Poems, 91. numberMacmillan, 1870 - 143 pages |
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... Look what a beam from the Beloved shining ! Look what a night of treasonable men ! What was their tale of some one on a summit , Looking , I think , upon the endless sea , - One with a fate , and sworn to overcome it , One who was ...
... Look what a beam from the Beloved shining ! Look what a night of treasonable men ! What was their tale of some one on a summit , Looking , I think , upon the endless sea , - One with a fate , and sworn to overcome it , One who was ...
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... look sunward , and with faces golden Speak to each other softly of a hope ? Can it be true , the grace He is declaring ? Oh let us trust Him , for his words are fair ! Man , what is this , and why art thou despairing ? God shall forgive ...
... look sunward , and with faces golden Speak to each other softly of a hope ? Can it be true , the grace He is declaring ? Oh let us trust Him , for his words are fair ! Man , what is this , and why art thou despairing ? God shall forgive ...
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... Looks for a help , and findeth not , and raises High for a moment melancholy hands ; Then the sad ship , to her own funeral flaring , Holds him no longer in her arms , for he Simple and strong and desolate and daring Leaps to the great ...
... Looks for a help , and findeth not , and raises High for a moment melancholy hands ; Then the sad ship , to her own funeral flaring , Holds him no longer in her arms , for he Simple and strong and desolate and daring Leaps to the great ...
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... Look what a company of constellations ! Say can the sky so many lights contain ? Hath the great earth these endless generations ? Are there so many purified thro ' pain ? These thro ' all glow and eminence of glory Cry for a brighter ...
... Look what a company of constellations ! Say can the sky so many lights contain ? Hath the great earth these endless generations ? Are there so many purified thro ' pain ? These thro ' all glow and eminence of glory Cry for a brighter ...
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... look , and as I look on thee Find in thine eyes the answer and the end . And I am he who once in Nazareth , A child , nor knowing yet the prophet's woe , In childly fashion sought thee , and even then Perceived a mute withdrawal , open ...
... look , and as I look on thee Find in thine eyes the answer and the end . And I am he who once in Nazareth , A child , nor knowing yet the prophet's woe , In childly fashion sought thee , and even then Perceived a mute withdrawal , open ...
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