Mercedes, and Later Lyrics

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 - 111 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 98 - APPARITIONS AT noon of night, and at the night's pale end, Such things have chanced to me As one, by day, would scarcely tell a friend For fear of mockery. Shadows, you say, mirages of the brain ! I know not, faith, not I. Is it more strange the dead should walk again Than that the quick should die...
Sayfa 99 - Romance beside his unstrung lute Lies stricken mute. The old-time fire, the antique grace, You will not find them anywhere. To-day we breathe a commonplace, Polemic, scientific air: We strip Illusion of her veil ; We vivisect the nightingale To probe the secret of his note.
Sayfa 70 - What dark new quest has tempted him once more To leave us ? Vainly, standing by the shore, We strain our eyes. But patience ! When the soft Spring gales are blowing over Cedarcroft, Whitening the hawthorn ; when the violets bloom Along the Brandywine, and overhead The sky is blue as Italy's, he will come...
Sayfa 92 - APPRECIATION To the sea-shell's spiral round T is your heart that brings the sound: The soft sea-murmurs that you hear Within, are captured from your ear. You do poets and their song A grievous wrong, If your own soul does not bring To their high imagining As much beauty as they sing.
Sayfa 89 - Quite like a stocking," he laughed, "pinned up there on the tree ! Little I thought the birds expected a present from me...
Sayfa 82 - THE new moon hung in the sky, the sun was low in the west, And my betrothed and I in the churchyard paused to rest: Happy maid and lover, dreaming the old dream over: The light winds wandered by, and robins chirped from the nest.
Sayfa 108 - ... it was one ; Whatever fortune fell we took, Children of shade and sun. Though lacking gold, we never stooped To pick it up in all our days ; Though lacking praise we sometimes drooped, We never asked a soul for praise. The exquisite reward of song Was song — the self -same thrill and glow Which to unfolding flowers belong, And wrens and thrushes know...
Sayfa 89 - ... was fading amid her misty rings, And every stocking was stuffed with childhood's precious things, Old Kriss Kringle looked round, and saw on the elm-tree bough, High-hung, an oriole's nest, silent and empty now. "Quite like a stocking," he laughed, "pinned up there on the tree!

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