The Golden LegendTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 301 pages |
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... thou voice within my breast ! Why entreat me , why upbraid me , When the steadfast tongues of truth And the flattering hopes of youth Have all deceived me and betrayed me ? Give me , give me rest , O , rest ! Golden visions wave and ...
... thou voice within my breast ! Why entreat me , why upbraid me , When the steadfast tongues of truth And the flattering hopes of youth Have all deceived me and betrayed me ? Give me , give me rest , O , rest ! Golden visions wave and ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Brave physician ! Rare physician ! Well hast thou fulfilled thy mission ! Alas ! alas ! His head falls on his book . THE ANGEL , receding . Like a vapor the golden vision Shall fade and pass , And thou wilt ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Brave physician ! Rare physician ! Well hast thou fulfilled thy mission ! Alas ! alas ! His head falls on his book . THE ANGEL , receding . Like a vapor the golden vision Shall fade and pass , And thou wilt ...
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... thou art dead , So in thy heart be penitent ! " And forth from the chapel door he went Into disgrace and banishment , Clothed in a cloak of hodden gray , And bearing a wallet , and a bell , Whose sound should be a perpetual knell To ...
... thou art dead , So in thy heart be penitent ! " And forth from the chapel door he went Into disgrace and banishment , Clothed in a cloak of hodden gray , And bearing a wallet , and a bell , Whose sound should be a perpetual knell To ...
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... thou standest there , Thou seemest to me like the angel That brought the immortal roses To Saint Cecilia's bridal chamber . But these will fade . ELSIE . PRINCE HENRY . Themselves will fade , But not their 50 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
... thou standest there , Thou seemest to me like the angel That brought the immortal roses To Saint Cecilia's bridal chamber . But these will fade . ELSIE . PRINCE HENRY . Themselves will fade , But not their 50 THE GOLDEN LEGEND .
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... thou hast been doing This morning , dearest Elsie . ELSIE . And as she gathered them , She wondered more and more Who was the Master of the Flowers , And made them grow Out of the cold , dark earth . " In my heart , " she said , " I ...
... thou hast been doing This morning , dearest Elsie . ELSIE . And as she gathered them , She wondered more and more Who was the Master of the Flowers , And made them grow Out of the cold , dark earth . " In my heart , " she said , " I ...
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Page 239 - And even as children, who have much offended A too indulgent father, in great shame, Penitent, and yet not daring unattended To go into his presence, at the gate Speak with their sister, and confiding wait Till she goes in before and intercedes; So men, repenting of their evil deeds, And yet not venturing rashly to draw near With their requests an angry father's ear, Offer to her their prayers and their confession, And she for them in heaven makes intercession. And if our faith had given us nothing...
Page 239 - THE INN AT GENOA. A terrace overlooking the sea. Night. PRINCE HENRY. IT is the sea, it is the sea, In all its vague immensity, Fading and darkening in the distance ! Silent, majestical, and slow, The white ships haunt it to and fro, With all their ghostly sails unfurled, As phantoms from...
Page 9 - Not to be cured, yet not incurable ! The only remedy that remains Is the blood that flows from a maiden's veins, \ Who of her own free will shall die, And give her life as the price of yours...
Page 34 - Rose an odor sweet and fragrant Of the wild-flowers and the vagrant Vines that wandered, Seeking the sunshine, round and round. These he heeded not, but pondered On the volume in his hand, A volume of Saint Augustine, Wherein he read of the unseen Splendors of God's great town In the unknown land, And, with his eyes cast down In humility, he said : " I believe, O God. What herein I have read, But alas ! I do not understand...
Page 289 - With sullen heat, As a storm-cloud lurid with lightning. And a cry of lamentation, Repeated and again repeated, Deep and loud As the reverberation Of cloud answering unto cloud, Swells and rolls away in the distance, As if the sheeted Lightning retreated, Baffled and thwarted by the wind's resistance. It is Lucifer, The son of mystery ; And since God suffers him to be, He, too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood ! SECOND INTERLUDE MARTIN LUTHER A chamber in the Wartburg.
Page 36 - Fall on the golden flagging of the street. And he would fain Have caught the wondrous bird, But strove in vain ; For it flew away, away, Far over hill and dell, And instead of its sweet singing He heard the convent bell Suddenly in the silence ringing For the service of noonday. And he retraced His pathway homeward sadly and in haste.