Lays and Legends: Or, Ballads of the New WorldSaunders and Otley, 1851 - 166 pages |
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... birds were fair as flowers , and the flowers as fair as gems , And the forests ' floors were paved with fruit , dropped from a myriad stems . " I saw its groves and its silver streams , and it seemed to my dazzled eyes Like the glimpse ...
... birds were fair as flowers , and the flowers as fair as gems , And the forests ' floors were paved with fruit , dropped from a myriad stems . " I saw its groves and its silver streams , and it seemed to my dazzled eyes Like the glimpse ...
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... bird soars from his coral bough , Who dives as deep as he can fly , beneath the white reef's brow . And with the morn the wind sinks down , and birds on the rigging rest , They seem belated wanderers from some land in the distant west ...
... bird soars from his coral bough , Who dives as deep as he can fly , beneath the white reef's brow . And with the morn the wind sinks down , and birds on the rigging rest , They seem belated wanderers from some land in the distant west ...
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... birds of land more frequent hurry by ; Sad evening comes , and its cloudy pall blots daylight from the sky ; Another day , and thicker drifts the floating sea of weed , And the bark ploughs on its hopeless course through shoals of the ...
... birds of land more frequent hurry by ; Sad evening comes , and its cloudy pall blots daylight from the sky ; Another day , and thicker drifts the floating sea of weed , And the bark ploughs on its hopeless course through shoals of the ...
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... bird's notes ; ' Tis the savage hum of the Indian drum , On the troubled air that floats On Tobasco's plain , thick as northern rain , Or the sands on yon ocean's beach , With a burning gleam , the spear heads beam As far as the eye can ...
... bird's notes ; ' Tis the savage hum of the Indian drum , On the troubled air that floats On Tobasco's plain , thick as northern rain , Or the sands on yon ocean's beach , With a burning gleam , the spear heads beam As far as the eye can ...
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... bird ; Their banner flies and seems to rise , As if cheered by the shouts it heard . Wield the war axe well , though the Indian shell With the roar of the storm may vie— Cleave the plumed head , with their own blood red Their feathered ...
... bird ; Their banner flies and seems to rise , As if cheered by the shouts it heard . Wield the war axe well , though the Indian shell With the roar of the storm may vie— Cleave the plumed head , with their own blood red Their feathered ...
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Page viii - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 9 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 163 - Water with berries in't ; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o...
Page 2 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 152 - Heralds the coming of the morn. Then with joy thou spreadest out All thy little flowers about, Where in holt or upon wold Smiles thy little eye of gold. When with clouds the heavens frown. Then thy little head bends down. Little weather-prophet...
Page 165 - ... certain, that, after they had driven us from Mexico, and slain above 850 of our soldiers and of the men of Narvaez, these beasts and snakes, who had been offered to their cruel idol to be in his company, were supported upon their flesh for many days. When these lions and tygers roared, and the jackals and foxes howled, and the snakes hissed, it was a grim thing to hear them, and it seemed like hell.
Page 153 - And when sinks the king of light. Thy violet eyes with tears beam bright ; Till the stars, with softer beam, Like the sun's fair ehildren seem.
Page 163 - Thou strokst me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night. And then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities of the isle, The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile. Cursed be I that did so!
Page 165 - ... and they are the worst of all vipers; these were kept in cradles, and barrels, and earthen vessels upon feathers, and there they laid their eggs, and nursed up their snakelings, and they were fed with the bodies of the sacrificed and with dogs flesh.
Page 153 - Though with fury raging free They may shake the giant tree, Whatsoever be their power. They will spare the little flower. E'en the bud that gems the sod, Overshadow'd is by God.