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... sleeping in the grove , He dreamed not of her love . Like Dian's kiss , unasked , unsought , Love gives itself ... sleep , And kisses the closed eyes Of him who slumbering lies . O weary hearts ! O slumbering eyes ! O drooping ...
... sleeping in the grove , He dreamed not of her love . Like Dian's kiss , unasked , unsought , Love gives itself ... sleep , And kisses the closed eyes Of him who slumbering lies . O weary hearts ! O slumbering eyes ! O drooping ...
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... Sleep and his twin - brother Death were represented as children reposing in the arms of Night . On various funeral monuments of the ancients the Genius of Death is sculptured as a beautiful youth , leaning on an invert- ed torch , in ...
... Sleep and his twin - brother Death were represented as children reposing in the arms of Night . On various funeral monuments of the ancients the Genius of Death is sculptured as a beautiful youth , leaning on an invert- ed torch , in ...
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... sleep side by side , and the hand of the child is in the mane of the tiger . Nations gaze till they forget the mur- derous work of war , and the garments rolled in blood . The whole earth is enlightened , and the star shines on till it ...
... sleep side by side , and the hand of the child is in the mane of the tiger . Nations gaze till they forget the mur- derous work of war , and the garments rolled in blood . The whole earth is enlightened , and the star shines on till it ...
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... sleep ? That there should exist the necessity for such sacrifices , what does it say to us concerning the structure of society , on this Christmas day , nearly two thousand years after the advent of Him , who said , " God is your father ...
... sleep ? That there should exist the necessity for such sacrifices , what does it say to us concerning the structure of society , on this Christmas day , nearly two thousand years after the advent of Him , who said , " God is your father ...
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... sleep had mocked and cursed , But he had left them long before The vision on their souls had burst . And underneath the sod he lay , Now all bedued with fruitful tears ; And they could only deck the tomb That told of his neglected years ...
... sleep had mocked and cursed , But he had left them long before The vision on their souls had burst . And underneath the sod he lay , Now all bedued with fruitful tears ; And they could only deck the tomb That told of his neglected years ...
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Page 270 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near...
Page 165 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock. The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 207 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
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Page 268 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 21 - Who was her father? Who was her mother? Had she a sister? Had she a brother? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet than all other?
Page 215 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 1 - 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 258 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side...
Page 250 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread : Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this