her modest face , - I see it yet , And though I lived a hundred years Methinks I never could forget The pleasure that , despite her heart , Fills all her downcast eyes with light , The lips reluctantly apart ...
... sweet April's dawn appears Her modest face , - I see it yet , And though I lived a hundred years Methinks I never could forget The pleasure that , despite her heart , Fills all her downcast eyes with light , The lips reluctantly apart ...
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... sweet in view : Heigh - ho , fair Rosaline ! Nature herself her shape admires ; The gods are wounded in her sight ; And Love forsakes his heavenly fires And at her eyes his brand doth light : Heigh - ho , would she were mine ! Then muse ...
... sweet in view : Heigh - ho , fair Rosaline ! Nature herself her shape admires ; The gods are wounded in her sight ; And Love forsakes his heavenly fires And at her eyes his brand doth light : Heigh - ho , would she were mine ! Then muse ...
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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