The talking oakTicknor and Fields, 1855 |
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... youth , the spectre of himself ? If this were thus , if this , indeed , were all , Better the narrow brain , the stony heart , The staring eye glazed o'er with sapless days , The long mechanic pacings to and fro , The set LOVE AND DUTY.
... youth , the spectre of himself ? If this were thus , if this , indeed , were all , Better the narrow brain , the stony heart , The staring eye glazed o'er with sapless days , The long mechanic pacings to and fro , The set LOVE AND DUTY.
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... better than his dog , a little dearer than his horse . What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed ... Better thou wert dead before me , though I slew thee with my hand ! Better thou and I were lying , hidden from the ...
... better than his dog , a little dearer than his horse . What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed ... Better thou wert dead before me , though I slew thee with my hand ! Better thou and I were lying , hidden from the ...
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Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. Better thou and I were lying , hidden from the heart's disgrace , Rolled in one another's arms , embrace . and silent in a last Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth ! Cursed be ...
Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson. Better thou and I were lying , hidden from the heart's disgrace , Rolled in one another's arms , embrace . and silent in a last Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth ! Cursed be ...
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... better men should perish one by one , Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons . Forward , forward let us range . Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of ...
... better men should perish one by one , Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons . Forward , forward let us range . Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of ...
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... better not to be ? " Then to the still small voice I said : " Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made . " To which the voice did urge reply : 66 To - day I saw the dragon - fly Come from the wells where he did lie ...
... better not to be ? " Then to the still small voice I said : " Let me not cast in endless shade What is so wonderfully made . " To which the voice did urge reply : 66 To - day I saw the dragon - fly Come from the wells where he did lie ...
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Page 37 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing hands ; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 35 - Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade. Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of time; When the centuries behind me like a fruitful land reposed; When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed; When I dipt into the future far as human eye could see. Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be...
Page 31 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, ^ Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 207 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 35 - Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time...
Page 45 - In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Page 46 - Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Page 36 - Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, 'My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee.
Page 99 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 31 - I am become a name For always roaming with a hungry heart. Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments Myself not least, but...