The Midland Monthly Magazine, Volumes 9-10J. Birgham, 1898 |
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Page 473 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking. Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
Page 265 - COME, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies, I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks, By the love of comrades, By the manly love of comrades.
Page 473 - And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Page 384 - Homme, libre penseur ! te crois-tu seul pensant Dans ce monde où la vie éclate en toute chose? Des forces que tu tiens ta liberté dispose, Mais de tous tes conseils l'univers est absent. Respecte dans la bête un esprit agissant: Chaque fleur est une âme à la Nature éclose; ' Un mystère d'amour dans le métal repose ; « Tout est sensible ! » Et tout sur ton être est puissant.
Page 52 - My heart resumed its place. It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before ; but it was one I never forgot afterwards. From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.
Page 102 - ... life and the world before dealing with them in poetry ; and life and the world being in modern times very complex things, the creation of a modern poet, to be worth much, implies a great critical effort behind it ; else it must be a comparatively poor, barren, and shortlived affair.
Page 266 - And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause, With foam, and with dust the black charger was gray, By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play, He seemed to the whole great army to say, "I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winchester down to save the day!
Page 525 - SIR: — The distribution of the forces under my command, incident to an unexpected change of commanders, and the overwhelming force under your command, compel me, notwithstanding the brilliant success of the Confederate arms yesterday, to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms which you propose.
Page 205 - It is hard to censure a successful general immediately after a victory, but I think he richly deserves it. I can get no returns, no reports, no information of any kind from him. Satisfied with his victory, he sits down and enjoys it without any regard to the future. I am worn out and tired with this neglect and inefficiency. CF Smith is almost the only officer equal to the emergency.
Page 384 - Respecte dans la bête un esprit agissant : Chaque fleur est une âme à la Nature éclose; Un mystère d'amour dans le métal repose; « Tout est sensible. > Et tout sur ton être est puissant. Crains, dans le mur aveugle, un regard qui t'épie ! A la matière même un verbe est attaché... Ne la fais pas servir à quelque usage impie ! Souvent dans l'être obscur habite un Dieu caché; Et, comme un œil naissant couvert par ses paupières, Un pur esprit s'accroît sous l'écorce des pierres.