Poems ...Ticknor & Fields, 1854 |
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... arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms . Ah ! what a sound will rise , how wild and dreary , When the death - angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere ...
... arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms . Ah ! what a sound will rise , how wild and dreary , When the death - angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere ...
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... arm , the lion's hide Scattered across the midnight air The golden radiance of its hair . The moon was pallid , but not faint And beautiful as some fair saint , Serenely moving on her way In hours of trial and dismay . As if she heard ...
... arm , the lion's hide Scattered across the midnight air The golden radiance of its hair . The moon was pallid , but not faint And beautiful as some fair saint , Serenely moving on her way In hours of trial and dismay . As if she heard ...
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... arm Down fell the red skin of the lion Into the river at his feet . His mighty club no longer beat The forehead of the bull ; but he Reeled as of yore beside the sea , When , blinded by Enopion , He sought the blacksmith at his forge ...
... arm Down fell the red skin of the lion Into the river at his feet . His mighty club no longer beat The forehead of the bull ; but he Reeled as of yore beside the sea , When , blinded by Enopion , He sought the blacksmith at his forge ...
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... arm - chair Laughed in the flickering light , and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame , as shields of armies the sunshine . Fragments of song the old man sang , and carols of Christmas , Such as at home , in ...
... arm - chair Laughed in the flickering light , and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame , as shields of armies the sunshine . Fragments of song the old man sang , and carols of Christmas , Such as at home , in ...
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... Arms have been taken from us , and warlike weapons of all kinds ; Nothing is left but the blacksmith's sledge and the scythe of the mower . " Then with a pleasant smile made answer the jovial farmer : - " Safer are we unarmed , in the ...
... Arms have been taken from us , and warlike weapons of all kinds ; Nothing is left but the blacksmith's sledge and the scythe of the mower . " Then with a pleasant smile made answer the jovial farmer : - " Safer are we unarmed , in the ...
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Acadian Albrecht Dürer aloft art thou Balder Basil the blacksmith Béarn beautiful behold belfry BELFRY OF BRUGES bell beneath birds blossom breath bride Bruges burning Christmas carols cloud cried dark dead descended door Evangeline Evangeline's eyes face fair farmer Father fire Ever higher fireside forest Forever never Gabriel Gascon gaze Ghent gleam golden Grand-Pré Guy de Dampierre hand hear heard heart heaven higher Sing JULIUS MOSEN labor land laugh light lips loud maiden meadows Minnesingers morning Never forever Nuremberg o'er ocean odor Ozark Mountains passed prairies prayer priest rain rise river rose round sail Saint sang seemed shadow ships shore silent slowly smile song sorrow soul sound spake stands stars stood sunshine sweet Tharaw thee thou thought tide toil unto village voice wander wave weary whispered wild wind words youth
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Page 329 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 326 - Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms!
Page 98 - All are scattered, now, and fled, — Some are married, some are dead; And when I ask, with throbs of pain, "Ah! when shall they all meet again?" As in the days long since gone by, The ancient timepiece makes reply, — "Forever — never! Never- forever!
Page 129 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Page 148 - Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows ; But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of the owners ; There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.
Page 319 - Hold the great ship against the bellowing blast! And at the bows an image stood, By a cunning artist carved in wood, With robes of white, that far behind Seemed to be fluttering in the wind. It was not shaped in a classic mould, Not like a Nymph or Goddess of old, Or Naiad rising from the water, But modelled from the Master's daughter!
Page 315 - Far exceedeth all the rest ! Thus with the rising of the sun Was the noble task begun, And soon throughout the ship-yard's bounds Were heard the intermingled sounds Of axes and of mallets, plied With vigorous arms on every side ; Plied so deftly and so well, That, ere the shadows of evening fell, The keel of oak for a noble ship, Scarfed and bolted, straight and strong, Was lying ready, and stretched along The blocks, well placed upon the slip. Happy, thrice happy, every one Who sees...
Page 75 - 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.
Page 302 - Kind messages that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, in which we feel the pressure of a hand, — One touch of fire, — and all the rest is mystery! The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!
Page 320 - Is swung into its place ; Shrouds and stays Holding it firm and fast ! Long ago, In the deer-haunted forests of Maine, When upon mountain and plain Lay the snow, They fell, — those lordly pines ! Those grand, majestic pines ! 'Mid shouts and cheers The jaded steers, Panting beneath the goad, Dragged down the weary, winding road Those captive kings so straight and tall. To be shorn of their streaming hair, And, naked and bare, To feel the stress and che strain Of the wind and the reeling main, Whose...