The Native Poets of Maine, Issue 288D. Bugbee & Company, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... shadows gleam . Portentious through the night . Upon its midnight battle - ground The spectral camp is seen , And , with a sorrowful , deep sound , Flows the River of Life between . No other voice , nor sound is there , In the army of ...
... shadows gleam . Portentious through the night . Upon its midnight battle - ground The spectral camp is seen , And , with a sorrowful , deep sound , Flows the River of Life between . No other voice , nor sound is there , In the army of ...
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... shadows , is not easy . Mr. Willis is one of the most fascinating writers in the English language and who , to - day , will remember anything of his productions but their excellences ? This letter will moisten eyes in widely - scat ...
... shadows , is not easy . Mr. Willis is one of the most fascinating writers in the English language and who , to - day , will remember anything of his productions but their excellences ? This letter will moisten eyes in widely - scat ...
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... shadows lift From my waked spirit airily and swift , And I could paint the bow Upon the bended heavens around me play Colours of such divinity to - day . ' Ha ! bind him on his back ! Look ! as Prometheus in my picture here ! Quick or ...
... shadows lift From my waked spirit airily and swift , And I could paint the bow Upon the bended heavens around me play Colours of such divinity to - day . ' Ha ! bind him on his back ! Look ! as Prometheus in my picture here ! Quick or ...
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... brow , And wish the shadows would faster creep , And long to go to thy quiet sleep . Well were it then if thine aching brow Were as free from sin and shame as now ! -- Well for thee , if thy lip could tell 5 NATHANIEL P. WILLIS . 49.
... brow , And wish the shadows would faster creep , And long to go to thy quiet sleep . Well were it then if thine aching brow Were as free from sin and shame as now ! -- Well for thee , if thy lip could tell 5 NATHANIEL P. WILLIS . 49.
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... shadows - faint with pain , ( d ) And yearning for the hours of quietness That follow the twilight . The fair morn Unfurls o'er Eastern hills her dolphin dyes ; But O majestic Eve , to thee I turn With heart enchanted , and undazzled ...
... shadows - faint with pain , ( d ) And yearning for the hours of quietness That follow the twilight . The fair morn Unfurls o'er Eastern hills her dolphin dyes ; But O majestic Eve , to thee I turn With heart enchanted , and undazzled ...
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Page 22 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted...
Page 22 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ Himself doth rule.
Page 14 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 16 - His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low.
Page 28 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 2 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 18 - I HAVE read, in some old marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague. Beside the Moldau's rushing stream, With the wan moon overhead, There stood, as in an awful dream, The army of the dead.
Page 26 - ... Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device Excelsior ! There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! POEMS ON SLAVERY.
Page 25 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior!
Page 20 - ALL houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors. We meet them at the doorway, on the stair, Along the passages they come and go, Impalpable impressions on the air, A sense of something moving to and fro. There are more guests at table than the hosts Invited ; the illuminated hall Is thronged with quiet, inoffensive ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall.