The Sibyl: Or, New Oracles from the PoetsCaroline Howard Gilman |
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... few art eminently seen , That labor up the hill of heavenly truth . MILTON . 16. Thou dost live for others , thou hast found Thyself most blest when all were blest around . S. G. BULFINCH . 17. You are a riddle - solve you who can 35.
... few art eminently seen , That labor up the hill of heavenly truth . MILTON . 16. Thou dost live for others , thou hast found Thyself most blest when all were blest around . S. G. BULFINCH . 17. You are a riddle - solve you who can 35.
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... And not a winged thing , Which like a swallow lives and flits from tree to tree , And can but love in spring . D'HUXATIME . . THE IDEAL OF FEMALE LOVELINESS , AS IMAGED BY 4 * 41 Meek, modest, temperate and calm, ...
... And not a winged thing , Which like a swallow lives and flits from tree to tree , And can but love in spring . D'HUXATIME . . THE IDEAL OF FEMALE LOVELINESS , AS IMAGED BY 4 * 41 Meek, modest, temperate and calm, ...
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... Lives there on earth a power like that which lies In those resistless tones , in those dark eyes ? 31 . Had lilies eyes , BARRY CORNWALL . With glad surprise They'd own themselves undone , When her pure brow And neck of snow Gleam in ...
... Lives there on earth a power like that which lies In those resistless tones , in those dark eyes ? 31 . Had lilies eyes , BARRY CORNWALL . With glad surprise They'd own themselves undone , When her pure brow And neck of snow Gleam in ...
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... lives above the crowd , nor hears the noise Of wars and triumphs , nor regards the shouts Of popular applause . WATTS . 18. He possesses for riches content , and for honors quiet . His thoughts are not higher than his fortunes , nor his ...
... lives above the crowd , nor hears the noise Of wars and triumphs , nor regards the shouts Of popular applause . WATTS . 18. He possesses for riches content , and for honors quiet . His thoughts are not higher than his fortunes , nor his ...
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... live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all . Such man are you , and such a time is this That your sole fate concerns a nation more Than its immediate welfare ; and to prove Your rectitude , and duly crown the ...
... live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all . Such man are you , and such a time is this That your sole fate concerns a nation more Than its immediate welfare ; and to prove Your rectitude , and duly crown the ...
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Page 245 - Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company! To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 230 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 103 - Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences...
Page 147 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 101 - This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — And mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive...
Page 144 - There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
Page 94 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 251 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 85 - For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart . . . how shall I say? . . . too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. Sir, 'twas all one!
Page 59 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.