The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Τόμος 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 |
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angels beauty beneath bird bless blind bloom blow breath calm Christ cloud creed dangerous light dark dear death divine dread dream earth Eternal Evermore eyes face faith fall Father fear feel feet flowers gift glad Glad song God's grace gray green HAMPTON BEACH hand hath hear heard heart heaven hills hope hope and faith human JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER knew leaves life's light lips living look Lord Love Divine Mahabharata metes and bounds morning Morrison mountain never night night is falling o'er pain pines praise pray prayer round shade shadow shining sight silence simple trust simple wishes sing skies smile snow song soul sound spirit star summer sunset sunshine sweet tender thee thine thou thought thy holy tread tree turn unto voice wall wall of night wandering waves weak weary wind wings wood words
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 138 - Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust, (Since He who knows our need is just,) That somehow, somewhere, meet we must.
Σελίδα 237 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.
Σελίδα 129 - O'er me, like a regal tent, Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent, Purple-curtained, fringed with gold, Looped in many a wind-swung fold; While for music came the play Of the pied frogs' orchestra; And, to light the noisy choir, Lit the fly his lamp of fire.
Σελίδα 132 - Father's sight; that care and trial seem at last through memory's sunset air, like mountain ranges overpast, in purple distance fair; that all the jarring notes of life seem blending in a psalm, and all the angles of its strife slow rounding into calm...
Σελίδα 155 - It touched the tangled golden curls, And brown eyes full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving.
Σελίδα 155 - Others shall sing the song, Others shall right the wrong, — Finish what I begin, And all I fail of win. What matter, I or they ? Mine or another's day, So the right word be said And life the sweeter made...
Σελίδα 288 - Father ! let Thy Spirit Be with me then to comfort and uphold ; No gate of pearl, no branch of palm I merit, Nor street of shining gold.
Σελίδα 155 - Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial; The charcoal frescos on its wall ; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went storming out to playing! Long years ago a winter sun Shone over it at setting; Lit up its western window panes, And low eaves
Σελίδα 141 - In moons and tides and weather wise, He read the clouds as prophecies, And foul or fair could well divine, By many an occult hint and sign, Holding the cunning-warded keys To all the woodcraft mysteries; Himself to Nature's heart so near That all her voices in his ear Of beast or bird had...
Σελίδα 138 - With mittened hands, and caps drawn low, To guard our necks and ears from snow, We cut the solid whiteness through. And, where the drift was deepest, made A tunnel walled and overlaid With dazzling crystal: we had read Of rare Aladdin's wondrous cave, And to our own his name we gave, With many a wish the luck were ours To test his lamp's supernal powers.