 | 1876 - 294 oldal
...peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret s!to\v, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 470 oldal
...peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. WHAT MB. BOBINSON THINKS. GUVENER B. is a sensible man ; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 oldal
...peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, no common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all the living pages of God's book. JR LOWELL : To the Dandelion. Thou on my head in early youth didst... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 oldal
...How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teaehest mo to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom loot On all these living pages of God's book. JAMKS RreeET.L LOWELL. FLOWERS. THE VIOLET. О ! faint,... | |
 | 1879 - 618 oldal
...******* How like a prodigal doth nature seem When thou for all thy gold so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book." Could an uneducated eye have seen the common, every-day beauties of nature, and discovered the hidden... | |
 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 oldal
...peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. James Russell Lowell: born, 1819. (See page 22.) THE HOLLY TREE. OH, Reader ! hast thou ever stood... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - 1879 - 400 oldal
...common art! Thou- teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joys its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. — JR Lowell. FOREST LEAVES. 1TAKE increasing delight, on these mountain rambles, in studying the... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 oldal
...Dandelion. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. o. LOWELL — To the Dandelion. 140 FLOWERS DANDELION. FLOWERS— GENTIAN. Young Dandelion On a hedge-side,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 oldal
...Dandelion. How like л prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...and could some wondrous secret show. Did we but pay tho love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 oldal
...When thou, for all tby gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every buman heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam...Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undouhting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves... | |
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And I, secure in childish piety, Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven, which he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for... 
