Voices of the True-heartedMerrihew & Thompson, printers, 1846 - 288 էջ |
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... thou stayed so long ! " THE LIGHT OF STARS . The night is come , but not too soon ; And sinking silently , All silently , the little moon Drops down behind the sky . There is no light in earth or heaven , But the cold light of stars ...
... thou stayed so long ! " THE LIGHT OF STARS . The night is come , but not too soon ; And sinking silently , All silently , the little moon Drops down behind the sky . There is no light in earth or heaven , But the cold light of stars ...
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... Thou suffer not , who didst create mankind free ! nor BLIND OLD MILTON . BY WILLIAM E. AYTOUN . The following beautiful poem is from the December number of Blackwood's Magazine It is a noble pic - Thou next , who didst redeem us from ...
... Thou suffer not , who didst create mankind free ! nor BLIND OLD MILTON . BY WILLIAM E. AYTOUN . The following beautiful poem is from the December number of Blackwood's Magazine It is a noble pic - Thou next , who didst redeem us from ...
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... thou the same as when in manhood's pride I walked in joy thy grassy meads among , With that fair , youthful vision by my side , In whose bright eyes I looked - and not in vain ? O , my adored angel ! O , my bride ! Despite of years ...
... thou the same as when in manhood's pride I walked in joy thy grassy meads among , With that fair , youthful vision by my side , In whose bright eyes I looked - and not in vain ? O , my adored angel ! O , my bride ! Despite of years ...
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... thou see'st a MAN In prince or peasant - slave or lord- Pale priest or swarthy artisan . Through all disguise , form , place , or name , Beneath the flaunting robes of sin , Through poverty and squallid shame , Thou lookest on the man ...
... thou see'st a MAN In prince or peasant - slave or lord- Pale priest or swarthy artisan . Through all disguise , form , place , or name , Beneath the flaunting robes of sin , Through poverty and squallid shame , Thou lookest on the man ...
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... thou , Who minglest in the harder strife For truths which men receive not now , Thy warfare only ends with life . A friendless warfare ! lingering long Through weary day and weary year ; A wild and many - weaponed throng Hang on thy ...
... thou , Who minglest in the harder strife For truths which men receive not now , Thy warfare only ends with life . A friendless warfare ! lingering long Through weary day and weary year ; A wild and many - weaponed throng Hang on thy ...
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Էջ 270 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near...
Էջ 165 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock. The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Էջ 207 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Էջ 21 - ... coldly The rough river ran — Over the brink of it: Picture it — think of it, Dissolute Man! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care: Fashion'd so slenderly, Young and so fair!
Էջ 268 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Էջ 21 - Who was her father? Who was her mother? Had she a sister? Had she a brother? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet than all other?
Էջ 215 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Էջ 1 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior!
Էջ 258 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side...
Էջ 250 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread : Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this