Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive PoemsRobinson and Jones, 1845 - 184 páginas |
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... youth , upwards , in a daily round of active mercantile pursuits , the " Trifles " which he thus offers to the public - the offspring of moments stolen from the desk of the banking - house and the counting- room - can , at the best ...
... youth , upwards , in a daily round of active mercantile pursuits , the " Trifles " which he thus offers to the public - the offspring of moments stolen from the desk of the banking - house and the counting- room - can , at the best ...
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... Youth's First Love Love at Auction I Care for Nobody The Quandary The Quakeress Our Western Girls A Brace of Epigrams 102 103 107 109 112 114 116 The Unspoken Betrothal 117 Beauty Silent 121 Mary 123 Mary - a Recantation 125 Woman's ...
... Youth's First Love Love at Auction I Care for Nobody The Quandary The Quakeress Our Western Girls A Brace of Epigrams 102 103 107 109 112 114 116 The Unspoken Betrothal 117 Beauty Silent 121 Mary 123 Mary - a Recantation 125 Woman's ...
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... youth , Kept to read in after years ; They are manhood's well of truth , Filled with childhood's early tears . Like the low and plaintive moan Of the night - wind through the trees , Sweet to hear , though sad and lone , Are those ...
... youth , Kept to read in after years ; They are manhood's well of truth , Filled with childhood's early tears . Like the low and plaintive moan Of the night - wind through the trees , Sweet to hear , though sad and lone , Are those ...
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... youth , Hast ever had thy memory cross'd By her sweet tones of love and truth ? ~~ Her gentle spirit hast thou deemed Still hovering all thy steps above ? Oh then how bless'd a thing hath seemed An ANGEL - MOTHER'S LOVE ! 21 TO ONE IN ...
... youth , Hast ever had thy memory cross'd By her sweet tones of love and truth ? ~~ Her gentle spirit hast thou deemed Still hovering all thy steps above ? Oh then how bless'd a thing hath seemed An ANGEL - MOTHER'S LOVE ! 21 TO ONE IN ...
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... leave , To think that I were missed by one ! There are indeed full many - those I have grown up beside , from youth— Whom I should deeply mourn to lose ; And yet and yet , in very sooth , I could not feel , if this day's sun To.
... leave , To think that I were missed by one ! There are indeed full many - those I have grown up beside , from youth— Whom I should deeply mourn to lose ; And yet and yet , in very sooth , I could not feel , if this day's sun To.
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angel beneath the sky birth BIRTH-DAY bless bless'd bliss blue boast breathe bright brow calm charm Cherish Conoquenessing dear death doth dream dust dust to dust e'en earth fair fairer fairest fairy fancy feel flowers Freedom and Fame gaze gentle girls we love girls we love!—all glory grace grief hair happy days HARVARD COLLEGE hath heart Heaven holy KATE kings lady land life's light lone love my love love!—all girls Love's Macedon maiden MARY MARY'S LOVE MERRY OLD ENGLAND moon by night moonstruck mortal Mother's ne'er Neath never night o'er Olden Memories once perchance praise pride pure QUAKERESS Queen QUEEN VICTORIA roam seek shines skies smile song sooth sorrow soul spirit sunny sweet sweetest tears thee thine thou art thou hast thought throne thy steps truth twas vows weary ween wild WOMAN'S SPHERE youth Zelienople
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Página 96 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair: But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 42 - It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly...
Página 49 - His storm and wind shook thy soul with pious awe, — there are thy affections, there is thy country. Where the first human eye bent lovingly over thy cradle, where thy mother first bore thee joyfully on her bosom, where thy father engraved the words of wisdom on thy heart, — there are thy affections...
Página 99 - You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst ; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of...
Página 13 - Like the dim traditions, hoary, Of our loved and native clime; Like some half-forgotten story, Read or heard in olden time ; Like the fresh'ning dew of even To the parched and drooping flower ; Like the peaceful thoughts of Heaven In life's tempest-stricken hour ; Like the cadence of a song, — Yet, oh, sweeter far than these, Are the thoughts that round us throng With those
Página 14 - Like the peaceful thought of Heaven, In life's tempest-stricken hour; Like the cadence of a song ; — Yet, oh ! sweeter far than these Are the thoughts that round us throng With those Olden Memories...
Página 15 - Oh ! then, sweeter than perfume Borne on aromatic breeze, To the softened spirit come Those dear " Olden Memories !" In our days of mirth and gladness We may spurn their faint control, But they come, in hours of sadness, Like sweet music to the soul ; And in sorrow, o'er us stealing With their gentleness and calm, They are leaves of precious healing, They are fruits of choicest balm. Ever till, when life departs, Death from dross the spirit frees, Cherish, in thine heart of hearts, All thine " Olden...
Página 74 - Light to thy path, bright creature! I would charm Thy being, if I could, that it should be Ever as now thou dreamest, and flow on, Thus innocent and beautiful, to heaven.
Página 183 - Why should the memories of the dead Be ever those of gloom and sadness ? — Why should their dwellings not be made 'Mid scenes of light, and life, and gladness ? Here let the young and gay repair, And in this scene of light and beauty, Gather from earth, and sky, and air, Lessons of life, and love, and duty...