Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like... The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Página 82por James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 507 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Than teaches! me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look Into the page of its unwritten book. 76 THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I suppose that very few casual readers... | |
| 1867 - 738 páginas
...How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, \\ In ii thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou tcachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look Into the page of its unwritten book. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I suppose that very few casual readers... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 páginas
...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me...gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 páginas
...flowers and I were happy peers. 54 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me...Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, arid could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 páginas
...gold, so common art! Thou teuchest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart. Since each relied* in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but |iay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of Gou's... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 páginas
...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me...graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should arise, Cold and white, to freeze your eyes, Some weak phantom, which your doubt... | |
| H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 páginas
...still, Yea, nearer ever than the gates of 1ll. 28 How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. THE LAW OF MERCY. 'Tis written with the pen of heavenly Love On every heart which... | |
| 1867 - 746 páginas
...peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou tcachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's nndoubting wisdom look 76 THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I suppose that very few casual readers of the... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1853 - 410 páginas
...say to this flower as Lowell did to another: — " How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, "When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me...its scanty gleam Of Heaven, and could some wondrous teaching show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these... | |
| 1854 - 362 páginas
...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. Barry Cornwall. DRETTY firstling of the year ! Herald of the host of flowers ! Hast thou left thy cavern... | |
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