Edith Vernon, Or, Contrasts of Character, Volumen2Hope & Company, 1855 |
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Página 55 - He spake of love, such love as Spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away — no strife to heal — The past unsighed for, and the future sure...
Página 213 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing-, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 6 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 74 - How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea ; For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee. And, as I watch the line of light, that plays Along the smooth wave tow'rd the burning west, I long to tread that golden path of rays, And think 'twould lead to some bright isle of rest.
Página 171 - To borrow once again from the poet, who so correctly and beautifully describes living manners, — Something there was, — what, none presumed to say, — Clouds lightly passing on a summer's day ; Whispers and hints, which went from ear to ear, And mixed reports no judge on earth could clear.
Página 115 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Página 78 - With phantom honours at her side. What empty shadows glimmer nigh ! They once were friendship, truth, and love ! Oh, die to thought, to memory die, Since lifeless to my heart ye prove...
Página 164 - The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.
Página 170 - Twas even thine, beloved woman mild ! So for the Mother's sake the Child was dear, And dearer was the Mother for the Child.
Página 126 - ... them to perpetual, painful, and sometimes unsuccessful struggles against obstinate and deep-rooted habit. These need no persuasion ; but well might the young be persuaded by them to look early to the garden committed to their keeping. COUSIN MABEL. He who glides smoothly o'er life's waveless sea, Nor feels the chilling blast of misery, Looks on the victim by the whirlwind toss'd, And marvels how his peace was wreck'd or lost. BIBD. THERE is a proverbial saying of some antiquity, and not wanting...