Rosedale: A Story of Self-denial

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Poe & Hitchcock, 1864 - 410 oldal
 

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393. oldal - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show...
32. oldal - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
405. oldal - Almighty's view : Of her, ye virgins, learn obedience, When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces ! Bring her up to the high altar, that she may The sacred ceremonies there...
300. oldal - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
322. oldal - Yet more ! the billows and the depths have more ! High hearts and brave are gathered to thy breast ! They hear not now the booming waters roar, The battle-thunders will not break their rest. Keep thy red gold and gems, thou stormy grave...
11. oldal - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contained no tomb, — And glowing into day...
88. oldal - THERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee ; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me : When, as if its sound were causing The charmed ocean's pausing, The waves lie still and gleaming, And the lull'd winds seem dreaming, And the midnight moon is weaving Her bright chain o'er the deep ; Whose breast is gently heaving, As an infant's asleep : So the spirit bows before thee, To listen...
370. oldal - ... the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.
353. oldal - With eye awry, incurable, and wild, The laughing-stock of devils and of men, And by his guardian angel quite given up, — The miser, who with dust inanimate Held wedded intercourse.
7. oldal - But pauses oft, as winding rocks convey The still sweet fall of music far away...

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