Poetry of the Woods: Passages from the Poets Descriptive of Forest Scenes, Etc., EtcE. H. Butler & Company, 1864 - 128 страници |
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... sides , and covered high above With foliage thick , supported by bare trunks , Like pillars rising to support a roof , It seems a temple vast , the space within Rings loud and clear with thrilling melody . Apart , but near the choir ...
... sides , and covered high above With foliage thick , supported by bare trunks , Like pillars rising to support a roof , It seems a temple vast , the space within Rings loud and clear with thrilling melody . Apart , but near the choir ...
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... side of the slant hills , And where the woods fence off the northern blast , The season smiles , resigning all its rage , And hath the warmth of May . The vault is blue Without a cloud , and white without a speck The dazzling splendor ...
... side of the slant hills , And where the woods fence off the northern blast , The season smiles , resigning all its rage , And hath the warmth of May . The vault is blue Without a cloud , and white without a speck The dazzling splendor ...
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... side , but still in vain , Though full of youthful health , and void of pain : Cares I had none , to keep me from my rest , For love had never entered in my breast ; I wanted nothing fortune could supply , Nor did she slumber till that ...
... side , but still in vain , Though full of youthful health , and void of pain : Cares I had none , to keep me from my rest , For love had never entered in my breast ; I wanted nothing fortune could supply , Nor did she slumber till that ...
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... , A hedge about the sides , a covering over head . And so the fragrant brier was wove between , The sycamore and flowers were mixed with green , That nature seemed to vary the delight ; And satisfied THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF . 75.
... , A hedge about the sides , a covering over head . And so the fragrant brier was wove between , The sycamore and flowers were mixed with green , That nature seemed to vary the delight ; And satisfied THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF . 75.
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... sides were like a parlor made , A soft recess , and a cool summer shade : The hedge was set so thick , no foreign eye The persons placed within it could espy : But all that passed without with ease was seen , As if nor fence nor tree ...
... sides were like a parlor made , A soft recess , and a cool summer shade : The hedge was set so thick , no foreign eye The persons placed within it could espy : But all that passed without with ease was seen , As if nor fence nor tree ...
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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.