| 1849 - 668 oldal
...number of ' Miscellaneous' lyrics. Mr. WHITTIER introduces his volume -with this modest and felicitous ' Proem :' * I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly...quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; 1 feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad still... | |
| 1849 - 638 oldal
...one misht be proud to have written, and which my one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I lore the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages...freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To brealhe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy... | |
| 1849 - 612 oldal
...melodious laye Which softly melt the ages through, The Bonys of SPENSER'S golden days, Arcudiim HIDNEV'S silvery phra.se. Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. ' Yet vainly in my quirt hours To brent ho their marvellous notée I try; I feel them, ae the leaves and flowers ' In... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 oldal
...as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, iSth, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. 1 LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To hreathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 422 oldal
...not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMESBURY, i8th, 3d Mo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning daw. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves... | |
| 1849 - 636 oldal
...stanzas, which any one might be proud to have written, and which ID; one will surely be pleased to read. ' PROEM. I love the old melodious lays Which softly...time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my qniet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; 1 feel them, as the leaves and t'owcrs In silence... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 oldal
...Heaven ! As the key-note of Whittier's poetry, we might take his own quaint and beautiful lines : — I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadia Sidney's silver phrase, Sprinkling o'er the noon of Time with freshest morning dew. Whittier's... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 oldal
...to say that its subject is not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. j. aw PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly...phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest ifccrning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 oldal
...necessary to say that its subjeft is not such as the writer would have chosen at an ' sequent period. JG W PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. The songs... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 420 oldal
...not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. JGW AMEsnmor, IStliSd mo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly...melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden daya, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet,... | |
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