The Vassar Miscellany, Volume 20Vassar College., 1890 - Universities and colleges |
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... poetry in him awoke . He lived , in the character of his friend Rowley , amid the romance and beauty of the ... poet of his times ; in fact , he was Chatterton's ideal of culture and wisdom , a man of differ- ent race from the ...
... poetry in him awoke . He lived , in the character of his friend Rowley , amid the romance and beauty of the ... poet of his times ; in fact , he was Chatterton's ideal of culture and wisdom , a man of differ- ent race from the ...
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... poetry and prose will be at a premium , Stories mostly pure love are not wanted in large num- bers . " 66 Unlike the Dartmouth Lit. the Wellesley Prelude some- times surprises by the excellence of its contents . We do not look for much ...
... poetry and prose will be at a premium , Stories mostly pure love are not wanted in large num- bers . " 66 Unlike the Dartmouth Lit. the Wellesley Prelude some- times surprises by the excellence of its contents . We do not look for much ...
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... poet always speaks of the spring rains as joyous ? They can never have lived in California , for there is nothing so ... poets to put Spring for Autumn and Autumn.
... poet always speaks of the spring rains as joyous ? They can never have lived in California , for there is nothing so ... poets to put Spring for Autumn and Autumn.
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Were the poets to put Spring for Autumn and Autumn for Spring , their descriptions would be much truer , when applied to California . There the Autumn rains do not " sob against the panes , " but jump on them , thump them , kick them ...
Were the poets to put Spring for Autumn and Autumn for Spring , their descriptions would be much truer , when applied to California . There the Autumn rains do not " sob against the panes , " but jump on them , thump them , kick them ...
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... poet's own life , and , afterwards , at some in which he pictures his countrymen . The sadness , the impotence , the loneliness of his last years is shown in the following passages : " But age is now on my tongue ; my soul has failed ...
... poet's own life , and , afterwards , at some in which he pictures his countrymen . The sadness , the impotence , the loneliness of his last years is shown in the following passages : " But age is now on my tongue ; my soul has failed ...
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Page 174 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 49 - Whence are thy beams, O Sun! thy everlasting light! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years...
Page 49 - ... from the clouds and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more, whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art, perhaps, like me, for a season ; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 49 - Star of descending night ! fair is thy light in the west ! thou liftest thy unshorn head from thy cloud ; thy steps are stately on thy hill. What dost thou behold in the plain ? The stormy winds are laid. The murmur of the torrent comes from afar.
Page 321 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Page 57 - Let my sins be all forgiven ! Bless the friends I love so well ! Take me, when I die, to heaven, Happy there with thee to dwell...
Page 120 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 58 - In death's dark vale I fear no ill With Thee, dear Lord, beside me ; Thy rod and staff my comfort still, Thy Cross before to guide me.
Page 52 - They shall admire the chiefs of old, the race that are no more ! while we ride on our clouds, Malvina ! on the wings of the roaring winds. Our voices shall be heard, at times, in the desert ; we shall sing on the breeze of the rock.
Page 48 - Cona ? My years have passed away in battle. My age is darkened with grief! " Daughter of the hand of snow, I was not so mournful and blind; I was not so dark and forlorn, when Everallin loved me ! Everallin with the dark-brown hair, the white-bosomed daughter of Branno.