| American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...one misht be proud to have written, and which my one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I lore the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages...freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To brealhe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 pages
...as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, iSth, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. 1 LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To hreathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 422 pages
...not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, i8th, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning daw. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves... | |
| 1849 - 636 pages
...stanzas, which any one might be proud to have written, and which ID; one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I love the old melodious lays Which softly...time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my qniet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; 1 feel them, as the leaves and t'owcrs In silence... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...Heaven ! As the key-note of Whittier's poetry, we might take his own quaint and beautiful lines : — I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadia Sidney's silver phrase, Sprinkling o'er the noon of Time with freshest morning dew. Whittier's... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 pages
...to say that its subject is not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. j. aw PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly...phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest ifccrning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 pages
...necessary to say that its subjeft is not such as the writer would have chosen at an ' sequent period. JG W PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. The songs... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 pages
...not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMEsnmor, IStliSd mo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly...melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden daya, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet,... | |
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