The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 - 341 oldal

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271. oldal - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
54. oldal - Dear girl, her name he dared not speak, But, as the song grew louder, Something upon the soldier's cheek Washed off the stains of powder. Beyond the darkening ocean burned The bloody sunset's embers, While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers.
18. oldal - From the Desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Under thy window I stand, And the midnight hears my cry: I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
127. oldal - I think he loved the spring : not that he cared for flowers : most men Think such things foolishness, — but we were first acquainted then, One spring : the next he spoke his mind ; the third I was his wife, And in the spring (it happened so) our children entered life.
54. oldal - They sang of love, and not of fame ; Forgot was Britain's glory: Each heart recalled a different name, But all sang "Annie Laurie.
59. oldal - Science, with their dreams superb, Replace thine ancient ease. The marble, sleeping in thy mountains now, Shall live in sculptures rare; Thy native oak shall crown the sage's brow, — Thy bay, the poet's hair. Thy tawny hills shall bleed their purple wine, Thy valleys yield their oil; And Music, with her eloquence divine, Persuade thy sons to toil. Till Hesper, as he trims his silver beam, No happier land shall see, And Earth shall find her old Arcadian dream Restored again in thee!
128. oldal - A holy strength upon my heart, and I could say the same. I used to blush when he came near, but then I showed no sign ; With all the meeting looking on, I held his hand in mine. It seemed my bashfulness was gone, now I was his for life: Thee knows the feeling, Hannah, — thee, too, hast been a wife. As home we rode, I saw no fields look half so green as ours ; The woods were coming into leaf, the meadows full of flowers ; The neighbors met us in the lane, and every face was kind, — 'Tis strange...
72. oldal - shouted Bernal, full fiercely, And " Back ! " shouted Pablo, in wrath, As his mule halted, startled and shrinking, On the perilous line of the path. The roar of devouring surges Came up from the breakers...
72. oldal - The pescador, out in his shallop, Gathering his harvest so wide, Sees the dim bulk of the headland Loom over the waste of the tide ; He sees, like a white thread, the pathway Wind round on the terrible wall, Where the faint, moving speck of the rider Seems hovering close to its fall.
128. oldal - It is not right to wish for death ; the Lord disposes best. His Spirit comes to quiet hearts, and fits them for His rest ; And that He halved our little flock was merciful, I see : For Benjamin has two in heaven, and two are left with me.

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