The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowGeorge Routledge & Company, 1856 - 400 pages |
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... blossoms wear . " And the mother gave , in tears and pain , The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above . O , not in cruelty , not in wrath , The Reaper came that day ; ' Twas an ...
... blossoms wear . " And the mother gave , in tears and pain , The flowers she most did love ; She knew she should find them all again In the fields of light above . O , not in cruelty , not in wrath , The Reaper came that day ; ' Twas an ...
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... Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day , Tremulous leaves , with soft and silver lining , Buds that open only to decay ; Brilliant hopes , all woven in gorgeous tissues , Flaunting gayly in the golden light ; Large desires , with most ...
... Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day , Tremulous leaves , with soft and silver lining , Buds that open only to decay ; Brilliant hopes , all woven in gorgeous tissues , Flaunting gayly in the golden light ; Large desires , with most ...
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... blossoms Into the Silent Land ! O Land ! O Land ! For all the broken - hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted , Beckons , and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great Departed ...
... blossoms Into the Silent Land ! O Land ! O Land ! For all the broken - hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted , Beckons , and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great Departed ...
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... blossom one by one ; -no long and lingering autumn , pompous with many - colored leaves and the glow of Indian summers . But winter and summer are wonderful , and pass into each other . The quail has hardly ceased piping in the corn ...
... blossom one by one ; -no long and lingering autumn , pompous with many - colored leaves and the glow of Indian summers . But winter and summer are wonderful , and pass into each other . The quail has hardly ceased piping in the corn ...
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... blossoms and the song of nightingales , is come ! Saint John has taken the flowers and festival of heathen Balder ; and in every village there is a May - pole fifty feet high , with wreaths and roses and ribands streaming in the wind ...
... blossoms and the song of nightingales , is come ! Saint John has taken the flowers and festival of heathen Balder ; and in every village there is a May - pole fifty feet high , with wreaths and roses and ribands streaming in the wind ...
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Page 110 - Last night, the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see ! " The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Page 112 - The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.
Page 209 - 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...
Page 153 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior!
Page 242 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 351 - Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Page 224 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 12 - I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.
Page 312 - Many a languid head, upraised as Evangeline entered, Turned on its pillow of pain to gaze while she passed, for her presence Fell on their hearts like a ray of the sun on the walls of a prison.
Page 12 - I have naught that is fair ?" saith he ; "Have naught but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves.