 I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes...  Proceedings ... - Página 214por National Speech Arts Association - 1907Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1849 - 668 páginas
...Miscellaneous' lyrics. Mr. WHITTIER introduces his volume -with this modest and felicitous ' Proem :' * I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. ' Yet vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; 1 feel them, as the leaves... | |
 | 1849 - 638 páginas
...one misht be proud to have written, and which my one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I lore the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To brealhe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 páginas
...Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Hunchowttl. RIUOTYTID BY SI B1CKIXSOB. • PKOEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves and... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 462 páginas
...Proem to the former collection commenced with these exquisite stanzas : "I love the old melodious laye Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. " Yet vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1855 - 436 páginas
...Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of MassachusetU. » Uoan, Prtolm, Bnta>. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 páginas
...as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, iSth, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. 1 LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To hreathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 422 páginas
...as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, i8th, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning daw. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves... | |
 | 1849 - 636 páginas
...any one might be proud to have written, and which ID; one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my qniet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; 1 feel them, as the leaves... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...Heaven ! As the key-note of Whittier's poetry, we might take his own quaint and beautiful lines : — I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadia Sidney's silver phrase, Sprinkling o'er the noon of Time with freshest morning dew. Whittier's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 páginas
...that its subject is not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. j. aw PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest ifccrning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them,... | |
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