The Literary Remains of the Late Willis Gaylord Clark: Including the Ollapodiana Papers, the Spirit of Life, and a Selection from His Various Prose and Poetical Writings, Volume 56; Volume 276Burgess, Stringer & Company, 1844 - 480 pages |
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Page 92 - ROMEO.— It was the lark, the herald of the morn. No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds, in yonder East: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops: I must be gone and
Page 439 - all other passions fly, All others are but vanity: But love is indestructible: Its holy flame for ever burneth; From heaven it came — to heaven returneth ; Too oft on earth a troubled guest, At times deceived, at times oppress'd — It here Is tried, and purified, And hath in heaven its perfect rest.
Page 385 - errant, and wights of suspicious integrity of brain. Therefore he was at liberty to speak as he did of the place beloved by our first parents, and where often ' Hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in Love's embraces met: Adam the goodliest man of men, since born His
Page 236 - beyond the Tiber, and more near, From out the Csesar's palace, came the owl's long cry, And interruptedly of distant sentinels the fitful song, Begun and died upon the gentle wind. And thou didst shine, thou rolling moon! upon all this And cast a wide and tender light, which softened down The hoar austerity of rugged desolation,
Page 224 - thou tak'st, As from my death-bed, my last living leave. In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fire With good old folks; and let them tell thee tales Of woful ages, long ago betid ; And ere thou bid good-night, to quit their grief, Tell thou the lamentable fall of me!
Page 273 - THIS is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb, Quite from his nature : He cannot flatter, he ! An honest mind and plain — he must speak truth: An' if they take it, so ; if not,
Page 93 - light aerial influence — which has since been lost among the hollow pageantries of the world. I admire that song of Hood's, in which, while recapitulating the memories of his boyhood, he says: 'I REMEMBER, I remember The pine trees, dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were dose against
Page 236 - DO remember me, that on a night like this, I stood beneath the Coliseum's wall Mid the chief relics of almighty Rome: . The trees that grew along the broken arches, Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin: from afar* The watch-dog bay'd beyond the Tiber, and more near, From out the
Page 128 - I forget the place where it is to be found. ' And he said to the mother, Is it well with thee ? Is it well with thy husband ? Is it well with thy child ? And she answered, It is well.
Page 14 - in thy cold bed, Never to be disquieted: My last' good night'! — thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake: Till age, or grief, or sickness, must Marry my body to that dust It so much loves; and fill the room My heart keeps vacant