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... morning face and lustrous hair Breathes on me sudden ruin and despair . In any other guise , With any but this girlish depth of gaze , Your coming had not so unsealed and poured The dusty amphoras where I had stored The drippings of the ...
... morning face and lustrous hair Breathes on me sudden ruin and despair . In any other guise , With any but this girlish depth of gaze , Your coming had not so unsealed and poured The dusty amphoras where I had stored The drippings of the ...
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... Morning ; Where all things else could lure them on and on , Now here , now gone , - From bush to bush , from beckoning bough to bough , With bird - calls of Come Hither ! - Ah , but now , Now it is dusk . And from his heaven of mirth ...
... Morning ; Where all things else could lure them on and on , Now here , now gone , - From bush to bush , from beckoning bough to bough , With bird - calls of Come Hither ! - Ah , but now , Now it is dusk . And from his heaven of mirth ...
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... morning were their own ? Such union , in the lovely Girl maintained And her twin Brother , had the parent seen , Ere , pouncing like a ravenous bird of prey , Death in a moment parted them , and left The Mother , in her turns of anguish ...
... morning were their own ? Such union , in the lovely Girl maintained And her twin Brother , had the parent seen , Ere , pouncing like a ravenous bird of prey , Death in a moment parted them , and left The Mother , in her turns of anguish ...
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... morning steam with fever - laden breath ? Die , that in some distant river's veins the English blood may run- Mississippi , Yangtze , Ganges , Nile , Mac- kenzie , Amazon ? Ah ! you still must wait and suffer in a soli- tude untold ...
... morning steam with fever - laden breath ? Die , that in some distant river's veins the English blood may run- Mississippi , Yangtze , Ganges , Nile , Mac- kenzie , Amazon ? Ah ! you still must wait and suffer in a soli- tude untold ...
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... morning light , Or Lucifer had often warned them thence ; But in their glimmering orbs did glow , Until their Lord himself bespake , and bid them go . And though the shady gloom Had given day her room , The sun himself withheld his ...
... morning light , Or Lucifer had often warned them thence ; But in their glimmering orbs did glow , Until their Lord himself bespake , and bid them go . And though the shady gloom Had given day her room , The sun himself withheld his ...
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Page 43 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, ' Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Page 68 - But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 119 - And, sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissed me, And. pointing to the east, began to say: "Look on the rising sun: there God does live, And gives his light, and gives his heat away; And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. "And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud and like a shady grove.
Page 68 - But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace : She, crown'd with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing ; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
Page 44 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 46 - Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay ; So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore, " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,"* And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Page 167 - SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament...
Page 46 - When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, 75 The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile), Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here I would not trust my heart — the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.
Page 72 - The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.
Page 43 - Faithful remembrancer of one so dear, 0 welcome guest, though unexpected here! Who bidst me honour with an artless song, Affectionate, a mother lost so long. 1 will obey, not willingly alone, But gladly as the precept were her own: And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she.