And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which 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... The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 84by James Russell Lowell - 1897 - 515 pagesFull view - About this book
| Fashion - 740 pages
...peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Than teaches! me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look Into the page of its unwritten book. 76 THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I suppose that very few casual readers... | |
| Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...AVhen birds and flowers and 1 were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, \\ In ii thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou tcachest me...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look Into the page of its unwritten book. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I suppose that very few casual readers... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...all joy, and all truth, and all knowledge, and all glory. THE GHOST-SEER. BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Ye who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should arise, Cold and white, to freeze your eyes, Some weak phantom, which your doubt Shapes upon the dark without From... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...LOWELL. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, 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, arid could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...gold, so common art! Thou teuchest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart. Since each relied* in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but |iay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of Gou's... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...the left nor right, Lest a spirit should arise, Cold and white, to freeze your eyes, Some weak phantom, which your doubt Shapes upon the dark without From... | |
| H. C. Foster - English poetry - 1853 - 378 pages
...28 How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. THE LAW OF MERCY. 'Tis written with the pen of heavenly Love On every heart which... | |
| Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...cars, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou tcachest me...Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's nndoubting wisdom look 76 THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I suppose that very few casual readers of the... | |
| Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1853 - 410 pages
...human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of Heaven, and could some wondrous teaching show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book." This flower is very abundant, growing to the height of two or sometimes three feet, on the 134 HAWKWEED... | |
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