Sayings and Doings of the General Meeting, Volumen3Western Association of Writers., 1859 - 300 páginas |
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... lines addressed to Isabel M- I copy the opening stanza as the most favorable specimen which I have seen of her verse . Forever vanished from thy cheek Is life's unfolding rose- Forever quenched the flashing smile That conscious beauty ...
... lines addressed to Isabel M- I copy the opening stanza as the most favorable specimen which I have seen of her verse . Forever vanished from thy cheek Is life's unfolding rose- Forever quenched the flashing smile That conscious beauty ...
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... Lines on the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake " is , as a whole , one of the best poems of its author . Its simplicity and delicacy of sentiment will recommend it to all readers . It is , however , carelessly written , and the first ...
... Lines on the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake " is , as a whole , one of the best poems of its author . Its simplicity and delicacy of sentiment will recommend it to all readers . It is , however , carelessly written , and the first ...
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... lines , and it is a pity they were not left out . It is laughable to see that the transcendental poets , if beguiled for a minute or two into respectable English and common sense , are always sure to remember their cue just as they get ...
... lines , and it is a pity they were not left out . It is laughable to see that the transcendental poets , if beguiled for a minute or two into respectable English and common sense , are always sure to remember their cue just as they get ...
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... Lines on Hearing Triumphant Music , " but as the subject is essentially different , so the effect is by no means so displeasing . I copy one of the stanzas as the noblest individual passage which I can find among all the poems of its ...
... Lines on Hearing Triumphant Music , " but as the subject is essentially different , so the effect is by no means so displeasing . I copy one of the stanzas as the noblest individual passage which I can find among all the poems of its ...
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... this - a sketch within a sketch - a dream within a dream . Wherever we sec it , the lines of the great buttress in the fragment of stone , the hues of the waterfall , copied in the flowers that star its bordering 78 SARAH MARGARET FULLER .
... this - a sketch within a sketch - a dream within a dream . Wherever we sec it , the lines of the great buttress in the fragment of stone , the hues of the waterfall , copied in the flowers that star its bordering 78 SARAH MARGARET FULLER .
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Página 173 - In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair!
Página 571 - The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Página 324 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 325 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Página 60 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 288 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Página 194 - In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
Página 247 - He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well: — and the thing that he "does" especially well is the public.
Página 318 - FULL knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing : Toll ye the church-bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year, you must not die ; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year, you shall not die.
Página 317 - And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain, And patter their doleful prayers; — But their prayers are all in vain, All in vain...