 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...beauty ; and she glides • Than-a-tor/sis ; a word of Greek derivation, signifying a view of death. Into his darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy,...that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. 9 When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Ovor thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern... | |
 | 1847 - 412 pages
...the dust, with which they are at last to mingle, and suggesting to the equally distempered mind, " Sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Which make us shudder, and grow sick at heart" The curse took effect, in the second place, on the intellectual... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile, And eloquence of beauty, and she glides 5 Into his darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy,...come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images 10 Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee... | |
 | Sarah C. Carter - American poetry - 1850 - 144 pages
...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 gentle sympathy,...that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware." To the Evening Wind. " Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou Thatcool'st the twilight of the... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides ^ Into her darker musing-, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is awar*. CULTURE AND USE OF THE POTATO. Thanks to my humble nature, while I've limbs, Tastes, senses,... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - English language - 1851 - 204 pages
...For his gayer hours, She has a voice of gladness, and a smile Andeloquence ofbeauly; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy,...steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When though ts Of the last bitter how come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony,... | |
 | George Higby Throop - 1851 - 250 pages
...worshiper, Nature hath " For his gayer hours * • * a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy,...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware." I spent perhaps an hour in the shade of the pines, and returned home. As I entered the house, I heard... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - Hawaii - 1851 - 446 pages
...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 gentle sympathy,...that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. And Wordsworth, better than either : Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,... | |
 | Thomas Peter Akers - Greensburg (Ky.) - 1851 - 538 pages
...greatest possible calamity has fallen 1 Who has passed to that bourne from whence no traveller returns, " When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over the spirit, and sad images Of the stem agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1852 - 384 pages
...a smile And ej^ojience_ofJb.eaiityr^Bd-she glides Into his darker jnusingSj with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away ^ Their sharpness, ere...shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrowjipuse, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart ; — Go forth, under the open sky, and... | |
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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... 
