How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the... Poetical works - Página 227por James Russell Lowell - 1890Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 páginas
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, THE HUMBLE-BEE. Ralph Waldo Emerson. BURLY, dozing humble-bee, Where thou art is clime for me. Let... | |
| Marshman William Hazen - 1895 - 300 páginas
...could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. 3. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teach est me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 108 páginas
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. 20 WHEN oaken woods with buds are pink, And new-come birds each morning sing, When fickle May on Summer's... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 530 páginas
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's nndoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEER This poem was printed... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 132 páginas
...clearly all day long, 40 And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing VI. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam BO Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret sho Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 páginas
...ears. When birds and flowers and I WCR happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem. When thon, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me...in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondroD secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdon look On all... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 páginas
...there than we suspect, deeper feelings, greater thoughts, nobler faiths and hopes. As Lowell said : — "Each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we hut pay the love we owe. And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted years, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, no common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in... | |
| John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 páginas
...bitterest ache, And ope heaven's portals, which are near us still. Yea, nearer ever than the gates pf ill. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. But let me read thy lesson right or no, Of one good gift from thee my heart is sure ; Old I shall never... | |
| Walter Learned - 1897 - 338 páginas
...which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I ;... | |
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