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... calm settled on the face of the earth , as if Nature were weary of Day's strife : " Fair Star ! with calm repose and peace I hail thy vesper beam returning ; Thou seem'st to say that troubles cease In the calm sphere where thou art ...
... calm settled on the face of the earth , as if Nature were weary of Day's strife : " Fair Star ! with calm repose and peace I hail thy vesper beam returning ; Thou seem'st to say that troubles cease In the calm sphere where thou art ...
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... calm of eventide has been extolled by a thousand poets , and yet it does not , he maintains , bring with it the far - reaching and sublime thoughts of the half - hour that precedes the rising of a sum- mer's sun . In the one case the ...
... calm of eventide has been extolled by a thousand poets , and yet it does not , he maintains , bring with it the far - reaching and sublime thoughts of the half - hour that precedes the rising of a sum- mer's sun . In the one case the ...
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... calm , With wife and daughter waiting my return , And eager with their welcome . That was life ! - An interest in the great world of life , A place for toil within a world of toil , And love for its reward . ' Amen ! ' I said , ' And ...
... calm , With wife and daughter waiting my return , And eager with their welcome . That was life ! - An interest in the great world of life , A place for toil within a world of toil , And love for its reward . ' Amen ! ' I said , ' And ...
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... calm blessings of rest ; ' Your cracksman , for instance , thinks night - time the best To break open a door , or the lid of a chest ; And the gipsy who close round your premises prowls To ransack your hen - roost and steal all your ...
... calm blessings of rest ; ' Your cracksman , for instance , thinks night - time the best To break open a door , or the lid of a chest ; And the gipsy who close round your premises prowls To ransack your hen - roost and steal all your ...
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... calm he awaited a final and a happy release . " His pen , the faithful companion of his troubles , as of his joys , still plied the Herculean tasks which habit had rendered not merely easy , but delightful to him . " Douce puissance de ...
... calm he awaited a final and a happy release . " His pen , the faithful companion of his troubles , as of his joys , still plied the Herculean tasks which habit had rendered not merely easy , but delightful to him . " Douce puissance de ...
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Asmodeus awake beauty bright called calm Clopin Trouillefou companions Coventry Patmore dark dawn dead dear death describes dread dreams E. S. Dallas eyes face fancy father fear feeling fire FIRE-GAZING friends gaze George Eliot gone grave grief happy Hartley Coleridge hear heart heaven hope Horace Walpole Ingoldsby Legends labour last words Leigh Hunt light living look Lord memory midnight mind morning mother musings never night NIGHT-STUDENTS noctambulism old age once pain picture pleasure poem poet rain rest round says seemed shadow sight silent Sir Walter Scott sleep smile solace sorrow soul Southey spirit stanza strange sweet tears tells terrors things Thomas Hood thou thought toil told turn twilight utter Victor Hugo voice waking walk wander Washington Irving watch weary wife William Sidney Walker wind window Wordsworth writes young
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Page 79 - Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day ? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 374 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 334 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know, At first sight, if the bird be flown ; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Page 352 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 64 - My horse moved on; hoof after hoof He raised, and never stopped : When down behind the cottage roof, At once, the bright moon dropped. What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! "O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!
Page 297 - And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are...
Page 315 - All along the valley, stream that flashest white, Deepening thy voice with the deepening of the night, All along the valley, where thy waters flow, I walk'd with one I loved two and thirty years ago. All along the valley while I walk'd today, The two and thirty years were a mist that rolls away; For all along the valley, down thy rocky bed Thy living voice to me...
Page 220 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 4 - Thus did the waters gleam, the mountains lower, To the rude Briton, when, in wolf-skin vest Here roving wild, he laid him down to rest On the bare rock, or through a leafy bower Looked ere his eyes were closed.
Page 273 - Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes...