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" My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thee ; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song, Who from the dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news... "
Wild Flowers - Page 119
by Anne Pratt - 1853
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 66-67

740 pages
...dark oak-tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long ; And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven,...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Than teaches! me...
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

1867 - 738 pages
...dark oak-tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long ; And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven,...he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, AVhen birds and flowers and 1 were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, \\ In ii thou,...
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Poems

James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven,...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me...
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Garden Walks with the Poets

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 358 pages
...dark oak tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard" an angel sing With news from heaven,...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. 54 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listen'd as if I heard an arigcl sing With news from heaven, which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted cars, When birds and (lowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou,...
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The Illustrated Magazine, Volumes 23-24

1867 - 744 pages
...dark oak-tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long ; And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven,...which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted cars, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou,...
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The Testimony of the Poets

Epes Sargent - 1854 - 374 pages
...dark old tree Beside the door sung clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from Heaven,...ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. Thou art the type of those meek charities Which make up half the nobleness of life, Those cheap delights...
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Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of ...

James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
...dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Volume 1

James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How...
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The Continental Monthly, Volume 4

1863 - 774 pages
...dark old tree Beside the door, sang clearly all day long, And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted cars, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. 572...
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