Lily of the valley, Volume 1

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Página 240 - Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer Into every bare inlet and creek and bay...
Página 72 - Il est si beau, l'enfant, avec son doux sourire, Sa douce bonne foi, sa voix qui veut tout dire, Ses pleurs vite apaisés, Laissant errer sa vue étonnée et ravie, Offrant de toutes parts sa jeune âme à la vie Et sa bouche aux baisers.
Página 240 - Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green ; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell ; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing ; The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing. That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by...
Página 122 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Página 193 - O, there is nothing holier in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love — the first fluttering of its silken wings — the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to destroy ! Old histories tell us, that the great Emperor Charlemagne stamped his edicts with the hilt of his sword.
Página 33 - While Memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew...
Página 144 - For malice will with joy the lie receive, Report, and what it wishes true, believe. With care conceal whate'er defects you find, To all her faults seem like a lover blind. Naked Andromeda when Perseus view'd, 710 He saw her faults, but yet pronounc'd them good.
Página 193 - Here, sweet extremes, alone, can truly bless : The virtue of a lover is excess. A maid unask'd may own a well-placed flame ; Not loving first, but loving wrong is shame.
Página 240 - And take some syrup after; so do I, To put all relish from my memory Of parting, drown it, in the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. This makes me, mistress, that sometimes by stealth, Under another name, I take your health, And turn the ceremonies of those nights I give, or owe my friends...
Página 96 - Very true, ma'am ! and yet I vow and protest, there's more plague than pleasure with a secret; especially if a body mayn't mention it to four or five of one's particular acquaintance.

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