A Story of Life on the IsthmusPutnam, 1853 - 215 strán (strany) |
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Strana 13 - But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium ' of desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but rest ; a fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
Strana 29 - And now I'm in the world alone, Upon the wide, wide sea: But why should I for others groan, When none will sigh for me? Perchance my dog will whine in vain, Till fed by stranger hands; But long ere I come back again He'd tear me where he stands.
Strana 200 - ... wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home...
Strana 54 - Thou liftest up thy solemn voice To every wind and sky, And all our earth's green shores rejoice In that one harmony. It fills the noontide's calm profound. The sunset's heaven of gold; And the still midnight hears the sound, Even as first it roll'd.
Strana 159 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep...
Strana 91 - Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.
Strana 54 - Are with her eagles flown. And mute the Moorish horn, that rang O'er stream and mountain free. And the hymn the leagued Crusaders sang, Hath died in Galilee.
Strana 193 - Jesus, and, quoting the words of our Saviour, " Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven," added, " He will take care of you, and take you in his arms, dear Annie.
Strana 67 - Economy is the moral of the next. It is worth all the Tracts of the Cheap Repository ! — When I was a little boy, I lived by myself, All the bread and cheese I got, I put it on the shelf.
Strana 13 - This makes the madmen who have made men mad By their contagion, conquerors and kings, Founders of sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, bards, statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs...