 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem. When thon, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 132 pages
...VI. 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 BO Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret sho Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1897 - 580 pages
...ears When birds and flowers and I were , happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thon, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou tcachest me...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pages
...ill. 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...we owe, And with a child's undoubting 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... | |
 | Walter Learned - 1897 - 338 pages
...peers. 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...we owe. And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. THE SANDPIPER. ACROSS the narrow beach... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest rue to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...peers. 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...in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrom secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 pages
...peers. 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...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEEE. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not... | |
 | 1899 - 260 pages
...peers. 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...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. The Dandelion WITH locks of gold to-day... | |
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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 love we owe, And with a child's undoubting... 
