The Over-Heart (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Above, below, in sky and sod,In leaf and spar, in star and man,Well might the wise Athenian scanThe geometric signs ...
Above, below, in sky and sod,In leaf and spar, in star and man,Well might the wise Athenian scanThe geometric signs ...
In these red labyrinths of LondonI find that I have chosenthe strangest of all callings,save that, in its way, any ...
So quiet it was in that high, sun-steeped room,So warm and still, that sometimes with the lightThrough the great windows, ...
Quoth Mejnun: "O sole friend of true plight!With counsel many have tried me to guide right;Many with wisdom gifted have ...
I: PalacesA Wall of sod, a roof of thatch,And naked turf the floor;And winds, unchallenged and unbarred,Go in and out ...
SEE, sir, how, as the sun's hot masculine flame Begets strange creatures on Nile's dirty slime, In me your fatherly yet lusty ...
O Mother Earth, how couldst thou let him go?Thy son, whose every touch was a caressTo blossom into all of ...
Dutiful, underpaid bearer of burden(Although as oxen your past roles were cast,And dark the stage whereon your scene was set)The ...
The world was widowed by the death of Christ:Vainly its suffering soul for peace has soughtAnd found it not.For nothing, ...
Art thou enraged, O sea, with the blue peace Of heaven, so to uplift thine arm?d waves, Thy ...
Ho! Ye who mourn the serried ranks that mouldOn fens of Flanders, hills of Picardy,Who rail at king or kaiser, ...
The pathway to my heart by fewIs sought, to few that pathway known,So deep a thicket round it sown,With grass ...
"NOT flesh alone am I, when I can be So swiftly caught in Beauty's shimmering thread Whose slender fibres, woven, ...
No, we are strangers yet, The divine alchemy Not yet, or vainly, has set Our longing currents free. We meet, ...
Alchemist of melody,Drop by drop distilling!Hidden high on some tall tree,Alchemist of melody;With your liquid minstrelsyAll the forest filling:Alchemist of ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
'Tis true, dear Ben, thy just chastising hand Hath fix'd upon the sotted age a brand To their swoll'n pride ...
in these red labyrinths of London I find that I have chosen the strangest of all callings, save that, in ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
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