The Vision of Sir LaunfalH.M. Caldwell Company, 1900 - 148 páginas |
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alms beauty beneath bird blessing bliss blithesome blue Bobolink boughs breast breath breeze castle Changeling clime cloud creeps Dandelion dear deep doth dream droop drops Dryad dust earth evermore eyes faint faith fall feel flap flow flowers gate gives gleam glooms glow gold golden grass gray Greece green gull happy hath hear Heareth the marinere heart heaven hills Holy Grail hope hush King Admetus leap leaves leper light lonely Look marinere Voices marshes murmur mused neath nectar never o'er quiet quivering rain rattling rest reverence Rhocus river round scrip sedge seemed shade shadow shine shore sight silence singing Sir Launfal slender slumberous smiles smooth snow song soul sparkling spirit stream summer sunshine sweet swells tempest thee thine thou art thunder tide tree tremulous Truth Twas wander waves weary wind wood
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Página 6 - Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies ; With our faint hearts the mountain strives ; Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite; And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
Página 121 - THE DANDELION Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer blooms may be.
Página 61 - GOD sends his teachers unto every age, To every clime, and every race of men, With revelations fitted to their growth And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of Truth Into the selfish rule of one sole race : Therefore each form of worship that hath swayed The life of man, and given it to grasp The master-key of knowledge, reverence, Infolds some germs of goodness and of right...
Página 7 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays...
Página 117 - THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.
Página 147 - Bursts crackling o'er the sun-parched roof; Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes, The white waves are tumbling, And, in one baffled roar, Like the toothless sea mumbling A rock-bristled shore, The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling, — Will silence return never more...
Página 15 - In his gilded mail, that flamed so bright It seemed the dark castle had gathered all Those shafts the fierce sun had shot over its wall In his siege of three hundred summers long...
Página 133 - Which in the poet's tropic heart bears flowers Whose fragrance fills the earth. Within the hearts of all men lie These promises of wider bliss, Which blossom into hopes that cannot die, In sunny hours like this. All that hath been majestical In life or death since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heart of man.
Página 128 - Men called him but a shiftless youth, In whom no good they saw ; And yet, unwittingly, in truth, They made his careless words their law. They knew not how he learned at all, For idly, hour by hour, He sat and watched the dead leaves fall, Or mused upon a common flower.
Página 69 - And, taking with blithe welcome whatsoe'er Chance gave of joy, was wholly bound in that, Like the contented peasant of a vale, Deemed it the world, and never looked beyond. So, haply meeting in the afternoon Some comrades who were playing at the dice, 100 He joined them, and forgot all else beside.