Poetry of the Woods: Passages from the Poets Descriptive of Forest Scenes, Etc., EtcE. H. Butler & Company, 1864 - 128 páginas |
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... human feet approach Unheard till just upon him , when , with cries Sudden and sharp , he darts to his retreat , Beneath the mossy hillock or aged tree ; But oft , a moment after , reappears , First peeping out , then starting forth at ...
... human feet approach Unheard till just upon him , when , with cries Sudden and sharp , he darts to his retreat , Beneath the mossy hillock or aged tree ; But oft , a moment after , reappears , First peeping out , then starting forth at ...
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... human life ; If thou art sick and weak , or mournest at the loss Of brethren gone to that far distant land To which we all do pass , gentle and poor , The gayest and the gravest , all alike , — Then turn into the peaceful woods , and ...
... human life ; If thou art sick and weak , or mournest at the loss Of brethren gone to that far distant land To which we all do pass , gentle and poor , The gayest and the gravest , all alike , — Then turn into the peaceful woods , and ...
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... ceased Their noisy note , and folded up their wings . Far up some brook's still course , whose current mines The forest's blackened roots , and whose green marge Is seldom visited by human foot , The lonely heron THE NOTES OF THE BIRDS .
... ceased Their noisy note , and folded up their wings . Far up some brook's still course , whose current mines The forest's blackened roots , and whose green marge Is seldom visited by human foot , The lonely heron THE NOTES OF THE BIRDS .
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... human foot , The lonely heron sits , and harshly breaks The Sabbath silence of the wilderness : And you may find her by some reedy pool , Or brooding gloomily on the time - stained rock , Beside some misty and far - reaching lake . Most ...
... human foot , The lonely heron sits , and harshly breaks The Sabbath silence of the wilderness : And you may find her by some reedy pool , Or brooding gloomily on the time - stained rock , Beside some misty and far - reaching lake . Most ...
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... consumed within the purest glow Of one serene and unapproached star , As if it were a lamp of earthly light , Unconscious as some human lovers are , Itself how low , how high , beyond all height 30 THE WOODMAN AND NIGHTINGALE .
... consumed within the purest glow Of one serene and unapproached star , As if it were a lamp of earthly light , Unconscious as some human lovers are , Itself how low , how high , beyond all height 30 THE WOODMAN AND NIGHTINGALE .
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Página 57 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 61 - God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark whirlwind that uproots...
Página 34 - Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch!
Página 67 - PLEASANT it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, Where, the long drooping boughs between, Shadows dark and sunlight sheen Alternate come and go...
Página 72 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Página 50 - Up springs the lark, Shrill-voic'd, and loud, the messenger of morn; Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations.
Página 100 - The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew ; The slender fir that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs...
Página 61 - The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo ! all grow old and die — but see again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses — ever gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms. These lofty trees Wave not less proudly that their ancestors Moulder beneath them.
Página 56 - Whence all the music. I again perceive The soothing influence of the wafted strains, And settle in soft musings as I tread The walk, still verdant under oaks and elms, Whose outspread branches overarch the glade.
Página 49 - Hail, Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of heaven and earth ! Essential Presence, hail ! To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my thoughts, Continual, climb ; who, with a master-hand, Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd.