The American Female Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices

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Lindsay & Blakiston, 1848 - 545 ページ
Biographies supplemented by selections of poetry of over seventy American women poets, including Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Sigourney, and Mary E. Hewitt.

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16 ページ - I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I, If so much excellence abide below ; How excellent is He, that dwells on high ! Whose power and beauty by his works we know. Sure he is goodness, wisdome, glory, light, That hath this under world so richly dight : More heaven than earth was here no winter and no night.
142 ページ - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
17 ページ - And softly said, what glory's like to thee? Soul of this world, this universe's eye, No wonder some made thee a deity. Had I not better known, (alas) the same had I.
71 ページ - Gifts and gold are nought to me : I would only look on thee ; Tell to thee the high-wrought feeling, Ecstasy but in revealing ; Paint to thee the deep sensation, Rapture in participation, Yet but torture, if comprest In a lone, unfriended breast. Absent still ? Ah, come and bless me ! Let these eyes again caress thee. Once, in caution, I could fly thee : Now I nothing could deny thee. In a look if death there be, Come, and I will gaze on thee ! " Southey declared this poem to be not only equal, but...
17 ページ - Art thou so full of glory that no Eye Hath strength thy shining Rayes once to behold? And is thy splendid Throne erect so high As to approach it can no earthly mould? How full of glory, then, must thy Creator be Who gave this bright light luster unto thee: Admir'd, ador'd for ever be that Majesty!
121 ページ - There flies a bird to a neighboring tree, But very lazily flieth he, And he sits and twitters a gentle note, That scarcely ruffles his little throat. You bid me be busy ; but, mother, hear How the hum-drum grasshopper soundeth near, And the soft west wind is so light in its play, It scarcely moves a leaf on the spray. I wish, oh, I wish, I was yonder cloud, That sails about with its misty shroud ; Books and work I no more should see, And I'd come and float, dear mother, o'er thee.
382 ページ - PAUSE not to dream of the future before us; Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o'er us; Hark, how Creation's deep, musical chorus, Unintermitting, goes up into heaven ! Never the ocean wave falters in flowing ; Never the little seed stops in its growing; More and more richly the rose-heart keeps glowing, Till from its nourishing stem it is riven. " Labor is worship ! " — the robin is singing ; "Labor is worship!
15 ページ - It is the Work of a Woman honoured and esteemed where she lives, for her gracious demeanour, her eminent parts, her pious conversation, her courteous disposition, her exact diligence in her place, and discreet managing of her family occasions ; and more then so, these Poems are the fruit but of some few houres, curtailed from her sleep, and other refreshments.
95 ページ - True prayer is not the noisy sound That clamorous lips repeat, But the deep silence of a soul That clasps Jehovah's feet.
16 ページ - Poem upon the Four Elements, the Four Humours in Man's Constitution, the Four Ages of Man, and the Four Seasons of the Year...

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