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... Seems like a canopy which Love has spread To curtain her sleeping world . Yon gentle hills , Robed in a garment of untrodden snow ; Yon darksome rocks whence icicles depend , So stainless that their white and glittering spires Tinge not ...
... Seems like a canopy which Love has spread To curtain her sleeping world . Yon gentle hills , Robed in a garment of untrodden snow ; Yon darksome rocks whence icicles depend , So stainless that their white and glittering spires Tinge not ...
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... seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ; * Diminutive nouns are usually formed by some termination that has a short - sounding vowel . Thus -kin is appended ; as lambkin , little lamb ; or -ock , as hillock , little hill ; or -let ...
... seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ; * Diminutive nouns are usually formed by some termination that has a short - sounding vowel . Thus -kin is appended ; as lambkin , little lamb ; or -ock , as hillock , little hill ; or -let ...
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... seems the distance . While the voice is uttering the words , the mind traverses , as it were , the space ; or half im- agines itself so employed . For further illustration , note the impression conveyed by dwelling one or two seconds on ...
... seems the distance . While the voice is uttering the words , the mind traverses , as it were , the space ; or half im- agines itself so employed . For further illustration , note the impression conveyed by dwelling one or two seconds on ...
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... seems uncouth ; Unlike our northern , whistling , grunting guttural , Which we're obliged to hiss and spit and sputter all ! The element of vocal expression here suggested is termed QUALITY . Pure quality is opposed to aspirated ...
... seems uncouth ; Unlike our northern , whistling , grunting guttural , Which we're obliged to hiss and spit and sputter all ! The element of vocal expression here suggested is termed QUALITY . Pure quality is opposed to aspirated ...
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... things ; And though she seem of other birth , Round us her heart entwines and clings , And patiently she folds her wings To tread the humble paths of earth . Blessing she is : God made her so ; And 40 THE SIXTH READER .
... things ; And though she seem of other birth , Round us her heart entwines and clings , And patiently she folds her wings To tread the humble paths of earth . Blessing she is : God made her so ; And 40 THE SIXTH READER .
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Page 323 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 155 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart ; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 28 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Page 112 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near...
Page 218 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 303 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 46 - What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight From the molten, golden notes! And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon!
Page 286 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air, and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! O dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 212 - Lonely and spectral and sombre and still. And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns!
Page 218 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, , And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.