The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRoutledge and Sons, 1865 - 367 pages |
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Page 9
... sleep , Go to the woods and hills ! -No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears . BURIAL OF THE MINNISINK . ON sunny slope and beechen swell , The shadowed light of evening fell ; And , where the maple's leaf was brown , With soft ...
... sleep , Go to the woods and hills ! -No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears . BURIAL OF THE MINNISINK . ON sunny slope and beechen swell , The shadowed light of evening fell ; And , where the maple's leaf was brown , With soft ...
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... Sleep on the bosom , that thy lips have pressed ! Sleep , little one ; and closely , gently place Thy drowsy eyelid on thy mother's breast . Upon that tender eye , my little friend , Soft sleep shall come , that cometh not to me ! I ...
... Sleep on the bosom , that thy lips have pressed ! Sleep , little one ; and closely , gently place Thy drowsy eyelid on thy mother's breast . Upon that tender eye , my little friend , Soft sleep shall come , that cometh not to me ! I ...
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... sleeping with their heads to the westward . Each held a lighted taper in his hand when he died ; and in his coffin were placed his little heart - treasures , and a piece of money for his last journey . Babes that came lifeless into the ...
... sleeping with their heads to the westward . Each held a lighted taper in his hand when he died ; and in his coffin were placed his little heart - treasures , and a piece of money for his last journey . Babes that came lifeless into the ...
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... sleep are ye now , and the light in its radiant splendour Rains from the heaven downward ; -to - day on the threshold of childhood Kindly she frees you again , to examine and make your election , For she knows nought of compulsion , and ...
... sleep are ye now , and the light in its radiant splendour Rains from the heaven downward ; -to - day on the threshold of childhood Kindly she frees you again , to examine and make your election , For she knows nought of compulsion , and ...
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... sleeping . Calmly she gazes around in the turmoil of men ; in the desert Angels descend and minister unto her ; she herself knoweth Nought of her glorious attendance ; but follows faithful and humble , Follows so long as she may her ...
... sleeping . Calmly she gazes around in the turmoil of men ; in the desert Angels descend and minister unto her ; she herself knoweth Nought of her glorious attendance ; but follows faithful and humble , Follows so long as she may her ...
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