In Praise of Leaves: And Other VerseLothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1906 - 124 pagina's |
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Pagina 27
... Twixt pauses in their flight . " Be quiet , restless heart , " I said , As working hours crept , " Art thou still mourner of thy dead ? Long thou hast served and wept ! " Oh heart - wings , wilt thou folded be ? For keen are dawn's sad ...
... Twixt pauses in their flight . " Be quiet , restless heart , " I said , As working hours crept , " Art thou still mourner of thy dead ? Long thou hast served and wept ! " Oh heart - wings , wilt thou folded be ? For keen are dawn's sad ...
Pagina 49
... Twixt deeds that festival remembrance lose , The dreary wisdom of the day slipped by , And life outpeering with a stranger eye ? The Victory of failure ? who may tell Of final peace where strivings sleeping dwell , Shall triumph or ...
... Twixt deeds that festival remembrance lose , The dreary wisdom of the day slipped by , And life outpeering with a stranger eye ? The Victory of failure ? who may tell Of final peace where strivings sleeping dwell , Shall triumph or ...
Pagina 49
... twixt the soul and flesh ; Man's signal thought reveal - my need forgive ! So said I , Lord , who now my prayer revoke , Begging instead , the grails that come not true , The simple heart of faith , the quiet yoke Of shadows distant as ...
... twixt the soul and flesh ; Man's signal thought reveal - my need forgive ! So said I , Lord , who now my prayer revoke , Begging instead , the grails that come not true , The simple heart of faith , the quiet yoke Of shadows distant as ...
Pagina 54
... Twixt deeds that festival remembrance lose , The dreary wisdom of the day slipped by , And life outpeering with a stranger eye ? The Victory of failure ? who may tell Of final peace where strivings sleeping dwell , Shall triumph or ...
... Twixt deeds that festival remembrance lose , The dreary wisdom of the day slipped by , And life outpeering with a stranger eye ? The Victory of failure ? who may tell Of final peace where strivings sleeping dwell , Shall triumph or ...
Pagina 55
... twixt the soul and flesh ; Man's signal thought reveal - my need forgive ! So said I , Lord , who now my prayer revoke , Begging instead , the grails that come not true , The simple heart of faith , the quiet yoke Of shadows distant as ...
... twixt the soul and flesh ; Man's signal thought reveal - my need forgive ! So said I , Lord , who now my prayer revoke , Begging instead , the grails that come not true , The simple heart of faith , the quiet yoke Of shadows distant as ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Angel Death APOLLO AND DAPHNE art thou Bay of Spezia beneath breast breeze clouds you love darkness day shuts dear DEVON ROAD doth Dream-child dreams dumb earth Echo ENGLISH LANE eternity eyes and sleeps fold Footprints like memories frail gainst gaze gleaming glow green gull hail hands heart heights hushed jester JOY RIDING SWIFTLY knew Lady Claire Lady of Clouds Lerici lingering lisping little Mother lonely loom Lost Spring melody mesh mist murmur mute neath night o'er October 15 pale pass PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY pines Pisa Poet PRAISE OF LEAVES PROTESTANT CEMETERY rest River goes San Giuliano San Terenzo SEA-TURN shore shrine SHUMAN shuts its troubled sigh silence sings skies smile sound stars stir STORM-CHASED sudden tangled thee Thy dreams Thy shadows To-day TOMOKA RIVER tossed trees trembling troubled eyes Twilight Land unfathomed Unto verdant Via Reggio VILLA MAGNI ween WIND-LEAVES winds wings wist
Populaire passages
Pagina 61 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures,- love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Pagina 5 - ... because I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name: In you not fourscore years can dim the flame Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws Of time and change and mortal life and death. IN PRAISE OF LEAVES BY LILIAN SHUMAN DREYFUS, 1906 To MY MOTHER, HETTIE LANG SHUMAN Stumbling, we see the future as a cup Which she no longer stores with bread and wine, And where our human longing, yours and mine, Is all the incense we may offer up. A MOTHER'S...
Pagina 93 - THERE have I stood, and chastened by his name, With silence knelt — a shadow at a shrine; There have I given thanks, while breezes brine Murmured monotonies of youth and fame, Like votive anthems droned with soul aflame ! There have I wandered, while the memoried air Whispered of dreams evasive, sadly fair, Of crystal faith earth could not crush or tame. Surely within...
Pagina 111 - This is the world, and its heart is still, It shall fret no more its changeless will, Insensate beside its ashen hearth, Dumb it doth lie in the ice-wind's path.