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... breath as they left the room , With a shudder to glance at its stillness and gloom . But he who loved her too well to dread - The sweet , the stately , the beautiful dead , — He lit his lamp , and took the key , And turn'd it ! Alone ...
... breath as they left the room , With a shudder to glance at its stillness and gloom . But he who loved her too well to dread - The sweet , the stately , the beautiful dead , — He lit his lamp , and took the key , And turn'd it ! Alone ...
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... breath of my soul to hear ; - " I listen as deep as to horrible hell , As high as to heaven ! - and you do not tell ! " There must be pleasures in dying , Sweet , To make you so placid from head to feet ! " I would tell you , Darling ...
... breath of my soul to hear ; - " I listen as deep as to horrible hell , As high as to heaven ! - and you do not tell ! " There must be pleasures in dying , Sweet , To make you so placid from head to feet ! " I would tell you , Darling ...
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... breath . " I should laugh for joy if you did not cry ; Oh , listen ! Love lasts ! - Love never will die . " I am only your Angel who was your Bride ; And I know , that though dead , I have never died . " WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY BY SIR ...
... breath . " I should laugh for joy if you did not cry ; Oh , listen ! Love lasts ! - Love never will die . " I am only your Angel who was your Bride ; And I know , that though dead , I have never died . " WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY BY SIR ...
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... breath of Spring And hopes that thrill and pine ? Dost thou know enough , that Life is good ; That Life is joy untold , As free and broad as sunset ray ? A clay it is , for thine own hand to mold ; To make or mar it And what is Love ...
... breath of Spring And hopes that thrill and pine ? Dost thou know enough , that Life is good ; That Life is joy untold , As free and broad as sunset ray ? A clay it is , for thine own hand to mold ; To make or mar it And what is Love ...
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... breath And so is Death . ' Tis but a dream , A sleep a tender kiss ; A pillow for thy care and tear ; It is not , then , amiss . And what is Life ? And what is Love ? And what is Death ? so pure and free ; Seek , child , no more , nor ...
... breath And so is Death . ' Tis but a dream , A sleep a tender kiss ; A pillow for thy care and tear ; It is not , then , amiss . And what is Life ? And what is Love ? And what is Death ? so pure and free ; Seek , child , no more , nor ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON angels apple-tree auld lang syne beautiful bells beneath bird blessed blue Blynken brave break breast breath bright brow cold dark dead dear death door doth dream dying earth eyes face fair fathers feet flowers forever Gilpin glad glory grave grew hand hath hear heard heart heathen Chinee heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ivy green JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JOHN GODFREY SAXE kiss Lady Clare land laugh light lips live look Lord Mary mother Nelly Gray never nevermore night o'er old Kentucky home Queen rest rose sang seems shine shore silence sing sleep smile song sorrow soul star-spangled banner stars sweet tears tell tender thee There's thine THOMAS HOOD thou thought to-night tree Twas Vere de Vere voice wait wave weary weep wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind word
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Page 38 - To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language: for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 135 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 249 - ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ' 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, ' tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 325 - THE BAREFOOT BOY. Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace; From my heart I give thee joy,— I was once a barefoot boy!
Page 327 - A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad: 10 Her eyes were fair, and very fair; — Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be ? " " How many ? Seven in all," she said And wondering looked at me.
Page 188 - Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave...
Page 189 - Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies — The Captains and the Kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.
Page 134 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 188 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 257 - thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that bends above us — by that God we both adore — Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore ?