The poetical worksHoughton Mifflin, 1904 |
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ÆSCHYLUS art thou beauty beneath bliss blood Caucasus cloud dark dead pool dear death deep doom doth dread dream drops Dryad earth eternal eyes face faith fall fear feel flowers forever Freedom Ganymede GARTH JONES gleam gloom glow God's golden green grew hands happy hast hath hear heart heaven holy hope Hunger and Cold hushed idlesse JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL leap leaves life's light lonely look love's mighty mighty heart Mordred murmur Nature naught neath never Nevermore night o'er peace pine poet's poets poor prophet Rhocus Rosaline round scorn seemed shadow shalt Sheemah sight silence sing Sir Launfal smile snow song sorrow soul spirit stars stood summer sunshine sweet thee thine things thou art thought thrill throne toil trembling true truth Vinland voice wander waves weary WENDELL PHILLIPS wind wings word youth
Popular passages
Page 187 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side...
Page 18 - Yet in herself she dwelleth not, Although no home were half so fair, No simplest duty is forgot, Life hath no dim and lowly spot That doth not in her sunshine share. IV. She doeth little kindnesses, Which most leave undone, or despise, For naught that sets one heart at ease, And giveth happiness or peace, Is low-esteemed in her eyes.
Page 187 - ... twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand. Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 't is Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.
Page 130 - It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century; — But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men...
Page 144 - No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him ; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil I The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set.
Page 189 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 63 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own : Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes, Then will pure light around thy path be shed, And thou wilt never more be sad and lone.
Page 188 - Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 48 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Page 304 - Earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten...