| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Alexander Smith. (18301867) |
| | | 7648 | | Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire. |
| A Life Drama. Sc. 2. |
| 7649 | In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines. |
| A Life Drama. Sc. 2. |
| 7650 | | A poem round and perfect as a star. |
| A Life Drama. Sc. 2. |
| 7651 | Some books are drenchèd sands On which a great souls wealth lies all in heaps, Like a wrecked argosy. |
| A Life Drama. Sc. 2. |
| 7652 | The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman. |
| A Life Drama. Sc. 12. |
| 7653 | We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, 1 Who hold an hours converse, so short, so sweet; One little hour! And then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist and cloud and foam, To meet no more. |
| A Life Drama. Part iv. |
| 7654 | We hear the wail of the remorseful winds In their strange penance. And this wretched orb Knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world, Homeless and sobbing through the deep she goes. |
| Unrest and Childhood. |
| 7655 | The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars. |
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| | Note 1. Longfellow: The Theologians Tale: Elizabeth, page 644. Thomas Moore: The Meeting of the Ships, page 644, note. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: A Lament, page 631. [back] |
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