SketchesS.G. Goodrich, 1827 - Всего страниц: 96 |
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Absalom BARRY CORNWALL beautiful Beneath birds blue bosom bowed breath bright bright waves broken brow BURIAL OF ARNOLD cadences cheek child clouds curled dark eye deep delicate dream earth Endymion face feel Floating flowers flung forget gathered gaze gentle gift godlike grass grave gush Hagar hair harp hath heart heaven helm Hindoo hour idolatries Israel Joab laid laugh leaping leaves lifted light lightly lisped living look majesty Meina melody melting mirth moon morning mother's N. P. Willis nature nerve night noble o'er pall pleasant prayed prayer pride pulses pure reed rest shade silent silver star sleep slumber smile soft SONNET spirit stars steal stern stir stole stood summer sunny brow sweet tears tenderness thee thine thing thou thought tints tone tread trees trod voice waking waters weary whispering wind wing YALE COLLEGE
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Стр. 44 - Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk ; And let the misty mountain winds be free To blow against thee : and, in after years, When these wild ecstasies shall be matured Into a sober pleasure, when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies...
Стр. 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Стр. 17 - The soldiers of the king trod to and fro, Clad in the garb of battle ; and their chief, The mighty Joab, stood beside the bier, And gazed upon the dark pall steadfastly, As if he feared the slumberer might stir.
Стр. 19 - Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee; And thy dark sin! — Oh! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home. My lost boy, Absalom!
Стр. 18 - Cold is thy brow, my son, and I am chill, As to my bosom I have tried to press thee. How was I wont to feel my pulses thrill, Like a rich harp-string, yearning to caress thee, And hear thy sweet 'my father,' from these dumb And cold lips, Absalom!
Стр. 28 - And his proud lip was pressed as if with pain. He trod less firmly; and his restless eye Glanced forward frequently, as if some ill He dared not meet were there. His home was near, And men were thronging with that strange delight They have in human passions, to observe The struggle of his feelings with his pride. He gazed intently forward.
Стр. 19 - Absalom !" He covered up his face, and bowed himself A moment on his child : then, giving him A look of melting tenderness, he clasped His hands convulsively, as if in prayer ; And, as...
Стр. 22 - He gave to her the water and the bread, But spoke no word, and trusted not himself To look upon her face, but laid his hand In silent blessing on the fair-haired boy, And left her to her lot of loneliness.
Стр. 19 - T is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee ! — And thy dark sin ! — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom...
Стр. 82 - On the noble sleeper there. Tread lightly, comrades ! — we have laid His dark locks on his brow — Like life — save deeper light and shade : We'll not disturb them now. Tread lightly — for 'tis beautiful, That blue-veined eye-lid's sleep, Hiding the eye death left so dull — Its slumber we will keep.