Poetry of the Woods: Passages from the Poets Descriptive of Forest Scenes, Etc., EtcE. H. Butler & Company, 1864 - 128 страници |
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... pass , gentle and poor , The gayest and the gravest , all alike , — Then turn into the peaceful woods , and hear The thrilling music of the forest birds . How rich the varied choir ! The unquiet finch Calls 4 THE NOTES OF THE BIRDS . 25 ...
... pass , gentle and poor , The gayest and the gravest , all alike , — Then turn into the peaceful woods , and hear The thrilling music of the forest birds . How rich the varied choir ! The unquiet finch Calls 4 THE NOTES OF THE BIRDS . 25 ...
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... With beautiful creations ? Then pass forth , And find them midst those many - colored birds . That fill the glowing woods . The richest hues Lie in their splendid plumage , and their tones Are 28 28 THE NOTES OF THE BIRDS .
... With beautiful creations ? Then pass forth , And find them midst those many - colored birds . That fill the glowing woods . The richest hues Lie in their splendid plumage , and their tones Are 28 28 THE NOTES OF THE BIRDS .
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... Passes ; and yon clear spring , that , ' midst its herbs , Wells softly forth , and visits the strong roots Of half the mighty forest , tells no tale Of all the good it does . Thou hast not left Thyself without a witness , in these ...
... Passes ; and yon clear spring , that , ' midst its herbs , Wells softly forth , and visits the strong roots Of half the mighty forest , tells no tale Of all the good it does . Thou hast not left Thyself without a witness , in these ...
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... pass life thus . But let me often in these solitudes Retire , and in thy presence reassure My feeble virtue . Here its enemies , The passions , at thy plainer footsteps shrink , And tremble , and are still . O God ! when thou Dost scare ...
... pass life thus . But let me often in these solitudes Retire , and in thy presence reassure My feeble virtue . Here its enemies , The passions , at thy plainer footsteps shrink , And tremble , and are still . O God ! when thou Dost scare ...
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... Ye were so sweet and wild ! And distant voices seemed to say , " It cannot be ! They pass away ! Other themes demand thy lay ; Thou art no more a child ! " The land of Song within thee lies , Watered 68 PRELUDE . LINES,
... Ye were so sweet and wild ! And distant voices seemed to say , " It cannot be ! They pass away ! Other themes demand thy lay ; Thou art no more a child ! " The land of Song within thee lies , Watered 68 PRELUDE . LINES,
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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.