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... River Charles . Blind Bartimeus The Goblet of Life Maidenhood . Excelsior . A Gleam of Sunshine . The Belfry of Bruges . Carillon The Arsenal at Springfield . Nuremberg Rain in Summer The Norman Baron 117 118 118 120 121 122 123 125 126 ...
... River Charles . Blind Bartimeus The Goblet of Life Maidenhood . Excelsior . A Gleam of Sunshine . The Belfry of Bruges . Carillon The Arsenal at Springfield . Nuremberg Rain in Summer The Norman Baron 117 118 118 120 121 122 123 125 126 ...
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... rivers that water the woodlands , Darkened by shadows of earth , but reflecting an image of heaven ? Waste are those pleasant farms , and the farmers for ever departed ! Scattered like dust and leaves , when the mighty blasts of October ...
... rivers that water the woodlands , Darkened by shadows of earth , but reflecting an image of heaven ? Waste are those pleasant farms , and the farmers for ever departed ! Scattered like dust and leaves , when the mighty blasts of October ...
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... rivers , and piling huge shadows together . Broader and ever broader it gleamed on the roofs of the village , Gleamed on the sky and the sea , and the ships that lay in the roadstead . Columns of shining smoke uprose , and flashes of ...
... rivers , and piling huge shadows together . Broader and ever broader it gleamed on the roofs of the village , Gleamed on the sky and the sea , and the ships that lay in the roadstead . Columns of shining smoke uprose , and flashes of ...
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... river . Such was the sound that arose on the night , as the herd and the horses Broke through their folds and fences , and madly rushed o'er the meadows . Overwhelmed with the sight , yet speechless , the priest and the maiden Gazed on ...
... river . Such was the sound that arose on the night , as the herd and the horses Broke through their folds and fences , and madly rushed o'er the meadows . Overwhelmed with the sight , yet speechless , the priest and the maiden Gazed on ...
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... River , Past the Ohio shore , and past the mouth of the Wabash , Into the golden stream of the broad and swift Mississippi , Floated a cumbrous boat , that was rowed by Acadian boatmen . It was a band of exiles : a raft , as it were ...
... River , Past the Ohio shore , and past the mouth of the Wabash , Into the golden stream of the broad and swift Mississippi , Floated a cumbrous boat , that was rowed by Acadian boatmen . It was a band of exiles : a raft , as it were ...
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Acadian Alden Angel answered arrows beautiful behold bells beneath birds breath bright clouds cried CUTH Dacotahs dark dead death door dream earth ELSIE Evangeline eyes face father fear feet Filled flowers forest gazed gleam golden grave hand hast hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha Hoheneck holy John Alden Kenabeek King Olaf land Laughing Laughing Water light listen little Hiawatha look Lord loud LUCIF maiden meadow Miles Standish Minnesinger Mondamin monk moon morning Mudjekeewis night Nokomis o'er Osseo passed Pau-Puk-Keewis Plymouth prayer Prince Priscilla river rose round sail Salern Sandalphon sang seemed shadows shining Sigrid the Haughty silent singing sleep song Song of Hiawatha sorrow soul sound spake stand stars stood strong sunshine sweet Tharaw thee thought unto village voice walls wampum wandered wave Wenonah whispered wigwam wild wind words youth
Popular passages
Page 144 - The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 113 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each, burning deed and thought.
Page 62 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great : Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 45 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 484 - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Page 286 - A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 93 - He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat, Against the stinging blast ; He cut a rope from a broken spar, And bound her to the mast. " O father ! I hear the church-bells ring, O, say, what may it be?
Page 92 - IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South.
Page 49 - Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
Page 45 - There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. 'Shall I have nought that is fair?' saith he, 'Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again.