Kansas in Literature, Parts 1-2Crane, 1900 |
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... heart below , And the land he came to till With a freeman's thews and will , And his poor hut roofed with snow ! One more look of that dead face , Of his murder's ghastly trace ! One more kiss , O widowed one ! Lay your left hands on ...
... heart below , And the land he came to till With a freeman's thews and will , And his poor hut roofed with snow ! One more look of that dead face , Of his murder's ghastly trace ! One more kiss , O widowed one ! Lay your left hands on ...
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... prize of $ 50 , offered in 1855 by the New England Emi grant Aid Company for the best song in aid of the Kansas movement . This poem took the prize . Faithful hearts , holy prayers , Keep from taint the KANSAS IN LITERATURE 31.
... prize of $ 50 , offered in 1855 by the New England Emi grant Aid Company for the best song in aid of the Kansas movement . This poem took the prize . Faithful hearts , holy prayers , Keep from taint the KANSAS IN LITERATURE 31.
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William Herbert Carruth. Faithful hearts , holy prayers , Keep from taint the air ; Soil a mother's tears have wet ... heart And the strong right hand ! Feed the spark the Pilgrims struck On old Plymouth Rock ! To the watch - fires of ...
William Herbert Carruth. Faithful hearts , holy prayers , Keep from taint the air ; Soil a mother's tears have wet ... heart And the strong right hand ! Feed the spark the Pilgrims struck On old Plymouth Rock ! To the watch - fires of ...
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... hearts of the valleys , the views of the hills , And sacred my home o'er the far - away sea ; Yet dearer than all is dear Kansas to me . O she draws me and awes me with truth and with light , As a Poet is drawn by the stars of the night ...
... hearts of the valleys , the views of the hills , And sacred my home o'er the far - away sea ; Yet dearer than all is dear Kansas to me . O she draws me and awes me with truth and with light , As a Poet is drawn by the stars of the night ...
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... heart of the wooer is warm , but warmer the heart of the wooing ; And up from the pits where these shiver , and up from the heights where those shine , Twin voices and shadows swim starward , and the essence of life is divine . -Richard ...
... heart of the wooer is warm , but warmer the heart of the wooing ; And up from the pits where these shiver , and up from the heights where those shine , Twin voices and shadows swim starward , and the essence of life is divine . -Richard ...
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Page 28 - WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free...
Page 39 - Back of the canvas that throbs the painter is hinted and hidden; Into the statue that breathes the soul of the sculptor is bidden ; Under the joy that is felt lie the infinite issues of feeling; Crowning the glory revealed is the glory that crowns the revealing. Great are the symbols of being, but that which is...
Page 83 - EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE A fire-mist and a planet, — A crystal and a cell, — A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell ; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod, — Some call it Evolution, And others call it God. A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields, And the wild geese sailing high, — And all over upland and lowland The charm of the goldenrod, — Some of us call it Autumn, And others call it God.
Page 83 - Like tides on a crescent sea-beach When the moon is new and thin, Into our hearts high yearnings Come welling and surging in, — Come from the mystic ocean, Whose rim no foot has trod, — Some of us call it Longing, And others call it God.
Page 84 - A picket frozen on duty, A mother starved for her brood, Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And millions, who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway plod — Some call it Consecration, And others call it God.
Page 62 - Master of human destinies am I, Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk : I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel, and mart, and palace — soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death : but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe ; Seek me in vain...
Page 29 - Upbearing, like the Ark of old, The Bible in our van, We go to test the truth of God Against the fraud of man.
Page 33 - A BLUSH as of roses Where rose never grew ! Great drops on the bunch-grass, But not of the dew ! A taint in the sweet air For wild bees to shun ! A stain that shall never Bleach out in the sun...
Page 34 - Strong man of the prairies, Mourn bitter and wild ! Wail, desolate woman ! Weep, fatherless child ! But the grain of God springs up From ashes beneath, And the crown of his harvest Is life out of death.
Page 43 - Like desolation on a shipwrecked shore. There is no little child within me now, To sing back to the thrushes, to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple bough Laughs into blossoms, or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet Dances in the glad dew. Alas ! alas ! The meaning of the daisies in the grass I have forgotten ; and if my cheeks are wet It is not with the blitheness of the child, But with the bitter sorrow of sad years.