The American Common-place Book of Poetry, with Occasional Notes |
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... hath no last sleep ; the strife To end itself , but wakes intenser life In the self - torturing spirit . Fool , give o'er ! Hast thou once been , yet think'st to be no more ? What ! life destroy itself ? O , idlest dream , Shaped in ...
... hath no last sleep ; the strife To end itself , but wakes intenser life In the self - torturing spirit . Fool , give o'er ! Hast thou once been , yet think'st to be no more ? What ! life destroy itself ? O , idlest dream , Shaped in ...
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... Hath it the power To cause or cure thy melancholy mood ? [ He appears lost in thought . ] Tell me , ascrib'st thou influence to the stars ? Had . ( starting . ) The stars ! stars ? What know'st thou of the Tam . I know that they were ...
... Hath it the power To cause or cure thy melancholy mood ? [ He appears lost in thought . ] Tell me , ascrib'st thou influence to the stars ? Had . ( starting . ) The stars ! stars ? What know'st thou of the Tam . I know that they were ...
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... hath shaken off , Bend lightly to her tendencies again ? O no ! by all her loveliness , by all That makes life poetry and beauty , no ! Make her a slave ; steal from her rosy cheek By needless jealousies ; let the last star Leave her a ...
... hath shaken off , Bend lightly to her tendencies again ? O no ! by all her loveliness , by all That makes life poetry and beauty , no ! Make her a slave ; steal from her rosy cheek By needless jealousies ; let the last star Leave her a ...
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... dream , And thought of the dark stream In my own land of Egypt , the deep Nile , How prayed I that my father's land might be An heritage for thee ! 3 * ' And now the grave for its cold breast hath COMMON - PLACE BOOK OF POETRY . 29.
... dream , And thought of the dark stream In my own land of Egypt , the deep Nile , How prayed I that my father's land might be An heritage for thee ! 3 * ' And now the grave for its cold breast hath COMMON - PLACE BOOK OF POETRY . 29.
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' And now the grave for its cold breast hath won thee , And thy white , delicate limbs the earth will press ; And oh my last caress Must feel thee cold , for a chill hand is on thee . How can I leave my boy , so pillowed there Upon his ...
' And now the grave for its cold breast hath won thee , And thy white , delicate limbs the earth will press ; And oh my last caress Must feel thee cold , for a chill hand is on thee . How can I leave my boy , so pillowed there Upon his ...
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Page 46 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 129 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 128 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Page 127 - 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 27 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 47 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 28 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 128 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 141 - Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees.
Page 27 - Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers...