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Pagina 58 - Through all the gates, unquestioned then. Went king and beggar hand in hand. Whispered the king, " Shall I know when Before his throne I stand ? " The beggar laughed. Free winds in haste Were wiping from the king's hot brow The crimson lines the crown had traced. " This is his presence now.
Pagina 194 - SEPTEMBER. HE golden-rod is yellow; The corn is turning brown; The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. The gentian's bluest fringes Are curling in the sun ; In dusty pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun. The sedges flaunt their harvest, In every meadow nook ; And asters by the brook-side Make asters in the brook. From dewy lanes at morning The grapes
Pagina 15 - In other air. and other men With weary feet, On other roads, the simple strain Are finding sweet. The birds must know. Who wisely sings Will sing as they; The common air has generous wings, Songs make their way. THE TRUE BALLAD OF THE KING'S SINGER.
Pagina 14 - To help him rest; When next he goes that road again, An empty nest On leafless bough will make him sigh, " Ah me ! last spring Just here I heard, in passing by, That rare bird sing ! " But while he sighs, remembering How sweet the song, The little bird on tireless wing,
Pagina 172 - jewels on her costliest array; October, scornful, burns them on a bier. The winter hoards his pearls of frost in sign Of kingdom : whiter pearls than winter knew, Or Empress wore, in Egypt's ancient line, October, feasting 'neath her dome of blue, Drinks at a single draught, slow filtered through Sunshiny air, as in a tingling wine
Pagina 172 - OCTOBER. HE month of carnival of all the year, When Nature lets the wild earth go its way, And spend whole seasons on a single day. The spring-time holds her white and purple dear; October, lavish, flaunts them far and near; The summer charily her reds doth
Pagina 114 - kneel down, full in my sight; I hear their chorus of "good night " ; And half I smile, and half I weep, Listening while they lie " down to sleep.
Pagina xi - Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen, or misunderstand. The motherhood which came To virgin sets in vestal flame, Fed by each new-born infant's hand, With Heaven's air, With Heaven's food, The crown of purest purity revealed, Virginity eternal signed and sealed Upon all motherhood
Pagina 111 - Descended from long lines of springs, I see make room for thee to bide A quiet comrade by their side ; I see the creeping peoples go Mysterious journeys to and fro, Treading to right and left of thee, Doing thee homage
Pagina 77 - Now brown, now yellow, changing as by some Swift spell. I know not with what body come The saints. But this I know, my Paradise Will mean the resurrection of her eyes. THE WALL-FLOWER OF THE RUINS OF ROME. GOLDEN-WINGED, on guard at crumbled gate And fallen wall of emperors and kings,

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