 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, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting...  American Literature - Page 276by Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 pages
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEEE. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left or right, Lest a spirit should... | |
 | 1899 - 260 pages
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. The Dandelion WITH locks of gold to-day ; To-morrow, silver gray ; Then blossom-bald.... | |
 | 1899 - 312 pages
...from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. blithe' some (sum), cheery. pI' 6 tf , devotion. El' D6 ra' do, exceeding richness. pr6d' I gal, a... | |
 | 1899 - 312 pages
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. blithe' some (sum), cheery. pi' 6 tj?, devotion. El' D6 ra' d6, exceeding richness. pr6d' I gal, a... | |
 | Estelle Hayden - 1899 - 270 pages
...with their sweet power to soothe and satisfy, and he becomes a willing pupil of the dandelion: (123) "Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human...with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these loving pages of God's book." This is one of the few instances where Lowell speaks of nature as a divine... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis, Lewis, Edwin Hebert - 1899 - 442 pages
...could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. 45 How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam 50 Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1899 - 116 pages
...could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. VI. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art I Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1899 - 440 pages
...could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. 45 How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common ^rt! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1900 - 166 pages
...which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. The Shepherd of King Admetus 'T^HERE came a youth upon the earth, Some thousand years ago, Whose slender... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1900 - 512 pages
...bitterest ache, And ope Heaven's portals, which are near us still, Yea, nearer ever than the gates of 111. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubtiug wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. But let me read thy lesson right or... | |
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