Chocorua: And Other SketchesW. Canfield, 1838 - 88 páginas |
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... steals mellow and rich along , Like the first pure gush of the bulbul's song . Sweet girl of the cottage ! How oft , how oft , When the stars were bright and the gales were soft , I've wander'd with her by the smooth sea - shore , And ...
... steals mellow and rich along , Like the first pure gush of the bulbul's song . Sweet girl of the cottage ! How oft , how oft , When the stars were bright and the gales were soft , I've wander'd with her by the smooth sea - shore , And ...
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... young bosom , and ever throw A sweetness around where her foot - steps go ; A sweetness , which steals on the soul like balm , And bids the billows of passion be calm . Like that plant , that beautiful plant , 11 whose 36.
... young bosom , and ever throw A sweetness around where her foot - steps go ; A sweetness , which steals on the soul like balm , And bids the billows of passion be calm . Like that plant , that beautiful plant , 11 whose 36.
Página 47
... Steals sweetly through the midnight air , Far from the haunts of men , Then , think of me , and kindly pour One wish , that soon my woes be o'er On Earth - my many sins forgiven- And that we meet at last in Heaven . TO AN ABSENT SISTER ...
... Steals sweetly through the midnight air , Far from the haunts of men , Then , think of me , and kindly pour One wish , that soon my woes be o'er On Earth - my many sins forgiven- And that we meet at last in Heaven . TO AN ABSENT SISTER ...
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... steals A fearful thought upon the gazer's bosom— Time , ' neath his wing , some cup , perchance , conceals , Whose ... steal from thee of joy each token , And Anguish wring thy spirit , till , at last 51 To Mary,
... steals A fearful thought upon the gazer's bosom— Time , ' neath his wing , some cup , perchance , conceals , Whose ... steal from thee of joy each token , And Anguish wring thy spirit , till , at last 51 To Mary,
Página 72
... steal o'er isles of balm - he droop'd - he died . He came he pass'd like some frail exhalation , That , for a moment , gilds the gloom of night , And cheers the eye of the faint traveller , Then fades and vanisheth ! He came - he pass'd ...
... steal o'er isles of balm - he droop'd - he died . He came he pass'd like some frail exhalation , That , for a moment , gilds the gloom of night , And cheers the eye of the faint traveller , Then fades and vanisheth ! He came - he pass'd ...
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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
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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...