Poetic Pearls: With Notes and IllustrationsRichard Rhodes Rhodes & McClure, 1887 - 407 pages |
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... Gold " .110 " As a Reed with the Reeds of the River " .132 Bingen on the Rhine .148 Musical Cherub Soar Singing Away . 164 Minnehaha Falls . " And the Cataract Leaps in Glory " .176 Mother Come Back from the Echoless Shore . 184 Prairie ...
... Gold " .110 " As a Reed with the Reeds of the River " .132 Bingen on the Rhine .148 Musical Cherub Soar Singing Away . 164 Minnehaha Falls . " And the Cataract Leaps in Glory " .176 Mother Come Back from the Echoless Shore . 184 Prairie ...
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... Gold . Time went by in a sheepish way Upon Thessaly's plains of yore . In the nineteenth century lambs at play Mean mutton , and nothing more . Our swains at present are far too sage To live as one lived of old : So they couple the ...
... Gold . Time went by in a sheepish way Upon Thessaly's plains of yore . In the nineteenth century lambs at play Mean mutton , and nothing more . Our swains at present are far too sage To live as one lived of old : So they couple the ...
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... Gold . Dwellers in huts and in marble hall From shepherdess up to queen- Cared little for bonnets , and less for shawl , And nothing for crinoline . But now simplicity's not the rage , And it's funny to think how cold The dress they ...
... Gold . Dwellers in huts and in marble hall From shepherdess up to queen- Cared little for bonnets , and less for shawl , And nothing for crinoline . But now simplicity's not the rage , And it's funny to think how cold The dress they ...
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... gold . And if , through patient toil , we reach the land Where tired feet , with sandals loose , may rest , When we shall clearly know and understand- I think that we will say , " God knew the best ! " REST . [ The following lines were ...
... gold . And if , through patient toil , we reach the land Where tired feet , with sandals loose , may rest , When we shall clearly know and understand- I think that we will say , " God knew the best ! " REST . [ The following lines were ...
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... gold , the Blue ; Mellowed with gold , the Gray . So , when the summer calleth , On forest and field of grain , With an equal murmur falleth The cooling drip of the rain ; - Under the sod and the dew , Waiting the Judgment day ; — Wet ...
... gold , the Blue ; Mellowed with gold , the Gray . So , when the summer calleth , On forest and field of grain , With an equal murmur falleth The cooling drip of the rain ; - Under the sod and the dew , Waiting the Judgment day ; — Wet ...
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Absalom angels beauty Bingen blessed bliss bloom blue bosom breast breath bright brow Christmas clouds dark dead dear death deep doth dream dying earth EDWARD COATE PINKNEY ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN eternal eyes fade fair feel flowers forever gate gleam glory golden grave gray green hands happy hath hear heart heaven hills Homeless hearts hour Judgment day king kiss life's light lips live lonely look LORD BYRON MINNEHAHA FALLS morning mother N. P. WILLIS never night o'er ocean peace praise prayer PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR rest Rhine river rose Santa Claus scorn shade shining shore sigh silent sing skies sleep smile soft solemn song sorrow soul stars sweet tears thee thine thou thought thundering bands toil tone trembling Twas voice waves weary weep wild wind wings YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 255 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 94 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 256 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 255 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 29 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied. That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, — How...
Page 135 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 347 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 257 - So shalt thou rest; and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure! All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 269 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 293 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...