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... roll Dark , heavy o'er my troubled soul , Bring with them lightnings which illume , To shroud the mind in deeper gloom ! But no ! dear boy , my earnest prayer Shall call on heaven to bless thee here ! Long may'st thou live to love thy ...
... roll Dark , heavy o'er my troubled soul , Bring with them lightnings which illume , To shroud the mind in deeper gloom ! But no ! dear boy , my earnest prayer Shall call on heaven to bless thee here ! Long may'st thou live to love thy ...
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... roll ; The music of the many spheres- ' Tis sounding through the soul ! The Vast ! the Beautiful ! —in mystery , Deep in the soul's abyss unseen they lie . Sea - heavens - ye settled hills that lift Your brows into the blue , Like ...
... roll ; The music of the many spheres- ' Tis sounding through the soul ! The Vast ! the Beautiful ! —in mystery , Deep in the soul's abyss unseen they lie . Sea - heavens - ye settled hills that lift Your brows into the blue , Like ...
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... rolls , Yet tyranny and age and toil , Cannot subdue their souls . Their life's short , stormy day Is waning to its close , And the soul's frail covering of cl ay Seeks for its long repose . Though like the rocks in their giddy height ...
... rolls , Yet tyranny and age and toil , Cannot subdue their souls . Their life's short , stormy day Is waning to its close , And the soul's frail covering of cl ay Seeks for its long repose . Though like the rocks in their giddy height ...
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... rolling orbs , And wrought the silent harmony that breathes Thro ' nature's ' vast profound . ' But Paul must raise The voice of an interpreter , and , taught By high communing with his God , declare The TEKEL of their finger - written ...
... rolling orbs , And wrought the silent harmony that breathes Thro ' nature's ' vast profound . ' But Paul must raise The voice of an interpreter , and , taught By high communing with his God , declare The TEKEL of their finger - written ...
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... roll Their deadening influence o'er the weary soul . They still the pulse of care and strife , That wasteful spend the lamp of life , The haunts of men forgotten seem , The far off shores are as some faded dream . Not always thus , thou ...
... roll Their deadening influence o'er the weary soul . They still the pulse of care and strife , That wasteful spend the lamp of life , The haunts of men forgotten seem , The far off shores are as some faded dream . Not always thus , thou ...
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Page 141 - When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight...
Page 30 - I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, TTiere stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead.
Page 141 - Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life! They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with...
Page 143 - And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing...
Page 22 - Amid the lowly dog-wood's snowy flowers, And the blue Jay flits by, from tree to tree ; And spreading its rich pinions, fills the ear With its shrill-sounding and unsteady cry. With...
Page 2 - ... way, Blue skies, and silver clouds, and gentle winds, — The swelling upland, where the sidelong sun Aslant the wooded slope, at evening, goes, — Groves, through whose broken roof the sky looks in, Mountain, and shattered cliff, and sunny vale, The distant lake, fountains, and mighty trees, In many a lazy syllable, repeating Their old poetic legends to the wind.
Page 24 - Gray watcher of the waters ! Thou art king Of the blue lake ; and all the winged kind Do fear the echo of thine angry cry. How bright thy savage eye ! Thou lookest down, And seest the shining fishes as they glide ; And poising thy gray wing, thy glossy beak Swift as an arrow strikes its roving prey.
Page 123 - No, sister is not cold, my child ; For God, who saw her die, As he looked down from heaven and smiled, Recalled her to the sky. And then her spirit quickly fled To God, by whom 'twas given ; Her body in the ground is dead, But sister lives in heaven.
Page 32 - Down the broad valley, fast and far, The troubled army fled ; Up rose the glorious morning star, The ghastly host was dead. I have read, in the marvellous heart of man, That strange and mystic scroll, That an army of phantoms, vast and wan, Beleaguer the human soul. Encamped beside Life's rushing stream, In Fancy's misty light, Gigantic shapes and shadows gleam Portentous through the night. Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And, with a sorrowful, deep sound, Flows the River...
Page 21 - WELL do I love those various harmonies That ring so gayly in spring's budding woods, And in the thickets, and green, quiet haunts, And lonely copses of the summer-time, And in red autumn's ancient solitudes.