The Courtship of Miles Standish: And Other PoemsTicknor and Fields, 1864 - 215 σελίδες |
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angels answered John Alden beautiful beheld Blue and gold boy's brave Wattawamat breath Cæsar Captain of Plymouth CHARLES CINQUE PORTS cloud Damascus dark dead death dreams Edition England errand Essays eyes feel feet fireside Flanders Flower forest friendship Gleamed graves hand haunted heard heart heaven HENRY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Illustrated Indian Jameson's Julius Cæsar land laughed Legend Letters light living long thoughts look Lord loud matchlock meadow Memoir Miles Standish mist night noble o'er ocean Papers pause phantom Philip Van Artevelde Poems Poetical prayer Priscilla Puritan maiden sail Sandalphon ships silent singing Sketches Small 4to smile song sound spake speak Steel Portrait stood Story strange sunshine sweet swift Thereupon answered John thoughts of youth Ticknor and Fields Twice-Told Tales Vaud Victor Galbraith village voice walls wild wind wind's wonderful words youth are long
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Σελίδα 126 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
Σελίδα 42 - He had attended the sick, with a hand as gentle as woman's ; Somewhat hasty and hot, he could not deny it, and headstrong, Stern as a soldier might be, but hearty, and placable always, Not to be laughed at and scorned, because he was little of stature ; For he was great of heart, magnanimous, courtly, courageous ; Any woman in Plymouth, nay any woman in England, Might be happy and proud to be called the wife of Miles Standish!
Σελίδα 165 - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Σελίδα 167 - Where they in battle died. And the sound of that mournful song Goes through me with a thrill: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Σελίδα 137 - Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires ; The struggle of the instinct that enjoys, And the more noble instinct that aspires.
Σελίδα 32 - Seated beside her wheel, and the carded wool like a snow-drift Piled at her knee, her white hands feeding the ravenous spindle, While with her foot on the treadle she guided the wheel in its motion. Open wide on her lap lay the well-worn psalmbook of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the music together, Rough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churchyard, Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses.
Σελίδα 9 - Scouring of the White Horse. Or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk. By the Author of
Σελίδα 177 - Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion, Nor the march of the encroaching city, Drives an exile From the hearth of his ancestral homestead. We may build more splendid habitations, Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures, But we cannot Buy with gold the old associations...
Σελίδα 201 - Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks 1 Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
Σελίδα 54 - God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting, Then had sifted the wheat, as the living seed of a nation...