Apples of Gold: A Book of Selected VerseAmerican Unitarian Association, 1903 - 186 pàgines |
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ALFRED TENNYSON angels beauty beneath birds birth blessing blest break breast breath bright brother calm Cast Charles child dark DAVID ATWOOD WASSON death deed divine dost doth dream earth EDWARD ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eternal fair faith Father fear feet flower FREDERICK LUCIAN gift give glory glow God's gold grace hand hath hear heaven heavenly HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW holy hope HYMN JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER land light living look Lord love's man's mercy morning never night o'er onward peace poems praise pray prayer RALPH WALDO EMERSON ROBERT BROWNING rose rose-leaves round sacred SAMUEL shadow shining SIDNEY LANIER silent sing smile song soul sound spirit Stanzas stars sweet thee thine things THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON thou art thought thy heart truth unseen voice wave Where'er WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings wise word
Passatges populars
Pàgina 65 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Pàgina 124 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait.
Pàgina 64 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Pàgina 179 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Pàgina 51 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Pàgina 59 - Thou art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee : Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Pàgina 135 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Pàgina 57 - Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Pàgina 66 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : " Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Pàgina 110 - Rejoice we are allied To That which doth provide And not partake, effect and not receive! A spark disturbs our clod ; Nearer we hold of God Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe.