Poetry of the Woods: Passages from the Poets Descriptive of Forest Scenes, Etc., EtcE. H. Butler & Company, 1864 - 128 страници |
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... For wheresoe'er your murmuring tremors thrill The woody twilight , there man's heart hath still Confessed a spirit's breath , and heard a ceaseless hymn . 3 MRS . HEMANS . ( 17 ) FOLIAGE . COME forth and let us through our hearts TREES,
... For wheresoe'er your murmuring tremors thrill The woody twilight , there man's heart hath still Confessed a spirit's breath , and heard a ceaseless hymn . 3 MRS . HEMANS . ( 17 ) FOLIAGE . COME forth and let us through our hearts TREES,
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... breath , It is so like the gentle air of Spring , As , from the morning's dewy flowers , it comes Full of their fragrance , that it is a joy To have it round us , —and her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird , Heard in the ...
... breath , It is so like the gentle air of Spring , As , from the morning's dewy flowers , it comes Full of their fragrance , that it is a joy To have it round us , —and her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird , Heard in the ...
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... breath that swayed at once All their green tops , stole over him , and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless Power And inaccessible Majesty . Ah , why Should we in the world's riper years neglect God's ancient sanctuaries , and ...
... breath that swayed at once All their green tops , stole over him , and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless Power And inaccessible Majesty . Ah , why Should we in the world's riper years neglect God's ancient sanctuaries , and ...
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... breath , That , from the inmost darkness of the place , Comes , scarcely felt ; -the barky trunks , the ground , The fresh , moist ground , are all instinct with thee . Here is continual worship ; -nature , here , In the tranquillity ...
... breath , That , from the inmost darkness of the place , Comes , scarcely felt ; -the barky trunks , the ground , The fresh , moist ground , are all instinct with thee . Here is continual worship ; -nature , here , In the tranquillity ...
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... breath , and looks so like a smile , Seems , as it issues from the shapeless mould , An emanation of the indwelling Life , A visible token of the upholding Love , That are the soul of this wide universe . My heart is awed within me ...
... breath , and looks so like a smile , Seems , as it issues from the shapeless mould , An emanation of the indwelling Life , A visible token of the upholding Love , That are the soul of this wide universe . My heart is awed within me ...
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Страница 57 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Страница 61 - God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark whirlwind that uproots...
Страница 34 - Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch!
Страница 67 - PLEASANT it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, Where, the long drooping boughs between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternate come and go...
Страница 72 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Страница 50 - Up springs the lark, Shrill-voic'd, and loud, the messenger of morn; Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations.
Страница 100 - The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew ; The slender fir that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs...
Страница 61 - The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo ! all grow old and die — but see again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses — ever gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms. These lofty trees Wave not less proudly that their ancestors Moulder beneath them.
Страница 56 - Whence all the music. I again perceive The soothing influence of the wafted strains, And settle in soft musings as I tread The walk, still verdant under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade.
Страница 49 - Hail, Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of heaven and earth ! Essential Presence, hail ! To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my thoughts, Continual, climb ; who, with a master-hand, Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd.