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Stars of the summer night! Far in yon azure deeps Hide, hide your golden light! She sleeps! My lady sleeps! Sleeps. - Spanish Student--Serenade [Stars] Within her tender eye The heaven of April, with its changing light. - Spirit of Poetry [Eyes] O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever and forever shalt thou be To some the gravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain. - Summer Day by the Sea [Day : Summer] No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. - Sunrise on the Hills (l. 35) [Nature] Take them, O Grave! and let them lie Folded upon thy narrow shelves, As garments by the soul laid by, And precious only to ourselves! - Suspiria [Graves] The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if new-born; There was that nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. I), The Student's Tale--The Falcon of Sir Federigo, l. 135 [September] A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. I, prelude, l. 18) [Inns] Listen to that song, and learn it! Half my kingdom would I give, As I live, If by such songs you would earn it. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. I, The Musician's Tale, The Saga of King Olaf, pt. V) [Songs] A man of mark. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. I, The Musician's Tale--Saga of King Olaf, pt. IX, st. 2) [Man] Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III), The Student's Tale, Emma and Eginhard, l. 177 [Mercy] Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,), The Sicilian's Tale--Interlude Before the Monk of Casal-Maggiore [Listening] How can I tell the signals and the signs By which one heart another heart divines? How can I tell the many thousand ways By which it keeps the secret it betrays? - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, Student's Tale, Emma and Eginhard, l. 75) [Love] Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, The Student's Tale, Emma and Eginhard, l. 82) [Nobility] O lost days of delight, that are wasted in doubting and waiting! O lost hours and days in which we might have been happy! - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, The Theologian's Tale, Elizabeth) [Regret] Thus came the lovely spring with a rush of blossoms and music, Flooding the earth with flowers, and the air with melodies vernal. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, The Theologian's Tale, Elizabeth) [Spring] World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart Beats on forever as of old. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, The Theologian's Tale, Interlude) [Sympathy] There comes to me out of the Past A voice, whose tones are sweet and wild, Singing a song almost divine, And with a tear in every line. - Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III--Interlude before "The Mother's Ghost") [Memory] 'Tis always morning somewhere. - Tales of a Wayside Inn--Birds of Killingworth (st. 16) [Compensation] But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right; Things have been mended that were worse, And the worse, the nearer they are to mend. - Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Baron of St. Castine (l. 265) [Change] Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. - Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Poet's Tale--Birds of Killingworth (st. 19) [Crows] Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught The dialect they speak, where melodies Alone are the interpreters of thought? Whose household words are songs in many keys, Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught! - Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Poet's Tale--The Birds of Killingworth [Birds] The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be. - Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Poet's Tale--The Birds of Killingworth (st. 2) [Sparrows] It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws; And this shall make, in every Christian clime, The bell of Atri famous for all time. - Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Sicilian's Tale--The Bell of Atri [Bells] All things come round to him who will but wait. - Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Student's Tale (pt. I) [Patience] His fame was great in all the land. - Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Student's Tale--Emma and Eginhard (l. 50) [Fame] Displaying page 23 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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