 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1889 - 248 oldal
...VI. 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 each reflects in joy its scanty gleam so Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret sho Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 338 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...who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left or right, Lest a spirit should arise, Cold and white, to freeze your eyes, Some weak phantom, which... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 338 oldal
...sing 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...who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left or right, Lest a spirit should arise, Cold and white, to freeze your eyes, Some weak phantom, which... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 370 oldal
...sing How like a prodigal doth uature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, S£ common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, . ....Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubtingjwisdpm look On all these living pages of God's bggk. THE GHOST-SEER YE who, passing graves... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 452 oldal
...nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly (if every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its...gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show. gold, MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 528 oldal
...peers. blow 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 each reflects in joy its scant}' gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 560 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...look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEEK. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 oldal
...ill. 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. But let me read thy lesson right or no, Of one good gift from thee my heart is sure: Old I shall never... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 560 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...Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's nndoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves... | |
 | James Russell Lowell, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1892 - 394 oldal
...make 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. But let me read thy lesson right or no, Of one good gift from thee my heart is sure ; Old I shall never... | |
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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... 
