Select Poems: Being the Literature Prescribed for the Junior Matriculation and Junior Leaving Examinations, 1905John Marshall, Orlando John Stevenson Copp, Clark Company, 1904 - 239 pages |
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... Written their history stands on tablets of stone in the church- yards . 15 Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered , Lowly and meek in spirit , and patiently suffering all things . Fair was she and young ; but , alas ...
... Written their history stands on tablets of stone in the church- yards . 15 Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered , Lowly and meek in spirit , and patiently suffering all things . Fair was she and young ; but , alas ...
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... written . Gabriel was it , who , weary with waiting , unhappy and rest- less , 169 Sought in the Western wilds oblivion of self and of sorrow . Swiftly they glided along , close under the lee of the island , But by the opposite bank ...
... written . Gabriel was it , who , weary with waiting , unhappy and rest- less , 169 Sought in the Western wilds oblivion of self and of sorrow . Swiftly they glided along , close under the lee of the island , But by the opposite bank ...
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... written upon them , " Upharsin . " And the soul of the maiden , between the stars and the fire- flies , Wandered alone , and she cried , " O Gabriel ! O my beloved ! Art thou so near unto me , and yet I cannot behold thee ? Art thou so ...
... written upon them , " Upharsin . " And the soul of the maiden , between the stars and the fire- flies , Wandered alone , and she cried , " O Gabriel ! O my beloved ! Art thou so near unto me , and yet I cannot behold thee ? Art thou so ...
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... Hawthorne the novelist . Some twenty poems written during these years and contributed to the United States ' Literary Gazette , while show- ing little originality of thought or fancy are graceful and 98 NOTES ON LONGFELLOW .
... Hawthorne the novelist . Some twenty poems written during these years and contributed to the United States ' Literary Gazette , while show- ing little originality of thought or fancy are graceful and 98 NOTES ON LONGFELLOW .
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... written the poem upon which his poetic reputation rests , Evangeline , a Tale of Acadie . Kavanagh , a novel , and a volume of poems entitled Seaside and Fireside , including Resigna- tion , and The Song of the Ship , appeared in 1849 ...
... written the poem upon which his poetic reputation rests , Evangeline , a Tale of Acadie . Kavanagh , a novel , and a volume of poems entitled Seaside and Fireside , including Resigna- tion , and The Song of the Ship , appeared in 1849 ...
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Page 225 - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 218 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 69 - The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Page 227 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 2 - Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Page 214 - Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 216 - 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: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 214 - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 239 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide; 'Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?' I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his state Is kingly: thousands...
Page 111 - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.