The Courtship of Miles Standish and Minor PoemsMacmillan Company, 1910 |
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angels beautiful behold BELFRY OF BRUGES breath bright Cæsar Captain of Plymouth clouds Courtship of Miles dark dead Death dreams dreary earth Edited England Epimetheus Euroclydon Excelsior eyes feel feet fire Flanders flowers forest Forever never GASPAR BECERRA gleam golden grave hand Hawthorne's hear heard heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow HUMPHREY GILBERT Indian John Alden Julius Cæsar land laugh leaves light living Longfellow look Lord loud maiden Mayflower Miles Standish mist Never forever night Norsemen o'er ocean phantoms Plymouth poem poet poet's prayer Priscilla Puritan rain river roar round sail Sandalphon seemed shadows ship silent singing sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul sound spake stars stood strong sweet thee Thereupon answered thou thoughts of youth tide town unto Victor Galbraith village voice W. D. Howells walls wave wild wind woods words youth are long ΙΟ
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الصفحة 72 - When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight...
الصفحة 155 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.
الصفحة 127 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
الصفحة 93 - THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.
الصفحة 189 - And the bugle wild and shrill. And the music of that old song Throbs in my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
الصفحة 197 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
الصفحة 97 - His hair is crisp, and black and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
الصفحة 143 - We know what Master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
الصفحة 188 - OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
الصفحة 153 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair...