I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Poemsby John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 pages
...Proem to the former collection commenced with these exquisite stanzas : "I love the old melodious lay a Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's...as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy ahowerR, And drink with glad, still lips the blessing of the sky." Spenser wrote nothing better than... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...one misht be proud to have written, and which my one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I lore the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages...freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To brealhe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 612 pages
...melodious laye Which softly melt the ages through, The Bonys of SPENSER'S golden days, Arcudiim HIDNEV'S silvery phra.se. Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. ' Yet vainly in my quirt hours To brent ho their marvellous notée I try; I feel them, ae the leaves and flowers ' In... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 pages
...as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, iSth, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. 1 LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To hreathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 422 pages
...as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, i8th, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning daw. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves... | |
| 1849 - 636 pages
...any one might be proud to have written, and which ID; one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my qniet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; 1 feel them, as the leaves and t'owcrs In silence... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...Heaven ! As the key-note of Whittier's poetry, we might take his own quaint and beautiful lines : — I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadia Sidney's silver phrase, Sprinkling o'er the noon of Time with freshest morning dew. Whittier's... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 pages
...that its subject is not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. j. aw PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest ifccrning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1871 - 506 pages
...oor noon of time with freshest morning dew. Vet, vainly in my qniet hoors To hreathe their marvellons notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers...silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad «ill lips the hlessing of the sky. The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an nntanght ear.... | |
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