The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Minor Poems[The] MacMillan Company, 1918 - 248 Seiten |
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... cloud , that floats in the ether above me , Seems like a hand that is pointing and beckoning over the ocean . There is another hand , that is not so spectral and ghost- like , Holding me , drawing me back , and clasping mine for ...
... cloud , that floats in the ether above me , Seems like a hand that is pointing and beckoning over the ocean . There is another hand , that is not so spectral and ghost- like , Holding me , drawing me back , and clasping mine for ...
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... cloud of smoke , and out of the cloud came the lightning , Out of the lightning thunder ; and death unseen ran before it . Frightened the savages fled for shelter in swamp and in thicket , 805 Hotly pursued and beset ; but their sachem ...
... cloud of smoke , and out of the cloud came the lightning , Out of the lightning thunder ; and death unseen ran before it . Frightened the savages fled for shelter in swamp and in thicket , 805 Hotly pursued and beset ; but their sachem ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. IX THE WEDDING - DAY FORTH from the curtain of clouds , from the tent of purple and scarlet , Issued the sun , the great High - Priest , in his garment : resplendent , ° Holiness unto the Lord , in letters of ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. IX THE WEDDING - DAY FORTH from the curtain of clouds , from the tent of purple and scarlet , Issued the sun , the great High - Priest , in his garment : resplendent , ° Holiness unto the Lord , in letters of ...
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... cloud Grows for a moment thin , and betrays the sun by its brightness . Once it had lifted its hand , and moved its lips , but was silent , As if an iron will had mastered the fleeting inten tion . 955 But when were ended the troth and ...
... cloud Grows for a moment thin , and betrays the sun by its brightness . Once it had lifted its hand , and moved its lips , but was silent , As if an iron will had mastered the fleeting inten tion . 955 But when were ended the troth and ...
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... clouds went by , Like ships upon the sea ; Dreams that the soul of youth engage Ere Fancy has been quelled ; Old legends of the monkish page , Traditions of the saint and sage , Tales that have the rime of age , And chronicles of Eld ...
... clouds went by , Like ships upon the sea ; Dreams that the soul of youth engage Ere Fancy has been quelled ; Old legends of the monkish page , Traditions of the saint and sage , Tales that have the rime of age , And chronicles of Eld ...
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angels armor ballad beautiful behold BELFRY OF BRUGES breath Cæsar Captain of Plymouth clouds Courtship of Miles dark dead death dreams Edited Elizabeth Appleton England English Epimetheus Euroclydon eyes feel fire Flanders flowers forest forever Forever never friendship Gerfalcon Gleamed golden grave hand Hawthorne's heard heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Indian John Alden Julius Cæsar King Knickerbocker Magazine land laugh leaves legend light living Longfellow look Lord loud maiden Mayflower meadow Miles Standish mist night Norsemen Numbers o'er ocean Pecksuot Pilgrims Plymouth poem poet poet's prayer Priscilla Psalm Puritan rain river sail Saint Sandalphon shadows Shakespeare's ship silent singing SKELETON IN ARMOR sleep smile snow soft song soul sound spake Spanish speak stars stood strong sweet thee Thereupon answered thou thought translation unto Victor Galbraith village voice walls wave wild wind woods words youth
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Seite 97 - Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door...
Seite 68 - TELL me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! ; And the grave is not its goal; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Seite 143 - We know what Master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Seite 155 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.
Seite 72 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Seite 94 - Last night, the moon had a golden ring. And to-night no moon we see !" The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Seite 75 - Flowers ; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things.
Seite 121 - I saw her bright reflection In the waters under me, Like a golden goblet falling And sinking into the sea. And far in the hazy distance Of that lovely night in June, The blaze of the flaming furnace Gleamed redder than the moon.
Seite 142 - ... gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms...
Seite 190 - A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.' I remember the gleams and glooms that dart Across the school-boy's brain; The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain. And the voice of that fitful song 60 Sings on, and is never still: 'A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.