Poems of Infancy ...G. Coolidge, 1861 - 128 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 80 - I have nought that is fair?" saith he; "Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.
Página 80 - The Reaper said, and smiled : Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Página 43 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon...
Página 30 - Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side, Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm Fill up the interspersed vacancies And momentary pauses of the thought ! My Babe so beautiful ! it thrills my heart With tender gladness, thus to look at thee...
Página 79 - I told you that Almighty power Could break that withered shell, And show you, in a future hour, Something would please you well. Look at the chrysalis, my love, — An empty shell it lies ; — Now raise your wondering glance above, To where yon insect flies...
Página 56 - But the Kitten, how she starts, Crouches, stretches, paws, and darts! First at one, and then its fellow Just as light and just as yellow; There are many now now one Now they stop and there are none What intenseness of desire In her upward eye of fire!
Página 119 - The steep and rugged path to try, Though sweet the shepherd calls and sings, And seared below the pastures lie, — Till in his arms their lambs he takes, Along the dizzy verge to go, Then, heedless of the rifts and breaks, They follow on, o'er rock and snow. And in those pastures, lifted fair, More dewy soft than lowland mead, The shepherd drops his tender care, And sheep and lambs together feed.
Página 87 - THE summer sun was sinking With a mild light, calm and mellow ; It shone on my little boy's bonny cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow. The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and tender ; And my little boy's eyes, while he heard the song, Smiled with a sweet soft splendor.
Página 118 - After our child's untroubled breath Up to the Father took its way, And on our home the shade of Death Like a long twilight haunting lay, And friends came round, with us to weep Her little spirit's swift remove, The story of the Alpine sheep Was told to us by one we love.
Página 63 - Rule kindly, Tenderly over thy kingdom fair, For we that love, ah! we love so blindly, Philip, my king.