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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... earth , should be an exponent of his ' inner life , ' his every - day thoughts , impulses , and affections . Why I have not been able to do this , I shall now briefly explain . For many many months previous to the death of my twin ...
... earth , should be an exponent of his ' inner life , ' his every - day thoughts , impulses , and affections . Why I have not been able to do this , I shall now briefly explain . For many many months previous to the death of my twin ...
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... earth , ' and asked if that was not a part of it . I told him that that belonged to the burial service . Then , ' said he , ' it is quite suitable for me , for it will soon be read by you over my grave . ' I sat by his bed , and found ...
... earth , ' and asked if that was not a part of it . I told him that that belonged to the burial service . Then , ' said he , ' it is quite suitable for me , for it will soon be read by you over my grave . ' I sat by his bed , and found ...
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... earth may never know , O'er many mansions ' lingering , glow , In peerless lustre shed ; It were not lonely thus to soar Where sin and grief can sting no more ! ' One of the Philadelphia journals , in announcing his demise observes ...
... earth may never know , O'er many mansions ' lingering , glow , In peerless lustre shed ; It were not lonely thus to soar Where sin and grief can sting no more ! ' One of the Philadelphia journals , in announcing his demise observes ...
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... earth ! The cities of America have arisen , like exhalations , from the wilder- ness revolution has followed revolution : rivers of blood , and ' hecatombs of men , ' have testified the march of Death ; yet lonely , simple Jerusalem ...
... earth ! The cities of America have arisen , like exhalations , from the wilder- ness revolution has followed revolution : rivers of blood , and ' hecatombs of men , ' have testified the march of Death ; yet lonely , simple Jerusalem ...
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... earth , one gets an inkling of it , on a spring day , when his heart is not worn , and his bosom is young . ' It is a blessed time ; and he who feels it has a right to say so , even at the expense of being called a proser . I love to ...
... earth , one gets an inkling of it , on a spring day , when his heart is not worn , and his bosom is young . ' It is a blessed time ; and he who feels it has a right to say so , even at the expense of being called a proser . I love to ...
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Page 92 - 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 live, or stay and die.
Page 362 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
Page 247 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Page 15 - 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 empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there: I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale.
Page 236 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...
Page 222 - Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer...
Page 128 - Behold, yonder is that Shunammite: run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee ? is it well with thy husband ? is it well with the child ? And she answered, It is well.
Page 130 - For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of the birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away...
Page 14 - Marry my body to that dust It so much loves; and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there; I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale. '«) And think not much of my delay; I am already on the way, And follow thee with all the speed Desire can make, or sorrows breed.
Page 69 - No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.