Poetry in Song, and Some Other Studies in Literature with a Few Pieces of Verse |
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... happy is the nation that knows its own great men . " There ought to be nothing in the life of a man who tells a noble truth to make one question the sincerity of his utterances or wonder that such beauty in the thought should fail to ...
... happy is the nation that knows its own great men . " There ought to be nothing in the life of a man who tells a noble truth to make one question the sincerity of his utterances or wonder that such beauty in the thought should fail to ...
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... happy , though battling with the dread consumption . To his wife he wrote : " Were it not for some circumstances which make such a proposition seem absurd in the highest degree , I would think that I am shortly to die and that my spirit ...
... happy , though battling with the dread consumption . To his wife he wrote : " Were it not for some circumstances which make such a proposition seem absurd in the highest degree , I would think that I am shortly to die and that my spirit ...
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... happy for no other reason than that he thinks he is happy is genuine ? Nowadays , we are afraid to let the mind soar . We laugh at the poets and call them dreamers . Poets are not only free , but they make others free . The ancient ...
... happy for no other reason than that he thinks he is happy is genuine ? Nowadays , we are afraid to let the mind soar . We laugh at the poets and call them dreamers . Poets are not only free , but they make others free . The ancient ...
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... happy , - " O happy love ! where love like this is found ! O heart - felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! " There is an intensity , a kind of suppressed emotion about the poem's pictures which makes it very forceful . It breathes an ...
... happy , - " O happy love ! where love like this is found ! O heart - felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! " There is an intensity , a kind of suppressed emotion about the poem's pictures which makes it very forceful . It breathes an ...
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... happy love utters itself . " Speaking of the songs that have won the hearts of the Scotsman , none has contributed more to that end than " My Heart's in the Highland , My Heart Is Not Here . " To those who have wandered away from the ...
... happy love utters itself . " Speaking of the songs that have won the hearts of the Scotsman , none has contributed more to that end than " My Heart's in the Highland , My Heart Is Not Here . " To those who have wandered away from the ...
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Page 81 - THE fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle — Why not I with thine?
Page 149 - When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
Page 71 - Will break as a bubble o'er-blown in a dream,— Yon dome of too-tenuous tissues of space and of night, Over-weighted with stars, over-freighted with light, Over-sated with beauty and silence, will seem But a bubble that broke in a dream, If a bound of degree to this grace be laid, Or a sound or a motion made.
Page 29 - Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Page 34 - Wi" thee to reign, wi' thee to reign, The brightest jewel in my crown Wad be my queen, wad be my queen.
Page 98 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Page 80 - Oh lift me from the grass ! I die, I faint, I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas ! My heart beats loud and fast: Oh ! press it close to thine again, Where it will break at last.
Page 29 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Page 100 - And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young heart above its mortal lair, And love and life contend in it for what Shall be its earthly doom, the dead live there, And move like winds of light on dark and stormy air.
Page 89 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.