The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 1William Cullen Bryant Doubleday, Page, 1925 - 1100 pages "A comprehensive exhibit of poetic literature" -- Preface. A collection of English and American poetry on topics such as nature and childhood. |
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... page ! " What art is his the written spells to find " That way , from mood to nood , the willing mind ! William Cullen Bryant Copard Occr . 1875 . " BLESSINGS be with them , and eternal praise , Seek'st thou in living layd.
... page ! " What art is his the written spells to find " That way , from mood to nood , the willing mind ! William Cullen Bryant Copard Occr . 1875 . " BLESSINGS be with them , and eternal praise , Seek'st thou in living layd.
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William Cullen Bryant. " BLESSINGS be with them , and eternal praise , Who gave us nobler loves , and nobler cares , - The Poets ! who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! " Personal Talk . unlondutto ...
William Cullen Bryant. " BLESSINGS be with them , and eternal praise , Who gave us nobler loves , and nobler cares , - The Poets ! who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! " Personal Talk . unlondutto ...
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... bless Each new , dear , well - remembered loveliness ; The silver sheen Of fresh things , shy and green ; The fragrant lure of lilacs after rain- The old ache , trampling in my heart again ! From the New York Sun. A NEW YEAR PRAYER ...
... bless Each new , dear , well - remembered loveliness ; The silver sheen Of fresh things , shy and green ; The fragrant lure of lilacs after rain- The old ache , trampling in my heart again ! From the New York Sun. A NEW YEAR PRAYER ...
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... Blessed are they that mourn 534 743 " I would I were an excellent divine " Death of the Flowers , The 466 Phillida and Corydon Evening Wind , The • 411 Phillis the Fair Fatima and Raduan ( From the Spanish ) 166 BRISTOL , LORD Flood of ...
... Blessed are they that mourn 534 743 " I would I were an excellent divine " Death of the Flowers , The 466 Phillida and Corydon Evening Wind , The • 411 Phillis the Fair Fatima and Raduan ( From the Spanish ) 166 BRISTOL , LORD Flood of ...
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... Blessed Damozel , The Nevermore , The England , 1673-1718 . ROWE , NICHOLAS . From : The Fair Penitent ROYDEN , MATHEW . England , about 1586 . Sir Philip Sidney 132 Rebecca's Hymn ( Ivanhoe ) Scotland ( Lay of the Last Minstrel ) ...
... Blessed Damozel , The Nevermore , The England , 1673-1718 . ROWE , NICHOLAS . From : The Fair Penitent ROYDEN , MATHEW . England , about 1586 . Sir Philip Sidney 132 Rebecca's Hymn ( Ivanhoe ) Scotland ( Lay of the Last Minstrel ) ...
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Page 317 - Darkling I listen ; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 130 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 297 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despised love, the law's delay. The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Page 306 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 286 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Page 145 - Of hair-breadth scapes i" the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 317 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards. Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays ; But here there is no light Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 234 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Page 311 - Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Page 115 - And moan the expense of many a vanished sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.