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... HEAD OF NIOBE . ( In the Uffizi Gallery . ) LIPS that withhold the anguish she had known , — Perpetual pathos in the voiceless stone , — The eyes decreed in dead Olympian years A mournful immortality of tears . REPENTANT . This summer ...
... HEAD OF NIOBE . ( In the Uffizi Gallery . ) LIPS that withhold the anguish she had known , — Perpetual pathos in the voiceless stone , — The eyes decreed in dead Olympian years A mournful immortality of tears . REPENTANT . This summer ...
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... head with its crown of gold Seas of sorrow have surged and rolled . Grief like a mantle wraps her about , Shadow within , and shadow without . Luckless the suitor who comes to woo , Never a word will she listen to ; Never a pulse of her ...
... head with its crown of gold Seas of sorrow have surged and rolled . Grief like a mantle wraps her about , Shadow within , and shadow without . Luckless the suitor who comes to woo , Never a word will she listen to ; Never a pulse of her ...
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... head ; Softly the sentinel cypress Weaves with the mournful yew ; Would that their whispering branches Shielded and shadowed two ! Again the Indian Summer Goeth abroad as of old , Bearing her gorgeous banners , Crimson and flame and ...
... head ; Softly the sentinel cypress Weaves with the mournful yew ; Would that their whispering branches Shielded and shadowed two ! Again the Indian Summer Goeth abroad as of old , Bearing her gorgeous banners , Crimson and flame and ...
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... head with my ear to the sod , And listen for answer , O fair golden - rod ! A whisper , — so gentle it may be the whir Of a butterfly's wing , or the rootlets ' faint stir- In musical cadences softly replies , " An angel came down with ...
... head with my ear to the sod , And listen for answer , O fair golden - rod ! A whisper , — so gentle it may be the whir Of a butterfly's wing , or the rootlets ' faint stir- In musical cadences softly replies , " An angel came down with ...
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... head and looks with glad delight , While the whole earth upglows from out the night And ' mid the leaves sweet song - birds silence break . The dawn will wear to day and darkness come , But the pure sum of genius will not sink , And ...
... head and looks with glad delight , While the whole earth upglows from out the night And ' mid the leaves sweet song - birds silence break . The dawn will wear to day and darkness come , But the pure sum of genius will not sink , And ...
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Page 219 - Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies: Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee; In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me!
Page 221 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 231 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 105 - NEARER, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee...
Page 107 - THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. Bv the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day, Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray.
Page 232 - Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Page 96 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 219 - HOW dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view ! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew...
Page 99 - This pencil take, (she said,) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy; Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Page 449 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.