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 - 1895 - 584 sider
...sliuulJ have omitted. JGW PROEM [Written to introduce the fint general collection of Whittier't Poems.] I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vaiidy in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers... | |
 | Robert Hoe, Oscar Albert Bierstadt - 1895 - 390 sider
...collected edition of Spenser in a folio of 1611. Such fascinating volumes make one repeat with Whittier : I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Another Elizabethan poet, Father Robert Southwell, had a life of vicissitude. He was stolen from his... | |
 | John Henry Diebel - 1896 - 92 sider
...this paper." 13. ""Paying a lawyer in any court, we pay over again '8what we have paid before." 14. " I love the old melodious lays, which softly melt the "ages through." 15. "The struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course 20to trend, Are eddies of the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 sider
...prose. His muse had gained in breadth of thought and sentiment. It was at this time he wrote : — " I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew." Among the eighty poems contributed to the National Era, some of those needing special mention are "... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1899 - 196 sider
...and of the English world. Hence the beautiful lines of Whittier are fully confirmed, as he writes : I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. While all the historic types of lyrics are found — pastoral, descriptive, humorous, and satiric —... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 sider
...of the sea The sunset broods regretfully." OF REFLECTION. PROEM. t LOVE the old melodious lays That softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, prinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours 'o breathe their... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 952 sider
...the storm. 3[oïjn Wfyittitt PROEM (WRITTEN то INTRODUCE THE FIRST GENERAL COLLECTION OF HIS POEMS) I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet honrs To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 sider
...storm. 43rcmlc,if IDIjittirr PROEM (WRITTEN TO INTRODUCE THE FIRST GENERAL COLLECTION OF HIS POEMS) pspr miiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1901 - 572 sider
...Playhouse " is the name of William Shakespeare. II THE ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE SHAKESPEARE — BACON I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. WHITTIER AT7HAT is called the " Elizabethan literature " is that *^ body of classic English prose and... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 sider
...prose. His muse had gained in breadth of thought and sentiment. It was at this time he wrote : — " I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the...Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew." Among the eighty poems contributed to the National Era, some of those needing special mention are "... | |
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