| 740 pages
...peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Than teaches! me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...undoubting wisdom look Into the page of its unwritten book. 76 THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I suppose that very few casual readers of the New York Herald of August... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 358 pages
...LOWELL. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, arid could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...gold, so common art! Thou teuchest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart. Since each relied* in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but |iay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of Gou's... | |
| 1867 - 744 pages
...untainted cars, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou tcachest...Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's nndoubting wisdom look 76 THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I suppose that very few casual readers of the... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not... | |
| H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...28 How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. THE LAW OF MERCY. 'Tis written with... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1853 - 414 pages
..." How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart. Since...its scanty gleam Of Heaven, and could some wondrous teaching show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1853 - 410 pages
...human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of Heaven, and could some wondrous teaching show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book." This flower is very abundant, growing to the height of two... | |
| 1854 - 362 pages
...peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. Barry Cornwall. DRETTY firstling of the year ! Herald of the... | |
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