 | 740 pages
...bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Than teaches! me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty... | |
 | 1867 - 738 pages
...How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, \\ In ii thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou tcachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since...we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look Into the page of its unwritten book. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. I suppose that very few casual readers... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy...gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 pages
...untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. 54 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy...Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, arid could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...bring Fresh every day to my untainted cars, When birds and (lowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art! Thou teuchest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart. Since each relied* in joy its scanty gleam... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1853 - 410 pages
...yellow tint as bright as ever, We might say to this flower as Lowell did to another: — " How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, "When thou, for all thy...its scanty gleam Of Heaven, and could some wondrous teaching show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these... | |
 | 1867 - 746 pages
...bring Fresh every day to my untainted cars, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou tcachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam... | |
 | 1854 - 362 pages
...bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. Barry Cornwall. DRETTY firstling of the year ! Herald of the host of flowers ! Hast thou left thy cavern... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1854 - 374 pages
...And ope Heaven's portals, which are near us still, Yea, nearer ever than the gates of 111. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. J AWVS RUSSELL LOWELL. THE LAW OF MERCY. "Tis written with the pen of heavenly Love On every heart... | |
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When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting... 
