Stray Thoughts in Prose and Verse. Spring Blossoms

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Strana 15 - There have been tears and breaking hearts for thee, And mine were nothing, had I such to give; But when I stood beneath the fresh green tree, Which living waves where thou didst cease to live, And saw around me the wide field revive With fruits and fertile promise, and the Spring Come forth her work of gladness to contrive, With all her reckless birds upon the wing, [(7•) I turn'd from all she brought to those she could not bring.
Strana 18 - Babe leaps up on his Mother's arm: — I hear, I hear, with joy I hear! — But there's a Tree, of many, one, A single Field which I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone: The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Strana 17 - If there be one who need bemoan His kindred laid in earth, The household hearts that were his own; It is the man of mirth. 'My days, my Friend, are almost gone, My life has been approved, And many love me! but by none Am I enough beloved.
Strana 16 - was well begun, Then, from thy breast what thought, Beneath so beautiful a sun, So sad a sigh has brought...
Strana 17 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Strana 32 - See the soft green willow springing Where the waters gently pass, Every way her free arms flinging O'er the moist and reedy grass. Long ere Winter blasts are fled, See her tipped with vernal red, And her kindly flower displayed Ere her leaf can cast a shade.
Strana 22 - I doubt worldly troubles have increased it; 'tis now spring, and all the pleasures of it displease me; every other tree blossoms, and I wither; I grow older, and not better; my strength diminisheth, and my load grows heavier; and yet I would fain be or do something, but that I cannot tell what is no wonder in this time of my sadness; for to...
Strana 38 - Israel, rebuke the unbelief of thy church respecting the conversion of children, even 83 as thou didst rebuke thy disciples when they would have hindered such from coming to thee. Let none despise these little ones ; for thou hast warned us that their angels do always behold the face of their Father in heaven. O may thy saints on earth be instruments of leading them to Christ, and training them as plants of righteousness, whose leaf shall not wither, and who will bring forth the fruits of grace....

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