The Evergreen, Volume 1J. Winchester, 1840 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... dark richness , to the sunny air ; Where yon blue stream , a thousand flowers - banks laving ! Leads down the bill a vein of light - ' t is there . ' Mid these green haunts how many a spring lies gleaming , Fringed with the violet ...
... dark richness , to the sunny air ; Where yon blue stream , a thousand flowers - banks laving ! Leads down the bill a vein of light - ' t is there . ' Mid these green haunts how many a spring lies gleaming , Fringed with the violet ...
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... dark and drear . And yet how freely Do divine Art and Nature ( more divine ) Scatter their gifts ! All ' s calm ; all ' s beautiful . How tenderly , the soft , sad evening air Whispers the waves ; and , hark , the waves reply ! How ...
... dark and drear . And yet how freely Do divine Art and Nature ( more divine ) Scatter their gifts ! All ' s calm ; all ' s beautiful . How tenderly , the soft , sad evening air Whispers the waves ; and , hark , the waves reply ! How ...
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... dark - tressed maid beneath the softening hour , As fain to lose no touch of thy sad streaming , Leans to the night from forth her latticed bower ; " And the low whispering air , and thy lone ditty , Around her heart their mingled ...
... dark - tressed maid beneath the softening hour , As fain to lose no touch of thy sad streaming , Leans to the night from forth her latticed bower ; " And the low whispering air , and thy lone ditty , Around her heart their mingled ...
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... dark - eyed beauty was heard from the cottage , singing one of the many songs which Gil Gomez had composed in her honor . She in- te rrupted herself to answer Senhora Mencia's question , and then recommenced her song : " The Beacon last ...
... dark - eyed beauty was heard from the cottage , singing one of the many songs which Gil Gomez had composed in her honor . She in- te rrupted herself to answer Senhora Mencia's question , and then recommenced her song : " The Beacon last ...
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... dark to prepare . There was armor for warriors - a strong coat of black , Made plain and of proof , for the beetle's stout back ; While others more brilliant , and slighter of mould , Were burnished like emeralds , or studded with gold ...
... dark to prepare . There was armor for warriors - a strong coat of black , Made plain and of proof , for the beetle's stout back ; While others more brilliant , and slighter of mould , Were burnished like emeralds , or studded with gold ...
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Page 40 - Now let there be the merry sound of music and of dance, Through thy corn-fields green, and sunny vines, oh pleasant land of France! And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Page 2 - I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill, I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still. There was no burr of grasshopper, No chirp of any bird—- But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.
Page 76 - And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him : and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand ; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Page 191 - ... naked, from ceiled roofs to arched coffins, from living like gods to die like men. There is enough to cool the flames of lust, to abate the heights of pride, to appease the itch of covetous desires, to sully and dash out the dissembling colours of a lustful, artificial, and imaginary beauty. There the warlike and the peaceful, the fortunate and the miserable, the beloved and the despised princes mingle their dust, and pay down their symbol of mortality, and tell all the world, that when we die...
Page 99 - And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf, On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.
Page 40 - The king is come to marshal us, in all his armor drest, And he has bound a snow-white plume upon his gallant crest. He looked upon his people, and a tear was in his eye ; He looked upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing, Down all our line, in deafening shout,
Page 212 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread, She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
Page 44 - THE BELEAGUERED CITY. I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead.
Page 99 - IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. , Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds That ope in the month of May.
Page 40 - Bartholomew," was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe : Down, down, with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.