Chocorua: And Other SketchesW. Canfield, 1838 - 88 páginas |
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... cheek his hectic seal . Day after day the aged Indian watch'd , With anxious gaze beside her couch ; and brought From field and mountain plants medicinal , Which he had learned in youth , to soothe her pangs , To mitigate her anguish ...
... cheek his hectic seal . Day after day the aged Indian watch'd , With anxious gaze beside her couch ; and brought From field and mountain plants medicinal , Which he had learned in youth , to soothe her pangs , To mitigate her anguish ...
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... cheek , appear'd , for health , And truth and innocence were theirs , and Hope , Her choicest caskets , glistening with wealth , Before their eyes , smiling and sweet , did ope.— In light and joy went by their early days , Pure , calm ...
... cheek , appear'd , for health , And truth and innocence were theirs , and Hope , Her choicest caskets , glistening with wealth , Before their eyes , smiling and sweet , did ope.— In light and joy went by their early days , Pure , calm ...
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... cheek : -Her eye Grew dim , and burn'd no longer with a flame Of perfect joy , as wont in days gone by.- Years pass'd - but he return'd not ; -yet her heart Sank not within her , for she lean'd on Hope , And smiling , saw the hours ...
... cheek : -Her eye Grew dim , and burn'd no longer with a flame Of perfect joy , as wont in days gone by.- Years pass'd - but he return'd not ; -yet her heart Sank not within her , for she lean'd on Hope , And smiling , saw the hours ...
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... cheek is fair as the blush of the sky ; Her breath is sweet as the summer wind's sigh ; Her step , as a fairy's , is fleet and light In the mazy throng of dancers bright , And her voice steals mellow and rich along , Like the first pure ...
... cheek is fair as the blush of the sky ; Her breath is sweet as the summer wind's sigh ; Her step , as a fairy's , is fleet and light In the mazy throng of dancers bright , And her voice steals mellow and rich along , Like the first pure ...
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... cheek and the light of her eye Must fade like the glow of the sun - set sky ; Her tresses must part with their glossy hue , And the bloom of her lip be blighted too . ( Sweet girl of the cottage ! I love her well ! For innocence , truth ...
... cheek and the light of her eye Must fade like the glow of the sun - set sky ; Her tresses must part with their glossy hue , And the bloom of her lip be blighted too . ( Sweet girl of the cottage ! I love her well ! For innocence , truth ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ANDROS angels art thou Autumn beam beautiful bird beneath bloom bosom bower breast breath brow burst Canonchet cast chang'd cheek Chocorua cloud dark death deep desolate dost dwell E'er earth FALL RIVER flit o'er flower forest forever forth-a gale gaze gentle giant bird glistening glorious green happy hath heart Heaven hill holy Hope hour hush joyous light lone maid Methinks mirth miss thee morning mountain neath night offer My pretty pale pass'd Pawtucket perfume prayer pretty boquet pure RANZ DES VACHES rill ruby grapes scene setting sun sigh sinks Sister smile Snow-Spirit soft song sorrow soul spirit star steals stood strains stream swell tempest thine Thracian turn'd Twelve months ago twilight UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN vale verdant voice watch'd ween Whence whip-poor-will wild WILLIAM CANFIELD wilt thou never wilt thou think wing young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 85 - The moon shines bright : in such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise, in such a night Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 87 - When sentence of death was passed upon him, he observed / " that he liked it well, for he should die before his heart was soft, or he had spoken any thing unworthy of himself.
Página 27 - O ! the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light, Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Página 88 - Carriage was strangely proud and lofty, after he was taken ; being examined why he did foment that War which would certainly be the destruction of him and all the Heathen Indians in the Country, &c. He would make no other reply to any Interrogatories, but this ; That he was born a prince, and if princes came to speak with him he would answer, but none present being such, he thought himself obliged in honour to hold his tongue...
Página 87 - Stanton, a young man that scarce had reached the twenty-second year of his age ; yet adventuring to ask him a question or two, to whom this manly sachem, looking with a little neglect upon his youthful face, replied in broken English, ' You much child, no understand matters of war; let your brother or your chief come, him I will answer...
Página 32 - WHEN the last sunshine of expiring day In summer's twilight weeps itself away, Who hath not felt the softness of the hour Sink on the heart, as dew along the flower? With a pure feeling which absorbs and awes While nature makes that melancholy pause, Her breathing moment on the bridge where Time Of light and darkness forms an arch sublime.
Página 87 - English ; you much Child, no understand matters of War ; let your brother, or your chief come, him I will Answer ; and was as good as his word ; Acting herein, as if by a Pythagorean Metempsychosis, some old Roman Ghost had possessed the body of this Western Pagan...
Página 88 - No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine; Make not your rosary of yew-berries, Nor let the beetle...
Página 86 - Prepared to walk with her through death's dark vale. And now her eyes grew bright, and brighter still, Too bright for ours to look upon, suffused With many tears, and closed without a cloud. They set as sets the morning star, which goes Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Página 87 - Regulas, he would not accept of his own life, when it was tendered him, upon that (in his account) low condition of compliance with the English, refusing to send an old Counsellor of his to make any motion that way, saying he knew the Indians would not yield; but more probably he was not willing they should, choosing rather to sacrifice his own, and his people's lives, to his private humour of revenge, than timely to provide for his own and their safety, by entertaining the counsels of a peace, so...