The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2William Cullen Bryant "A comprehensive exhibit of poetic literature" -- Preface. A collection of English and American poetry on topics such as nature and childhood. |
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... Tears , idle tears , I know not what they meen , Sears from the depth of some divine despair hise in the heart & gather to the eyes In looking And thinking on the happy Autumn fields , the days that are no more . Anny ww POEMS OF ...
... Tears , idle tears , I know not what they meen , Sears from the depth of some divine despair hise in the heart & gather to the eyes In looking And thinking on the happy Autumn fields , the days that are no more . Anny ww POEMS OF ...
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... tears are ever banished , And smiles have no alloy ! Beside thy living waters All plants are , great and small , The cedar of the forest , The hyssop of the wall ; With jaspers glow thy bulwarks , Thy streets with emeralds blaze , The ...
... tears are ever banished , And smiles have no alloy ! Beside thy living waters All plants are , great and small , The cedar of the forest , The hyssop of the wall ; With jaspers glow thy bulwarks , Thy streets with emeralds blaze , The ...
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... tears may shower , Tender mother , fount of love ! Make my heart with love unceasing Burn toward Christ the Lord , that pleasing I may be to him above . Holy mother , this be granted , That the slain one's wounds be planted Firmly in my ...
... tears may shower , Tender mother , fount of love ! Make my heart with love unceasing Burn toward Christ the Lord , that pleasing I may be to him above . Holy mother , this be granted , That the slain one's wounds be planted Firmly in my ...
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... tears ; By thy days of sore distress In the savage wilderness ; By the dread mysterious hour Of the insulting tempter's power , Turn , O , turn a favoring eye , Hear our solemn litany ! -- By the sacred griefs that wept O'er the grave ...
... tears ; By thy days of sore distress In the savage wilderness ; By the dread mysterious hour Of the insulting tempter's power , Turn , O , turn a favoring eye , Hear our solemn litany ! -- By the sacred griefs that wept O'er the grave ...
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... tears , that bring no healing ; From wild and weak complaining ; Thine old strength revealing , Save , O , save ! From doubt , where all is double , Where wise men are not strong ; Where comfort turns to trouble ; Where just men suffer ...
... tears , that bring no healing ; From wild and weak complaining ; Thine old strength revealing , Save , O , save ! From doubt , where all is double , Where wise men are not strong ; Where comfort turns to trouble ; Where just men suffer ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON beauty bells beneath bird blessed blood blow blue brave breast breath bright brow clouds dark dead death deep doth dream earth eyes fair fear feet flowers gleam glory golden grace grave gray green hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hills hour Hudibras JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER King land Lars Porsena light living lone look Lord LORD BYRON lord of Ross loud mighty moon morning mountain murmur never night o'er ocean Paradise Lost peace PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY praise roar rocks rose round Samian wine SHAKESPEARE shine shore silent sing Sir Bedivere sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit spring stars steed stood storm stream summer sweet sword tears tell thee thine thou art thought toil tree voice wave weary wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind wings woods
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Page 563 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...
Page 501 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 725 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Page 717 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Page 404 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive...
Page 687 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 473 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 607 - Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee; Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?
Page 721 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this ; The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. " See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 629 - While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow. The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow.