From a New England Hillside: Notes from UnderledgeMacmillan and Company, 1895 - 305 pages |
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... earth as well as your small globe is hollow , and that all dolls , big and little , are stuffed with sawdust ? How petty the awful universe must seem to such people ! Have they ever thought , after the ancient poet , " When I consider ...
... earth as well as your small globe is hollow , and that all dolls , big and little , are stuffed with sawdust ? How petty the awful universe must seem to such people ! Have they ever thought , after the ancient poet , " When I consider ...
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... ; while the steady old earth , which has already seen so many , many summers , revolves upon its axis - shall I say , like a turkey on a spit ? -no , that would be quite too material ; like FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE . 69.
... ; while the steady old earth , which has already seen so many , many summers , revolves upon its axis - shall I say , like a turkey on a spit ? -no , that would be quite too material ; like FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE . 69.
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... earth Richly with golden showers , Filling our hearts with gladness and mirth , Bringing the birds and flowers ; Joy giving sunshine , happy are we In the new life that comes from thee ! Softly the raindrops , falling in showers ...
... earth Richly with golden showers , Filling our hearts with gladness and mirth , Bringing the birds and flowers ; Joy giving sunshine , happy are we In the new life that comes from thee ! Softly the raindrops , falling in showers ...
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... earth by these soft , limp , almost structureless bodies , as Darwin has shown . If any one has a lingering doubt as to the value of individual effort on the part of the ordinary mortal , albeit uncon- scious effort , and without ...
... earth by these soft , limp , almost structureless bodies , as Darwin has shown . If any one has a lingering doubt as to the value of individual effort on the part of the ordinary mortal , albeit uncon- scious effort , and without ...
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... earth between me and my own woodland , spans the site of the future home . Shall I , just for this once , be a trifle superstitious , and accept the token as a welcome harbin- ger of the better days that are to be ? APRIL 24 , 1894 ...
... earth between me and my own woodland , spans the site of the future home . Shall I , just for this once , be a trifle superstitious , and accept the token as a welcome harbin- ger of the better days that are to be ? APRIL 24 , 1894 ...
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75 Cents asters beautiful become bipeds birds blossom blue branches breeze cardinal flower chokecherries climb clouds colour comes delicate distant hills doubtless earth eyes fade falling feel feet fields flowers fringed gentian glow golden-rod GOLDWIN SMITH grass grass of Parnassus green ground hand hear heart heavens heavy hillside hope hour human JULY 29 labour leaves light live long day wanes look miles Minorca morning mountain Nature neighbour night ovipositor passed past path perhaps pleasant Plymouth Rock rain remember road rock scattered scribe seems shadow shower shrubs side slope snow sometimes spirit steam engine street sure sweet things thought tion tivated to-day touch trees Underledge valley village vines wave week wholly wild carrot wind witch hazel wonder wood yesterday
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Page 271 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks : The long day wanes : the slow moon climbs : the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : 281 It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken,...
Page 1 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 103 - Under the greenwood tree * Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither : Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.* JAQ.
Page 49 - ARIEL'S song. Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have and kiss'd The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
Page 154 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 270 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 304 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Page 87 - I saw her upon nearer view. A Spirit, yet a Woman too! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 270 - As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: 'Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.