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... thou art here , sweet Boy , among The crowds that come this world to throng ! The loveliest dream of waking life ! Hope of the bosom's secret strife ! Emblem of all the heart can love ! Vision of all that's bright above ! Pledge ...
... thou art here , sweet Boy , among The crowds that come this world to throng ! The loveliest dream of waking life ! Hope of the bosom's secret strife ! Emblem of all the heart can love ! Vision of all that's bright above ! Pledge ...
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... thou shalt weep , Such is thy destiny and doom , O'er this long past and long to come ; Earth's mockery , guilt , and nameless wo ; The pangs which thou can'st only know ; All crowded in a little span , The being of the creature Man ...
... thou shalt weep , Such is thy destiny and doom , O'er this long past and long to come ; Earth's mockery , guilt , and nameless wo ; The pangs which thou can'st only know ; All crowded in a little span , The being of the creature Man ...
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... Thou reckest not sweet slumberer , there , Of this world's crimes ; of many a snare To catch the soul ; of pleasures wild , Friends false - foes dark - and hearts beguiled ; Of Passion's ministers who sway With iron sceptre , all who ...
... Thou reckest not sweet slumberer , there , Of this world's crimes ; of many a snare To catch the soul ; of pleasures wild , Friends false - foes dark - and hearts beguiled ; Of Passion's ministers who sway With iron sceptre , all who ...
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... thou shalt weep As he has wept who eyes thy sleep , But weeps no more - his heart is cold , Warped , sickened , seared , with woes untold . And be it so ! the clouds which roll Dark , heavy o'er my troubled soul , Bring with them ...
... thou shalt weep As he has wept who eyes thy sleep , But weeps no more - his heart is cold , Warped , sickened , seared , with woes untold . And be it so ! the clouds which roll Dark , heavy o'er my troubled soul , Bring with them ...
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... thou art pained with the World's noisy stir Or crazed with its mad tumults , and weighed down With any of the ills of human life ; If thou art sick and weak , or mournest at the loss Of brethren gone to that far - distant land To which ...
... thou art pained with the World's noisy stir Or crazed with its mad tumults , and weighed down With any of the ills of human life ; If thou art sick and weak , or mournest at the loss Of brethren gone to that far - distant land To which ...
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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.