A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best PoetsWilliam Cullen Bryant |
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... tears , These , these are things that may demand Dread memories for years . Sorrows I've had , severe ones , I will not think of now ; And calmly , midst my dear ones , Have wasted with dry brow ; But when thy fingers press And pat my ...
... tears , These , these are things that may demand Dread memories for years . Sorrows I've had , severe ones , I will not think of now ; And calmly , midst my dear ones , Have wasted with dry brow ; But when thy fingers press And pat my ...
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... tears start ! WILLIAM C. BENNETT . From out a balmy bosom Our bud of beauty grew , It fed on smiles for sunshine , On tears for daintier dew : Aye nestling warm and tenderly , Our leaves of love were curled So close and close about our ...
... tears start ! WILLIAM C. BENNETT . From out a balmy bosom Our bud of beauty grew , It fed on smiles for sunshine , On tears for daintier dew : Aye nestling warm and tenderly , Our leaves of love were curled So close and close about our ...
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... tears within . Is there a leaf that greenly grows Where summer meadows bloom , But gathereth the winter snows , And changeth to the hue of those , If lasting till they come ? Is there a word , or jest , or game , But time encrusteth ...
... tears within . Is there a leaf that greenly grows Where summer meadows bloom , But gathereth the winter snows , And changeth to the hue of those , If lasting till they come ? Is there a word , or jest , or game , But time encrusteth ...
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... tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son , Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me , though unfelt , a kiss ; Perhaps a tear , if souls can weep in bliss Ah , that maternal smile ! it ...
... tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son , Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me , though unfelt , a kiss ; Perhaps a tear , if souls can weep in bliss Ah , that maternal smile ! it ...
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... tears . With earnest feeling I shall pray For thee when I am far away ; For never saw I mien or face In which more plainly I could trace Benignity and home - bred sense Ripening in perfect innocence . Here scattered like a random seed ...
... tears . With earnest feeling I shall pray For thee when I am far away ; For never saw I mien or face In which more plainly I could trace Benignity and home - bred sense Ripening in perfect innocence . Here scattered like a random seed ...
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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
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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
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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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