Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 pages |
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... Tree , 118 119 The Stranger's Gift , 120 Thy beauty fades , Beauty , 121 122 The Wind - Flower , 123 The Robin , 124 The Columbine , 125 The New Birth , 126 The Son , 127 In Him we live , 128 Enoch , 129 The Morning Watch , 130 The ...
... Tree , 118 119 The Stranger's Gift , 120 Thy beauty fades , Beauty , 121 122 The Wind - Flower , 123 The Robin , 124 The Columbine , 125 The New Birth , 126 The Son , 127 In Him we live , 128 Enoch , 129 The Morning Watch , 130 The ...
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... Trees of Life , 143 The Spirit , 144 The Presence , 145 The Dead , 146 I was sick and in prison , 147 The Violet , 148 The Heart , 149 The Robe , 150 Life , 151 The War , 152 The Grave Yard , 153 Thy Brother's Blood , 154 The Jew , 155 ...
... Trees of Life , 143 The Spirit , 144 The Presence , 145 The Dead , 146 I was sick and in prison , 147 The Violet , 148 The Heart , 149 The Robe , 150 Life , 151 The War , 152 The Grave Yard , 153 Thy Brother's Blood , 154 The Jew , 155 ...
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... tree which shaded them . It is pleasant , for it makes us , as it were , companions of their earthly presence ; the same heaven is above us , and the same earth is beneath us , and we feel ourselves sharers , for a time , in the same ...
... tree which shaded them . It is pleasant , for it makes us , as it were , companions of their earthly presence ; the same heaven is above us , and the same earth is beneath us , and we feel ourselves sharers , for a time , in the same ...
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... tree ; and , as they are but different results of the same great vital energy in nature , we cannot but feel that the works of genius are as much a growth as are the productions of the material world . Such minds act as if all else but ...
... tree ; and , as they are but different results of the same great vital energy in nature , we cannot but feel that the works of genius are as much a growth as are the productions of the material world . Such minds act as if all else but ...
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... , real events ; which you could no more alter or improve , than you can the branch of a tree , or the visible realities themselves . Such being the foundations on which his characters rest , we may see SHAKSPEARE . 61.
... , real events ; which you could no more alter or improve , than you can the branch of a tree , or the visible realities themselves . Such being the foundations on which his characters rest , we may see SHAKSPEARE . 61.
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Page 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...