By The Seaside : The Building Of The Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind ...
White-haired and hoary-bearded, who art thouThat speedest on, albeit bent with age,Even as a youth that followeth after dreams?Whence are ...
He is the despots' Despot. All must bide,Later or soon, the message of his might;Princes and potentates their heads must ...
I.Who pipes upon the long green hill, Where meadow grass is deep?The white lamb bleats but followeth on— Follow the clean white ...
The wind was on the forest, And silence on the wold; And darkness on the waters, And heaven was starry cold; When Sleep, with ...
The sides of the hill were brown, but violet buds had started In gray and hidden nooks o'erhung by feathery ferns ...
Oh, ye who gaze with tolerant meinUpon the song I sing, as tolerantlyI smile with understanding-At thy understanding!No music would ...
Wine's intoxication soon cometh, and as quickly disappeareth;But the eternal inebriation leaveth not the inebriated one.Tho', in the world, my ...
Every sick person that is impatient with his physician,Bringeth, if thou but consider, affliction upon himself.The fish existeth in the ...
Happy is the man that seeth the face of a friend in a far country:The darkness of his heart is ...
My faith is the lighting of my black night,The beacon of its pit-like sea.My faith is a staff within my ...
1.LORD, I do choose the higher than my will.I would be handled by thy nursing armsAfter thy will, not my ...
This labouring, vast, Tellurian galleon,Riding at anchor off the orient sun,Had broken its cable, and stood out to spaceDown some ...
Could you not drink her gaze like wine?Yet though its splendour swoonInto the silence languidlyAs a tune into a tune,Those ...
I. O HEART of man! be humble, nor disdain The latest gospel preached beneath the sun; Learn of the brute ...
A blast of wind, a momentary breath,A wat'ry bubble symbolized with air,A sun-blown rose, but for a season fair,A ghostly ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
'Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad, In thy house or my house is half the world's ...
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