PoemsJ. Munroe & Company, 1847 - 251 páginas |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 29
Página 14
... thought the sparrow's note from heaven , Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home , in his nest , at even ; He sings the song , but it pleases not now , For I did not bring home the river and sky 14 II.
... thought the sparrow's note from heaven , Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home , in his nest , at even ; He sings the song , but it pleases not now , For I did not bring home the river and sky 14 II.
Página 17
... thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came , Like the volcano's tongue 2 ...
... thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came , Like the volcano's tongue 2 ...
Página 19
... Thought's interior sphere , These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them place , Adopted them into her race , And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat . These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might ...
... Thought's interior sphere , These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them place , Adopted them into her race , And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat . These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might ...
Página 23
... to deck her hair : He mixes music with her thoughts , And saddens her with heavenly doubts : All grace , all good his great heart knows , Profuse in love , the king bestows : Saying , ' Hearken ! Earth , Sea , Air TO RHEA . 23.
... to deck her hair : He mixes music with her thoughts , And saddens her with heavenly doubts : All grace , all good his great heart knows , Profuse in love , the king bestows : Saying , ' Hearken ! Earth , Sea , Air TO RHEA . 23.
Página 33
... railways ironed o'er ? - They are but sailing foam - bells Along Thought's causing stream , And take their shape and sun - color From him that sends the dream . For Destiny does not like To yield to men the 3 THE WORLD - SOUL . 3333.
... railways ironed o'er ? - They are but sailing foam - bells Along Thought's causing stream , And take their shape and sun - color From him that sends the dream . For Destiny does not like To yield to men the 3 THE WORLD - SOUL . 3333.
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
agrimony amulets astronomy bard beauty bird blessed blood boughs breeze brook Canst child churl cloud Cossack Dæmon dear deep delight divine doth draw earth eternal eyebeam Fakirs fall Fate feet flame flowers forest forest fall forever genius German glow gods GOETHE grace Hafiz hast hath Hearken heaven Heed hill Houris JAMES MUNROE JEAN PAUL RICHTER Jove juice land leaves light lore lover maid melt mind morning mountain Muse Nature Nature's never o'er pale Pentecost pine pine-tree plant Pleiads POEMS poet Price 50 cents pulse race rhyme rose round Saadi SAMUEL OSGOOD scorn secret seek shadow shines sings song soul sphere Sphinx star sunbeam sweet thee thine eye things thou thou shalt thought throbbing thrush thy heart Translated tree Twill unto Uriel volume wave wild wind wise wood
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 250 - BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Página 72 - The timid it concerns to ask their way, And fear what foe in caves and swamps can stray, To make no step until the event is known, And ills to come as evils past bemoan. Not so the wise ; no coward watch he keeps To spy what danger on his pathway creeps ; Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, — his hall the azure dome ; Where his clear spirit leads him, there's his road, By God's own light illumined and foreshowed.
Página 141 - T is a brave master; Let it have scope: Follow it utterly, Hope beyond hope: High and more high It dives into noon, With wing unspent, Untold intent; But it is a god, Knows its own path And the outlets of the sky. It was never for the mean; It requireth courage stout. Souls above doubt, Valor unbending, It will reward,-- They shall return More than they were, And ever ascending.
Página 12 - In stings of remorse. Have I a lover Who is noble and free ? — I would he were nobler Than to love me. " Eterne alternation Now follows, now flies ; And under pain, pleasure, — Under pleasure, pain lies. ;/ *••< Love works at the centre, Heart-heaving alway ; Forth speed the strong pulses To the borders of day. " Dull Sphinx, Jove keep thy five wits ; Thy sight is growing blear; Rue, myrrh and cummin for the Sphinx, __~- Her muddy eyes to clear...
Página 53 - Where are these men ? Asleep beneath their grounds And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough. Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs ; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.
Página 138 - Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
Página 29 - Or by knowledge grown too bright To hit the nerve of feebler sight. Straightway, a forgetting wind Stole over the celestial kind, And their lips the secret kept, If in ashes the fire-seed slept. But now and then, truth-speaking things Shamed the angels...
Página 120 - And ride mankind. There are two laws discrete, Not reconciled — Law for man, and law for thing; The last builds town and fleet, But it runs wild, And doth the man unking.
Página 121 - Let man serve law for man; Live for friendship, live for love, For truth's and harmony's behoof; The state may follow how it can, As Olympus follows Jove.
Página 59 - Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose!