I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. The Spirit of American Literature - Side 111af John Albert Macy - 1913 - 347 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 536 sider
...such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent I oeriod. JGW AUBSBURY, iSM ylmo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's goiden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 464 sider
...any subsequent period. j. a w. AKESBUKT, Vn>k.,:,l mo., 1857. PEOEM. I LOVE the old melodious laya Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's...in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes 1 try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 sider
...this you can hear the deep refrain of Nature, and of Nature chanting her moral ideal. I.— PROEM. i. I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. NOTES. — Line 3. Spenser, Edmund ' most brilliant courtiers and (1553-1598), one of the most il-... | |
 | 1880 - 604 sider
...but is there not, generally, a true perception of English harmony? Well might he write in "The Poem:" "I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. " We go to the poets Lowell and Holmes for a clear exposition of the peculiarities of the New England... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 sider
...! • As the key-note of Whittier's poetry, we might take his own quaint and beautiful lines : — I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadia Sidney's silver phrase, Sprinkling o'er the noon of Time with freshest morning dew. Whittier's... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1881 - 394 sider
...I MAMILLIA : PART II. . . . . .137 ANATOMIE OF FLATTERIE .... 253 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS .... 299 I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. JOHN G. WHITTIER. TO THE REV. STOPFORD A. BROOKE, MA, LONDON. 'TIS NOT THAT I HAVE HOPE, OR E'EN DESIRE... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 484 sider
...LUMEERMEN. 380 DECEMBER 15. Mary May, 1788. DECEMBER 16. George Whitefield, 1714; Jane Austen, 1775. I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. O Freedom ! if to me belong Nor mighty Milton's gift divine, Nor Marvell's wit and graceful song, Still... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 sider
...as the writer would have chosen at any suhsequent beriod. 1. GW AMESBURY, i8/A yi mo., 1857. PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...songs of Spenser's golden days, ' Arcadian Sidney's silver, phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time wiiii freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 616 sider
...writer would have chosen at any subsequent beriod. JGW AMESBURY, i8/A yimo., 1857. 29644Г» PROEM. I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silver)' phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - 1882 - 324 sider
...to his complete poems he would fain persuade us that he cannot breathe such notes as those of— " The old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew." ^ But not so, O gentle minstrel of Essex! There are poems of thine which thousands prefer to the best... | |
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