PoemsHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 315 páginas |
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... and mourn alone ? And why , when mirth unseals all tongues , Should mine alone be dumb ? Ah ! late I spoke to silent throngs , And now their hour is come . 78 FORBEARANCE.- THE PARK . FORBEARANCE . HAST thou named COMPENSATION . 77.
... and mourn alone ? And why , when mirth unseals all tongues , Should mine alone be dumb ? Ah ! late I spoke to silent throngs , And now their hour is come . 78 FORBEARANCE.- THE PARK . FORBEARANCE . HAST thou named COMPENSATION . 77.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 78 FORBEARANCE.- THE PARK . FORBEARANCE . HAST thou named all the birds without a gun ? Loved the wood - rose , and left it on its stalk ? At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse ? Unarmed , faced danger with a ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 78 FORBEARANCE.- THE PARK . FORBEARANCE . HAST thou named all the birds without a gun ? Loved the wood - rose , and left it on its stalk ? At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse ? Unarmed , faced danger with a ...
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... hast . All that's good and great with thee Works in close conspiracy ; Thou hast bribed the dark and lonely To report thy features only , And the cold and purple morning Itself with thoughts of thee adorning ; The leafy dell , the city ...
... hast . All that's good and great with thee Works in close conspiracy ; Thou hast bribed the dark and lonely To report thy features only , And the cold and purple morning Itself with thoughts of thee adorning ; The leafy dell , the city ...
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... Hast thou forgot me in a new delight ? I hearken for thy household cheer , O eloquent child ! Whose voice , an equal messenger , Conveyed thy meaning mild . What though the pains and joys Whereof it spoke were toys Fitting his age and ...
... Hast thou forgot me in a new delight ? I hearken for thy household cheer , O eloquent child ! Whose voice , an equal messenger , Conveyed thy meaning mild . What though the pains and joys Whereof it spoke were toys Fitting his age and ...
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... hast left . O truth's and nature's costly lie ! O trusted broken prophecy ! O richest fortune sourly crossed ! . Born for the future , to the future lost ! The deep Heart answered , ' Weepest thou ? Worthier cause for passion wild If I ...
... hast left . O truth's and nature's costly lie ! O trusted broken prophecy ! O richest fortune sourly crossed ! . Born for the future , to the future lost ! The deep Heart answered , ' Weepest thou ? Worthier cause for passion wild If I ...
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Página 180 - Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows new and old!
Página 15 - violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird ; — Beauty through my senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole, THE PROBLEM. I
Página 177 - To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound! Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags,
Página 106 - is figured in the flowers ; Was never secret history But birds tell it in the bowers. One harvest from thy field Homeward brought the oxen strong; A second crop thine acres yield, Which I gather in a song. MERLIN. I. THY trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear ; Its chords
Página 242 - POWER. CAST the bantling on the rocks, Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat, Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and speed be hands and feet. CLIMACTERIC. I AM not wiser for my age, Nor skilful by my grief; Life loiters at the book's first page,— Ah! could we turn the leaf.
Página 14 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home ; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid,
Página 232 - rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky, And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye: But, to his native centre fast, Shall into Future fuse the Past, And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast.
Página 232 - A RUDDY drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs, The world uncertain comes and goes; The lover rooted stays. I fancied he was fled, — And, after many a year, Glowed unexhausted kindliness, Like daily sunrise there. My careful heart was free again,
Página 38 - I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet