 So: Affable live-oak, leaning low, — Thus — with your favor — soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the land!) Bending your beauty aside, with a step I stand On the firm-packed sand, Free By a world of marsh that...  Younger American Poets, 1830-1890 - Page 140edited by - 1891 - 666 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Parsons Lathrop - 1878 - 316 pages
...and a mark To the forest-dark : — So: Affable live-oak, bending low — Thus—with your favor — soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the land !) Swinging your beauty aside, with a step I stand On the firm-packed sand, Free By a world of marsh... | |
 | Herbert Milton Sylvester - 1887 - 304 pages
...ochre-stained sky has the semblance of a bar of gleaming sand. From behind the western mountains, — "Sinuous southward and sinuous northward the shimmering...Inward and outward, to northward and southward, the beach lines linger and curl, , As a silver wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm, sweet... | |
 | Merrill Edwards Gates - 1887 - 42 pages
...live-oaks, away from carking cares : » "So, Affable live-oak, leaning low — Thus, with your favor — soft, with a reverent hand, Not lightly touching your...with a step I stand On the firm-packed sand, Free." And the passionate purity of his forest thoughts is seen in such lines as these : " To loiter down... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1891 - 316 pages
...a mark To the forest-dark : — So: Affable live-oak, leaning low, — Thus — with your favor — soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching...Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach lines linger and curl As a silver-wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm sweet limbs... | |
 | Constance Fenimore Woolson - 1899 - 352 pages
...glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within • The wide sea-marshes of Glynn. .... Free By a world of marsh that borders a world of sea....northward and southward the beach-lines linger and carl As a silver-wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm, sweet limbs of a girl. A league... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 966 pages
...a mark To the forest-dark: — So: Affable live-oak, leaning low, — Thus — with your favor — ill Her annual secret keeps; A lady white within the...Prithee, my pretty housewives ! Who may expected Sinuous southward and sinuous northward the shimmering hand Of the sand-beach fastens the fringe of... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 pages
...a mark To the forest-dark: — So: Affable live-oak, leaning low, — Thus — with your favor — soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching your person, Lord of the land !) Bending ymir beauty aside, with a step I stand On the iirm-paekcd sand, Free By u world of marsh that borders... | |
 | William Lander Weber - 1901 - 292 pages
...mark To the forest-dark : — 40 So: Affable live-oak, leaning low, — Thus — with your favor — soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching...the fringe of the marsh to the folds of the land. 50 Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach-lines linger and curl As a silver-wrought... | |
 | William Lander Weber - 1903 - 286 pages
...mark To the forest-dark : — 40 So: Affable live-oak, leaning low, — Thus — with your favor — soft, with a reverent hand, (Not lightly touching...the fringe of the marsh to the folds of the land. 50 Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach-lines linger and curl As a silver-wrought... | |
 | 1915 - 414 pages
...Beyond His love and care." * An illustration from The Marshes of Glynn 5 may make the matter clearer. "Sinuous southward and sinuous northward the shimmering...Inward and outward to northward and southward the beach lines linger and curl As a silver-wrought garment that clings to and follows the firm sweet limbs... | |
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