A Perfect Day and Other Poems

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John H. Carmany & Company, Printers, 1881 - 173 strani
 

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Stran 12 - IT'S O my heart, my heart, To be out in the sun and sing! To sing and shout in the fields about, In the balm and the blossoming.
Stran 143 - Sweet, sweet, sweet! O skies, serene and blue, That shut the velvet pastures in, that fold the mountain's crest ! .sweet, sweet, sweet! What of the clouds ye knew? The vessels ride a golden tide, upon a sea at rest. Sweet, sweet, sweet! Who prates of care and pain? Who says that life is sorrowful? O life so glad, so fleet! Ah ! he who lives the noblest life finds life the noblest gain, The tears of pain a tender rain to make its waters sweet. Sweet, sweet, sweet ! O happy world that is ! Dear heart,...
Stran 13 - There are none of you glad as I. The leaves laugh low in the wind, Laugh low, with the wind at play; And the odorous call of the flowers all Entices my soul away! For...
Stran 30 - When the grass grows over me. When the grass shall cover me, Holden close to Earth's warm bosom ; While I laugh, or weep, or sing Nevermore for anything ; You will find in blade and blossom, Sweet, small voices, odorous, Tender pleaders in my cause, That shall speak me as I was — When the grass grows over me.
Stran 31 - When the grass grows over me. When the grass shall cover me, Holden close to earth's warm bosom, — While I laugh, or weep, or sing, Nevermore for anything, You will find in blade and blossom, Sweet, small voices odorous, Tender pleaders in my cause, That shall speak me as I was — When the grass grows over me. When the grass shall cover me ! Ah, beloved...
Stran 19 - Eden's life within me stirs, And scorns the shackles that I wear; The man-life grand — pure soul, strong hand, The limb of steel, the heart of air! And I could kiss, with longing wild, Earth's dear brown bosom, loved so much, A grass-blade fanned across my hand, Would thrill me like a lover's touch. The trees would talk with me; the flowers Their hidden meanings each make known — The olden lore revived once more, When man's and nature's heart were one! And as the pardoned pair might come Back...
Stran 123 - Only the field-lily, slim and tall, Spake not, for all, — Spake not and did not stir, Lapsed in some far and tender memory. Softly I questioned her : "And what of thee?
Stran 30 - ME" WHEN the grass shall cover me, Head to foot where I am lying; When not any wind that blows, Summer blooms nor winter snows, Shall awake me to your sighing: Close above me as you pass, You will say, "How kind she was," You will say, "How true she was," When the grass grows over me.
Stran 10 - The crickets in the warm, green grass Chirp with a softened sound. The sky looks down upon the sea, Blue, with not anywhere The shadow of a passing cloud ; The sea looks up as fair — So bright a picture on its breast As if it smiled to wear. A day too glad for laughter — nay, Too glad for happy tears! The fair earth seems as in a dream Of immemorial years : Perhaps of that far morn when she Sang with her sister spheres. It may be that she holds to-day Some sacred Sabbath feast.
Stran 32 - GRIEF. So fair the sun rose yestermorn, The mountain cliffs adorning; The golden tassels of the corn Danced in the breath of morning; The cool, clear stream that runs before, Such happy words was saying, And in the open cottage door My pretty babe was playing. Aslant the sill a sunbeam lay: I laughed in careless pleasure, To see his little hand essay To grasp the shining treasure. To-day no shafts of golden flame Across the sill are lying; To-day I call my baby's name, And hear no lisped replying;...

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