Poetry of the Woods: Passages from the Poets Descriptive of Forest Scenes, Etc., EtcE. H. Butler & Company, 1864 - 128 páginas |
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... soul but one . And so this man returned with axe and saw At evening close from killing the tall treen , The soul of whom by nature's gentle law Was each a wood - nymph , and kept ever green The pavement and the roof of the wild copse ...
... soul but one . And so this man returned with axe and saw At evening close from killing the tall treen , The soul of whom by nature's gentle law Was each a wood - nymph , and kept ever green The pavement and the roof of the wild copse ...
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... soul Of all its music ! And I know a grove Of large extent , hard by a castle huge , Which the great lord inhabits not ; and so This grove is wild with tangling underwood , And the trim walks are broken up , and grass , Thin grass and ...
... soul Of all its music ! And I know a grove Of large extent , hard by a castle huge , Which the great lord inhabits not ; and so This grove is wild with tangling underwood , And the trim walks are broken up , and grass , Thin grass and ...
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... The world's rude furnace must thy blood refine , And many a gale of keenest woe be passed , Till every pulse beat true to airs divine , Till every limb obey the mounting soul , The mounting MAN'S PORTION IS TO DIE . 43.
... The world's rude furnace must thy blood refine , And many a gale of keenest woe be passed , Till every pulse beat true to airs divine , Till every limb obey the mounting soul , The mounting MAN'S PORTION IS TO DIE . 43.
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... soul , The mounting soul , the call by Jesus given . He who the stormy heart can so control , The laggard body soon will waft to Heaven . KEBLE . FOREST SCENE . I KNOW a forest vast and old , A shade so deep , so darkly green , That ...
... soul , The mounting soul , the call by Jesus given . He who the stormy heart can so control , The laggard body soon will waft to Heaven . KEBLE . FOREST SCENE . I KNOW a forest vast and old , A shade so deep , so darkly green , That ...
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... 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 touched . By Thee the various vegetative Tribes ...
... 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 touched . By Thee the various vegetative Tribes ...
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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.