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There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. - Resignation [Death] There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howso'er defended, But has one vacant chair. - Resignation [Death] We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. - Resignation (st. 4) [Heaven] Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead. - Resignation (st. 7) [Immortality] A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought. - Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass [Time] A Lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. - Santa Filomena (st. 10) [Women] The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces! - Seaside and Fireside--Dedication [Books] For I am weary, and am overwrought With too much toil, with too much care distraught, And with the iron crown of anguish crowned. Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek, O peaceful Sleep! - Sleep [Sleep] Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow. - Snow-Flakes [Snow] Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best. - Song (st. 1) [Home] Leaving us heirs to amplest heritages Of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages, And giving tongues unto the silent dead! - Sonnet of Mrs. Kemble's Reading from Shakespeare [Books] Like two cathedral towers these stately pines Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones; The arch beneath them is not built with stones, Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines, And carved this graceful arabesque of vines; No organ but the wind here sighs and moans, No sepulchre conceals a martyr's bones, No marble bishop on his tomb reclines. Enter! the pavement, carpeted with leaves, Gives back a softened echo to thy tread! Listen! the choir is singing; all the birds, In leafy galleries beneath the eaves, Are singing! listen, ere the sound be fled, And learn there may be worship without words. - Sonnets--My Cathedral [Pine] Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa, When that dull distance shall no more divide us; And I no more shall scale thy wall by night To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now. - Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3) [Expectation] 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. - Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3) [Easter] That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone. - Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3, l. 109) [Love] I love thee, as the good love heaven. - Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3, l. 146) [Love] Dreams of the summer night! Tell her, her lover keeps Watch! while in slumbers light She sleeps! My lady sleeps! Sleeps! - Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3, Serenade, st. 4) [Sleep] Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth. - Spanish Student (act I, sc. 4) [Eating] All the means of action-- The shapeless masses, the materials-- Lie everywhere about us. That we need Is the celestial fire to change the flint Into transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius! - Spanish Student (act I, sc. 5) [Genius] Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. - Spanish Student (act I, sc. 5, l. 52) [Love] Like a fair lily on a river floating She floats upon the river of his thoughts. - Spanish Student (act II, sc. 3) [Women] And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more. - Spanish Student (act III, sc. 3) [Age] Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet! - Spanish Student (act III, sc. 5) [Dreams] It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream, A blissful certainty, a vision bright, Of that rare happiness, which even on earth Heaven gives to those it loves. - Spanish Student (act III, sc. 5) [Visions] Fortune comes well to all that comes not late. - Spanish Student (act III, sc. 5, l. 281) [Fortune] Displaying page 22 of 26 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 [22] 23 24 25 26
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