In Praise of Leaves: And Other VerseLothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1906 - 124 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... stars agleam , His parted lips that droop with memories mute , His yearning hands that clasp the sacred lute . From out the clamorous dark , with steps that seem To follow , ever hope - impaled , a beam Pursuant , on he presses , snared ...
... stars agleam , His parted lips that droop with memories mute , His yearning hands that clasp the sacred lute . From out the clamorous dark , with steps that seem To follow , ever hope - impaled , a beam Pursuant , on he presses , snared ...
Pagina 24
... star upon her brow , Like genius , burdened with its novice - vow . A bird slips suddenly , his trail Cleaving a shadow's lonely sail , Where beaten meadows of the lake flow clear , Sown with a rippling harvest far and near . THE ...
... star upon her brow , Like genius , burdened with its novice - vow . A bird slips suddenly , his trail Cleaving a shadow's lonely sail , Where beaten meadows of the lake flow clear , Sown with a rippling harvest far and near . THE ...
Pagina 28
... , long and lax , Upon a sky where unlit stars presage . Lo , stand we here with hearts that still persist , While youth's blind shadows hold forgotten tryst . TH REVOCATION “ HE loud day hath his earthly vesture 28 TRYST Tryst.
... , long and lax , Upon a sky where unlit stars presage . Lo , stand we here with hearts that still persist , While youth's blind shadows hold forgotten tryst . TH REVOCATION “ HE loud day hath his earthly vesture 28 TRYST Tryst.
Pagina 53
... stars , and hours still - born ? What of the youthless - they whose arid bays Earth's image - breakers fit to brows forsworn ? What if untended , dwarfed ' neath commonplace , The soul should blossom petalled thrice in grace ...
... stars , and hours still - born ? What of the youthless - they whose arid bays Earth's image - breakers fit to brows forsworn ? What if untended , dwarfed ' neath commonplace , The soul should blossom petalled thrice in grace ...
Pagina 55
... - - They slumber ' neath their wings Night - folded in their mist ! O youth , thy shadowed star , Thy dream - illumined face , Now I , begirt , afar , Uncomforted , retrace ! 1 1 56 " މ TLY s too great include , -ude too LITANY.
... - - They slumber ' neath their wings Night - folded in their mist ! O youth , thy shadowed star , Thy dream - illumined face , Now I , begirt , afar , Uncomforted , retrace ! 1 1 56 " މ TLY s too great include , -ude too LITANY.
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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
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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.