Poets of America: With Occasional NotesGeorge Barrell Cheever |
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... glow with light intense , imperishable . Thus , in the sparry chambers of the sea And air - pavilions , rainbow tabernacles , They study Nature's secrets , and enjoy No poor dominion . Tam . Are they beautiful , And powerful far beyond ...
... glow with light intense , imperishable . Thus , in the sparry chambers of the sea And air - pavilions , rainbow tabernacles , They study Nature's secrets , and enjoy No poor dominion . Tam . Are they beautiful , And powerful far beyond ...
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... glow ; But on the hill the golden - rod , and the aster in the wood , And the yellow sun - flower by the brook in autumn beauty stood , Fill fell the frost from the clear , cold heaven , as falls the plague on men , And the brightness ...
... glow ; But on the hill the golden - rod , and the aster in the wood , And the yellow sun - flower by the brook in autumn beauty stood , Fill fell the frost from the clear , cold heaven , as falls the plague on men , And the brightness ...
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... whom , in ancient time , The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung , Whom kings adored in songs sublime , And prophets praised with glowing tongue , - Not now , on Zion's height alone , The favored CHEEVER'S POETS OF AMERICA . 43 Pierpont.
... whom , in ancient time , The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung , Whom kings adored in songs sublime , And prophets praised with glowing tongue , - Not now , on Zion's height alone , The favored CHEEVER'S POETS OF AMERICA . 43 Pierpont.
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... glowing portals closed . Undone , they stood Wistfully gazing on the cold gray heaven , As if to catch , alas ! a hope not there . But shades began to gather , night approached , Murky and lowering ; round with horror rolled On one ...
... glowing portals closed . Undone , they stood Wistfully gazing on the cold gray heaven , As if to catch , alas ! a hope not there . But shades began to gather , night approached , Murky and lowering ; round with horror rolled On one ...
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... glow In he motionless fields of upper air : There , with its waving blade of green , The sea - flag streams through the silent water , And the crim son leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter : There , with ...
... glow In he motionless fields of upper air : There , with its waving blade of green , The sea - flag streams through the silent water , And the crim son leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter : There , with ...
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Absalom beams beauty beneath bird blessed bloom blue bosom breast breath breeze bright brow calm CARLOS WILCOX clouds cold dark dead death deep didst dread dreams dwell earth eternal fair Father fear feel flowers gaze gentle glad gloom glorious glory glow golden golden sun gone grave green grief Hadad hast hath hear heart heaven Helon hills holy hour idlesse leaves light lips living lonely look lyre morning mountain musing Nath night o'er old oaken bucket orbs pale peace praise prayer pure rest roll round scene shade shine shore silent skies sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spring stars storm stream sublime sweet swell tears tempest thee thine thou art thought thundering bands tomb tread trees Twas twill vale voice waters waves waves dance weary weep white-thorn wild winds wings woods youth
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Page 136 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns...
Page 54 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 136 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between, The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 149 - And from the gray old trunks that high in heaven Mingled their mossy boughs, and from the sound Of the invisible breath that swayed at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. Ah, why • Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised...
Page 36 - And now, when comes the calm, mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 150 - Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this great universe.
Page 35 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread...
Page 150 - In music — thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness of the place Comes, scarcely felt ; the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh moist ground, are all instinct with thee. Here is continual worship — nature, here, In the tranquillity that thou dost love, Enjoys thy presence. Noiselessly, around, From perch to perch, the solitary bird Passes ; and yon clear spring, that, midst its herbs, Wells softly forth and visits the strong roots Of half the mighty forest, tells no tale Of...
Page 59 - Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 149 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.