Songs of Three CenturiesJohn Greenleaf Whittier |
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... wish them not reply , For thou must give the lie . Tell age it daily wasteth , Tell honor how it alters , Tell beauty how she blasteth , Tell favor how she falters : And as they shall reply , Give every one the lie . Tell wit how much ...
... wish them not reply , For thou must give the lie . Tell age it daily wasteth , Tell honor how it alters , Tell beauty how she blasteth , Tell favor how she falters : And as they shall reply , Give every one the lie . Tell wit how much ...
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... wishes are but few , All easy to fulfil ; I make the limits of my power The bounds unto my will . I have no hopes but one , Which is of heavenly reign : Effects attained , or not desired , All lower hopes refrain . I feel no care of ...
... wishes are but few , All easy to fulfil ; I make the limits of my power The bounds unto my will . I have no hopes but one , Which is of heavenly reign : Effects attained , or not desired , All lower hopes refrain . I feel no care of ...
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... yet , in honor , wealth , Or pleasure of the sense , contentment find ? Who ever ceased to wish when he had wealth ? Or having wisdom was not vexed in mind ? SIR HENRY WOTTON . But silly we , like foolish THE SOUL CONTENTMENT.
... yet , in honor , wealth , Or pleasure of the sense , contentment find ? Who ever ceased to wish when he had wealth ? Or having wisdom was not vexed in mind ? SIR HENRY WOTTON . But silly we , like foolish THE SOUL CONTENTMENT.
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... wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek for more ; I like the plain , I climb no hill ; In greatest storms I sit on shore , And laugh at them that toil in vain To get what must be lost again . I kiss not where I wish to kill ...
... wish but what I have at will ; I wander not to seek for more ; I like the plain , I climb no hill ; In greatest storms I sit on shore , And laugh at them that toil in vain To get what must be lost again . I kiss not where I wish to kill ...
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... wish to see it still , and prove What ways we may deserve ; We court , we praise , we more than love , We are not grieved to serve . EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH L. H. WOULDST thou hear what man can say In a little ? -reader , stay ! Underneath ...
... wish to see it still , and prove What ways we may deserve ; We court , we praise , we more than love , We are not grieved to serve . EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH L. H. WOULDST thou hear what man can say In a little ? -reader , stay ! Underneath ...
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Page 100 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 45 - No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,' Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke...
Page 56 - He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 56 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven : As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 40 - Plenteous grace with thee is found, Grace to cover all my sin; Let the healing streams abound, Make and keep me pure within. Thou of life the fountain art; Freely let me take of thee; Spring thou up within my heart, Rise to all eternity.
Page 121 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 68 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be. Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither; Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 174 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 100 - Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound — Better than all treasures That in books are found — Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then — as I am listening...
Page 157 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart ; — Go forth, under the open sky, and list To nature's teachings, while from all around, — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air, — Comes a still voice...