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Página 401 - Seen mid the sapphire heaven's deep repose; Into her dream he melted, as the rose Blendeth its odour with the violet, — Solution sweet: meantime the frost-wind blows Like Love's alarum pattering the sharp sleet Against the window-panes; St. Agnes
Página 174 - And this is in the night. — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight — A portion of the tempest and of thee!
Página 400 - O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
Página 129 - There is no rhyme that is half so sweet As the song of the wind in the rippling wheat; There is no metre that's half so fine As the lilt of the brook under rock and vine; And the loveliest lyric I ever heard Was the wildwood strain of a forest bird.
Página 155 - Drouth weights the trees, and from the farmhouse eaves The locust, pulse-beat of the summer day, Throbs ; and the lane, that shambles under leaves Limp with the heat — a league of rutty way — Is lost in dust ; and sultry scents of hay Breathe from the panting meadows heaped with sheaves — Now, now...
Página 373 - ... Beauty, is just as successful in rendering the wild and undisciplined in nature and man as other poems are in memorializing the calm and fair: — Rocks, trees and rocks ; and down a mossy stone The murmuring ooze and trickle of a stream Through bushes where the mountain spring lies lone, — A gleaming cairngorm where the shadows dream, — And one wild road winds like a saffron seam. Here sang the thrush, whose pure mellifluous note Dripped golden sweetness on the fragrant June ; Here cat-...
Página 142 - ... sometimes they glide in classic aloofness through Mr. Cawein's poems, more frequently they have the exquisite substantiality of engaging actualities, born of a poet's affinity with the ineffable beauty of nature which to its votaries is a presence almost palpable and visible. Mr. Gosse said of him: "He brings the ancient gods to Kentucky, and it is marvelous how quickly they learn to be at home there.
Página 355 - And set the laughing days to rhyme ? — No catbird scatters through the hush The sparkling crystals of its song; Within the woods no hermit-thrush Trails an enchanted flute along, A sweet assertion of the hush. All day the crows fly cawing past; The acorns drop ; the forests scowl : At night I hear the bitter blast Hoot...
Página 367 - Their old rock-fences, that our day inherits; Their doors, 'round which the great trees stand like wardens, Their paths, down which the shadows march like spirits; Broad doors and paths that reach bird-haunted gardens. I see them gray among their ancient acres, Severe of front, their gables lichen-sprinkled — Like gentle-hearted, solitary Quakers, Grave and religious, with kind faces wrinkled — Serene among their memory-hallowed acres.