Poems, by Edward Rowland Sill.Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1889 - 124 pages |
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... heart to fever , and he hears The west wind's mocking laughter when he turns , Shivering in mist of ocean's sullen tears . It is the Medicean : well I know The arts her ancient subtlety will show ; 8 The Venus of Milo The stubble ...
... heart to fever , and he hears The west wind's mocking laughter when he turns , Shivering in mist of ocean's sullen tears . It is the Medicean : well I know The arts her ancient subtlety will show ; 8 The Venus of Milo The stubble ...
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... heart the dark- ness stills , Shall tell me , without sound or any sight , That other footsteps are upon the hills ; Till the dim earth is luminous with the light Of the white dawn , from some far - hidden shore , That shines upon thy ...
... heart the dark- ness stills , Shall tell me , without sound or any sight , That other footsteps are upon the hills ; Till the dim earth is luminous with the light Of the white dawn , from some far - hidden shore , That shines upon thy ...
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... for spheres more blest , Save for some trouble , half - confessed , Some least misgiving , all my heart With such a world were satisfied . Had every day such skies of blue , Field Notes 15 Were men all wise , and women.
... for spheres more blest , Save for some trouble , half - confessed , Some least misgiving , all my heart With such a world were satisfied . Had every day such skies of blue , Field Notes 15 Were men all wise , and women.
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... hearts and the heroic mind . Of atom force and chemic stew Nor Socrates nor Cæsar knew , But the old ages knew a plan – The lost art how to mold a man . VI . World , wise old world , What may man do for thee ? Thou that art greater than ...
... hearts and the heroic mind . Of atom force and chemic stew Nor Socrates nor Cæsar knew , But the old ages knew a plan – The lost art how to mold a man . VI . World , wise old world , What may man do for thee ? Thou that art greater than ...
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... And a thousand generations passed away . Then from the bed of a brook one day A boy with the heart of a king Fitted the stone to his shepherd sling , And a giant fell , and a royal race was free . • 18 Field Notes Not out of any cloud or.
... And a thousand generations passed away . Then from the bed of a brook one day A boy with the heart of a king Fitted the stone to his shepherd sling , And a giant fell , and a royal race was free . • 18 Field Notes Not out of any cloud or.
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Page 62 - The royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!" The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before; , They could not see the bitter smile Behind the painted grin he wore. He bowed his head, and bent his knee Upon the monarch's silken stool; His pleading voice arose: "O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool! 'No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool: The...
Page 27 - FORENOON and afternoon and night, — Forenoon, And afternoon, and night,— Forenoon, and — what! The empty song repeats itself. No more ? Yea, that is Life : make this forenoon sublime, This afternoon a psalm, this night a prayer, And Time is conquered, and thy crown is won.
Page 33 - Has Time grown sleepy at his post, And let the exiled Summer back, Or is it her regretful ghost, Or witchcraft of the almanac ? While wandering breaths of mignonette In at the open window come, I send my thoughts afar, and let Them paint your Christmas Day at home.
Page 16 - World, wise old world, What may man do for thee ? Thou that art greater than all of us, What wilt thou do to me ? This glossy curve of the tall grass-spear — Can I make its lustrous green more clear ? This tapering shaft of oat, that knows To grow erect as the great pine grows, And to sway in the wind as well as he — Can I teach it to nod more graciously ? The lark on the mossy rail so nigh...
Page 20 - Life is a game the soul can play With fewer pieces than men say. Only to grow as the grass grows, Prating not of joys or woes; To burn as the steady hearth-fire burns ; To shine as the star can shine, Or only as the mote of dust that turns Darkling and twinkling in the beam of light divine...
Page 52 - Then swaggering half a hair's breadth, hungrily He seized upon an atom of bug, and fed. One was a tattered monad, called a poet; And with shrill voice ecstatic thus he sang: 'Oh, the little female monad's lips! Oh, the little female monad's eyes: Ah. the little, little, female, female monad!
Page 61 - T is not in endless striving, Thy quest is found : Be still and listen ; Be still and drink the quiet Of all around. Not for thy crying, Not for thy loud beseeching, Will peace draw near : Rest with palms folded ; Rest with thine eyelids fallen — Lo ! peace is here.
Page 44 - A prince's banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — !" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field.
Page 64 - These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung? "Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all; But for our blunders — oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. "Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will; but Thou,...
Page 45 - And peace with perfect rest its bosom fills. There the pure mist, the pity of the sea, Comes as a white, soft hand, and reaches o'er And touches its still face most tenderly. Unstirred and calm, amid our shifting years, Lo ! where it lies, far from the clash and roar, With quiet distance blurred, as if thro