 | 1918 - 424 pages
...a sweet half -sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. 390 In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They made his careless words their law.... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 308 pages
...gone, And e'en his memory dim, Earth seemed more sweet to live upon, More full of love because of him. And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till after-poets only knew Their first-born brother as a god. (LOWELL: The Shepherd of King Admetus) THE... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1921 - 718 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1921 - 720 pages
...And e 'en his memory dim, Earth seemed more sweet to live upon, More full of love, because of him. And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till after-poets only knew Their first-born brother as a god. 374 Sir William S. Gilbert (1837-1911), an... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1922 - 186 pages
...his singing not too bad To hear between the cups of wine : And so, well pleased with being soothed His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In bis seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet,... | |
 | Florence Arzelia Armstrong - 1922 - 492 pages
...gone And e'en his memory dim, Earth seemed more sweet to live upon, More full of love, because of him. "And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till after-poets only knew Their first-born brother as a god." The last stanza of Shelley's Hymn of Apollo... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 668 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, • That what in other mouths were rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they... | |
 | John Harrie Beveridge, Belle M. Ryan, William Dodge Lewis - 1926 - 474 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
 | Bliss Carman - 1927 - 714 pages
...a sweet half-sleep, Three times his kingly beard he smoothed, And made him viceroy o'er his sheep. His words were simple words enough, And yet he used...other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They... | |
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His words were simple words enough, And yet he used them so, That what in other mouths was rough In his seemed musical and low. 
