Descriptive poems, miscellaneous pieces, scriptural, descriptive, biographical, and miscellaneous sonnets - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...Slumber beneath the mould, And the wind moans Round the grey stones Of the sleepers in death's fold. Hast seen it in a wreath, When beneath The glance of a blue-eyed child Shone out, and his laughter wild Rang like a bell, 'Till the sounding dell Answered the laughing child? Down in its native vale, Where the gale Rocks it each night to sleep; And where warm sunbeams creep At break of day, And the throstle's lay Wakes it from gentle sleep. There while the lark's glad song Floats along And fills all heaven's expanse, And the young leaflets dance: Unplucked, unpressed, It looks the best Beneath the blue expanse, HE dead, how calm they rest! how sound their sleep! Unvexed they lie: They reck not of the bootless tears we weep--The sighs we sigh, Their upturned faces, passionless and cold, Smile not nor frown When virtue lauds their fame, or censure bold "Would tread it down. The grasping tyrant who on other's wrongs Fed full his purse, Feels not the venom of his victims' tongues--Heeds not their curse. Such is our fate! the years shall come and go In endless round, And we shall be like those who rest below--Our sleep as sound. LOW dies the day, and the long shadows fall; The silent hosts Of flitting ghosts Beset my steps like spectres gaunt and tall. My life is waning, and across my way, Like a black pall, The shadows fall Deeper and deeper round my closing day. The dawn shall break, and nature's shadows flee In spectral train; But ne'er again Shall night depart, and morn return to me. Small Swings. ITTLE things together joining, Day by day fresh power gain; Weakest agencies combining, To a mighty strength attain. The stupendous works of Nature Are made up of smallest things; From creation's every feature Unity and beauty springs. Single...
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