Bitter-sweet: A PoemC. Scribner & Company, 1868 - 220 strani |
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angels arms beautiful blasphemy bless Blue Beard bosom breast breath brine brow CHARLES SCRIBNER chastened Christ cider crown DAVID dear death door dream durance e'en ears earth EDWARD evermore evil evil live eyes face faith faithless Father Fatima fear feet fell flame forgive friends girl give God's golden hour GRACE hand happy head heart Heaven husband Hush ISRAEL Jesus kiss knew light lips live LOCALITY-The look Lord MARY never night Old tunes pain pale path pity poplar prayed prayer precious PRUDENCE quick REBEKAH roar RUTH Save secret shame sighs sleep sleet smile song sophistries Sotto voce soul speak stairs stood storm story strange sweet sweet spring sweetest talk tears tell temptation thee thing thou thought throb throne toil toss truth truth's credentials Twas twixt utterance vision wait weak wedded wife wild woman wonder words
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Stran 27 - Who can tell what a baby thinks? Who can follow the gossamer links By which the manikin feels his way Out from the shore of the great unknown, Blind and wailing, and alone, Into the light of day?
Stran 26 - WHAT is the little one thinking about ? Very wonderful things, no doubt ; Unwritten history ! Unfathomed mystery ! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks, And chuckles, and crows, and nods, and winks, As if his head were as full of kinks And curious riddles as any sphinx...
Stran 167 - I'm looking still, But naught can I see, whether good or ill, Save a flurry of dust in the distance." "Time's up !" shouted BLUEBEARD, out from his room ; " This moment shall witness your terrible doom, And give you a dwelling within the room Whose secrets you have invaded." " Comes there no help for my terrible need ?" "There are horsemen twain riding hither with speed.
Stran 27 - Out from the shore of the unknown sea, Tossing in pitiful agony ; Of the unknown sea that reels and rolls, Specked with the barks of little souls : Barks that were launched on the other side, And slipped from Heaven on an ebbing tide...
Stran 74 - Life evermore is fed by death, In earth and sea and sky ; And, that a rose may breathe its breath. Something must die.
Stran 27 - What of the cradle-roof that flies Forward and backward through the air? What does he think of his mother's breast, Bare and beautiful, smooth and white, — Seeking it ever with fresh delight, Cup of his life and couch of his rest? What...
Stran 169 - Twas a private funeral Blue Beard had ; For the people knew he was very bad, And, though they said nothing, they all were glad For the fall of the evil-doer ; But Fatima first ordered some graves to be made, And there the unfortunate ladies were laid, And after some painful months, with the aid Of her friends, her spirits came to her. Then she cheered the hearts of the suffering poor, And an acre of land around each door, And a cow and a couple of sheep, or more, To her tenantry she granted.
Stran 163 - Beard then, for a month, I ween ! And she was as proud as any queen, And as happy as she could be, too; But her husband called her to him one day, And said, " My dear, I am going away; It will not be long that I shall stay; There is business for me to see to. " The keys of my castle I leave with you; But if you value my love, be true, And forbear to enter the Chamber of Blue! Farewell, Fatima! Remember!
Stran 60 - Fon summer's bloom and autumn's blight, For bending wheat and blasted maize, For health and sickness, Lord of light And Lord of darkness, hear our praise. 2 We trace to thee our joys and woes, — To thee of causes still the Cause : We thank thee that thy hand bestows ; We bless thee that thy love withdraws.
Stran 83 - But go'd-flakes gleam in dim defiles And lonely gorges. The snowy marble flecks the land With heaped and rounded ledges, But diamonds hide within the sand Their starry edges. The finny armies clog the twine That sweeps the lazy river, But pearls come singly from the brine, With the pale diver.