The Tent on the BeachJ.R. Osgood and Company, 1877 - 188 strani |
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50 cents Abraham Davenport Allah Asian Attitash beach beneath birchen trees blue Boar boat Book-man breeze careless Cloth cloud dark dead ship looms death dream dusk of land Edition Esbern Snare eyes face fair full gilt ghosts gleam gold golden-rod goodman Goody Cole gray Hampton River hand HARPSWELL hath hear heard heart heavy sail Helva Illustrations island Kallundborg church lake laughed light lips looked Lord maid Manisees Melvin stream Montauk Morocco mountain mower mystery Narraganset Nesvek never night Norland o'er Old wives once OSGOOD pain Palatine pale pause Poems Portrait pray prayer red coals rills Rivermouth Rocks saith sand shadow shore sight silent sing skipper hauled song soul sound star summer sunny isles sunset sweet voice thee thine thou tide tossed Traveller Troll trumpet Ulshoi hill watched waves whispered white tents WHITTIER wind wreck Zealand وو
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Stran 90 - Sat the lawgivers of Connecticut, Trembling beneath their legislative robes. " It is the Lord's Great Day ! Let us adjourn," Some said ; and then, as if with one accord, All eyes were turned to Abraham Davenport. He rose, slow cleaving with his steady voice The intolerable hush. "This well may be The day of judgment, which the world awaits ; But be it so or not, I only know My present duty, and my Lord's command To occupy till he conic.
Stran 94 - The blue sky is the temple's arch, Its transept earth and air, The music of its starry march The chorus of a prayer. So Nature keeps the reverent frame With which her years began, And all her signs and voices shame The prayerless heart of man. The singer ceased. The moon's white rays Fell on the rapt, still face of her. "Allah il Allah / He hath praise From all things,
Stran 91 - And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half seen Against the background of unnatural dark, A witness to the ages as they pass, That simple duty hath no place for fear.
Stran 89 - To hear the doom -blast of the trumpet shatter The black sky, that the dreadful face of Christ Might look from the rent clouds, not as He looked A loving guest at Bethany, but stern As Justice and inexorable Law. Meanwhile in the old State House, dim as ghosts, Sat the lawgivers of Connecticut, Trembling beneath their legislative robes. "It is the Lord's Great Day! Let us adjourn," Some said; and then, as if with one accord, All eyes were turned to Abraham Davenport.
Stran 92 - THE harp at Nature's advent strung Has never ceased to play ; The song the stars of morning sung Has never died away. And prayer is made, and praise is given, By all things near and far ; The ocean looketh up to heaven, And mirrors every star.
Stran 84 - Old wives spinning their webs of tow, Or rocking weirdly to and fro In and out of the peat's dull glow, And old men mending their nets of twine, Talk together of dream and sign, Talk of the lost ship Palatine, — The ship that, a hundred years before, Freighted deep with its goodly store, In the gales of the equinox went ashore. The eager islanders one by one Counted the shots of her signal gun, And heard the crash when she drove...
Stran 29 - Goody Cole looked out from her door : The Isles of Shoals were drowned and gone, Scarcely she saw the Head of the Boar Toss the foam from tusks of stone. She clasped her hands with a grip of pain, The tear on her cheek was not of rain :
Stran 16 - The common air was thick with dreams, — He told them to the toiling crowd ; Such music as the woods and streams Sang in his ear he sang aloud ; In still, shut bays, on windy capes He heard the call of beckoning shapes, And, as the gray old shadows prompted him, To homely moulds of rhyme he shaped their legends grim.
Stran 22 - Once, in the old Colonial days, Two hundred years ago and more, A boat sailed down through the winding ways Of Hampton River to that low shore, Full of a goodly company Sailing out on the summer sea, Veering to catch the land-breeze light, With the Boar to left and the Rocks to right.