If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. The home wreath, and other poems - Page 9by Harriet Nokes - 1857 - 131 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Keese - 1840 - 300 pages
...wouldst forget — If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — no tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. THE PEBBLE AND THE ACOEN. BY HF GOULD. " I AM a Pebble ! and yield to none !" Were the swelling words... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1841 - 418 pages
...— If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleepCD to the woods and hills ! — no tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. Lines on passing the Grave of my Sister.MICAH P. FLINT. ON yonder shore, on yonder shore, Now verdant... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. THE SPIRIT OF POETRY. THERE is a quiet spirit in these woods, That dwells where'er the gentle south... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...— If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep, 25 Go to the woods and hills ! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. LESSON X. THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. E. COOPER. [This, and the two following pieces, are marked as exercises... | |
| Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - 1845 - 320 pages
...wouldst forget — If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep The heart from fainting, and the soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — no tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears." Yet there are moods of the soul, that even the ministering tenderness of Nature cannot brighten. There... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...wouldst forget, — If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — no tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. LESSON XLIV. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION. —gas, mass, close, griefs, lamps, mouths, verse, dupes, scene,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 456 pages
...wouldst forget — If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep — Go to the woods and hills ! — no tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. Lines on passing the Grave of my Sister.MICAH P. FLINT. ON yonder shore, on yonder shore, Now verdant... | |
| 1848 - 276 pages
...wouldst forget,— If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills !—no tears Dim the sweet look that nature wears. AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN. BY WASHINGTON ALLSTON. ALL hail! thou noble land, Our fathers' native soil!... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — N"o tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. THE SPIRIT OF POETRY. THE HE is a quiet spirit in these woods, That dwells where'er the gentle south... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pages
...would'st forget, • If thou would'st read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! No tears Dim the sweet look that nature wears." Bat certainly I was filled with a strong, irresistible desire for solitude among the hills. I felt... | |
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