The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowMilner and Sowerby, 1862 - 516 páginas |
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... shadows of earth , but reflecting an image of heaven ! Waste are those pleasant farms , and the farmers for ever departed ! Scattered like dust and leaves , when the mighty blasts of October Seize them , and whirl them aloft , and ...
... shadows of earth , but reflecting an image of heaven ! Waste are those pleasant farms , and the farmers for ever departed ! Scattered like dust and leaves , when the mighty blasts of October Seize them , and whirl them aloft , and ...
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... shadow , and vanished away into darkness . Faces , clumsily carved in oak , on the back of his arm - chair Laughed in the flickering light , and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame , as shields of armies the ...
... shadow , and vanished away into darkness . Faces , clumsily carved in oak , on the back of his arm - chair Laughed in the flickering light , and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame , as shields of armies the ...
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... shadow of sorrow Fall on this house and hearth ; for this is the night of the contract , Built are the house and the barn . The merry lads of the village Strongly have built them and well ; and , breaking the glebe round [ month . about ...
... shadow of sorrow Fall on this house and hearth ; for this is the night of the contract , Built are the house and the barn . The merry lads of the village Strongly have built them and well ; and , breaking the glebe round [ month . about ...
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... shadow . Yet were her thoughts of him , and at times a feeling of sadness Passed o'er her soul , as the sailing shade of ... shadows were riding at anchor . Life had long been astir in the village , and clamorous labour Knocked with its ...
... shadow . Yet were her thoughts of him , and at times a feeling of sadness Passed o'er her soul , as the sailing shade of ... shadows were riding at anchor . Life had long been astir in the village , and clamorous labour Knocked with its ...
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... shadow . Yet were her thoughts of him , and at times a feeling of sadness Passed o'er her soul , as the sailing shade of ... shadows were riding at anchor . Life had long been astir in the village , and clamorous labour Knocked with its ...
... shadow . Yet were her thoughts of him , and at times a feeling of sadness Passed o'er her soul , as the sailing shade of ... shadows were riding at anchor . Life had long been astir in the village , and clamorous labour Knocked with its ...
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Acadian Alden angels answer arrows beautiful behold BELFRY OF BRUGES beneath birds breath bright Captain Chispa clouds Dacotahs dance dark dead death dreams earth Edenhall Elsie Evangeline eyes face father feet fire flowers forest Friar Gipsies gleam golden grave Guy de Dampierre hand hast hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha holy John Alden Kenabeek King land Lara Laughing Water light look loud Lucifer maiden meadow Miles Standish Minnesinger Mondamin moon morning night Nokomis o'er Osseo Padre pass Pau-Puk-Keewis Plymouth pray prayer Prec Prince Henry Priscilla river rose round sail Saint Sandalphon sang shadow shining silent singing sleep smile song Song of Hiawatha sorrow soul sound spake speak stands stars stood sunshine sweet Tharaw thee thou art thoughts unto Vict village voice walls wampum wandered waves wigwam wild wind words youth
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Página 155 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Página 135 - And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Página 38 - And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. » In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ; Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! /!Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time...
Página 163 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...
Página 155 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Página 38 - O holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before ! Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care, And they complain no more.
Página 100 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Página 140 - Through days of sorrow and of mirth, Through days of death and days of birth, Through every swift vicissitude Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood, And as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Página 119 - Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts...
Página 446 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not. attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.