PoemsC. Van Benthuysen & Company, 1845 - 128 páginas |
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Página viii - Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Página ii - LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by CLARK, A.USTIN & SMITH, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. BY C. A" 15 Vande\«-|ita;-Nt v .*'Uetf Ys 10 THOMAS C.
Página 33 - THE Soldier Sage in peaceful sleep Has bowed his honored head, But still his deeds and words we keep Secure. He is not dead. His fearless heart, his iron will, His earnest love of truth, They guide the acts of Freemen still And live in changeless youth.
Página 46 - Oh Life is joy? Its pulses play So buoyantly and warm. The earth, the air, the ocean spray, The quiet hills, the crowded way, With animation swarm. The insect in the sunset beam, The finny tenant of the stream, The cattle grazing on the hill, And man, who moulds them to his will, In sun and sky, in earth and air, A common lot rejoice to share— A common race—its goal is nigh, They flourish, falter, fade and die.
Página 12 - O'er earth will find thee at his side. And while he sends in cadence clear His message to the heedless ear, Thine is the mission from on high To hold it to the steadfast eye. Then speed the Press! It is the heart From which the mental pulse is fed; Then speed the Press ! Its throbbings dart Where all would else be cold and dead.
Página 47 - Oh Life is Love ! Before the light Diffused its cheerful bloom, It brooded in creative might Upon the boundless mists of night, And warmed the murky gloom. The Life that paints the herb of earth, Gave Seraphim celestial birth. All Life is One ! He fans the whole Who lighted up thy torch, my soul ! A bright career hast thou to run, But—there is Death for thee to shun.
Página 10 - In blank despiir, a spray of hope, — This is thy mission to thy kind, Thou mighty Mercury of Mind. What though thy torch be often fed From fanes where Falsehood sits enshrined ; And poison mingles with the bread Thou givest to the hungered mind ; What though the Press prolific teems With idle trash and skeptic...
Página 11 - twill take— But strike ! thy arm shall help to mould This mental mass, no longer cold. "Who sent thee forth ! Thou herald ray Of dawning brightness, which so soon Has taught us that was far from day Which boasting Athens thought was noon ! Was it from Faustus...
Página 128 - Miss Bessie a very delightful companion, and I have no doubt but that the time passed every morning in her society will be very profitable, as well as agreeable to you.
Página 34 - His grateful country long has sealed His service with its praise, And all the honors earth could yield Adorned his latest days. He rests from all his toils and cares ; His high unsullied brow, That never turned from duty, wears A brighter laurel now.