American Familiar VerseBrander Matthews Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 308 หน้า |
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apple-pie and cheese Arcady Auf wiedersehen Austin Dobson awful ballad beauty beneath birds bless bob-o'-link bright Caty-did charming chee cheek dance dead dear dream EDWARD COATE PINKNEY English Eugene Field eyes face fair familiar verse FITZ JAMES O'BRIEN flower of love French girl grace hair hand happy heart Heaven HENRY CUYLER BUNNER here's JOHN GODFREY SAXE jolly old pedagogue JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE kiss lady laugh light lips literature Little Jerry live Locker-Lampson long ago look lover lyric maiden merry muse never night o'er old house goes once passion Perhaps play poems poet poetry Polly pretty rhyme Rosalie Clare rose round sigh sing smile snow social verse song soul Spink sweet talk tell tender thee thing THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH thou thought to-day tone trees triple qualification vers de société wind wine young youth
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หน้า 68 - him call in his merry note : Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Look, what a nice new coat is mine, Sure there was never a bird so fine. Chee, chee, chee. Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife, Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patient life, Broods in the grass while her husband sings:
หน้า 68 - or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name : Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Snug and safe is that nest of ours, Hidden among the summer flowers. Chee, chee, chee. Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding coat; White are his shoulders and white his crest,
หน้า 87 - SPARKLING AND BRIGHT SPARKLING and bright in liquid light, Does the wine our goblets gleam in, With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in. Then fill to-night, with hearts as light, To loves as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim on the beaker's
หน้า 104 - I care not much for gold or land ; — Give me a mortgage here and there, — Some good bank-stock, — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share, — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend.
หน้า 181 - So thought I, — but among us trod A man in blue, with legal baton, And scoffed the vagrant demigod, And pushed him from the step I sat on. Doubting I mused upon the cry, " Great Pan is dead ! " — and all the people Went on their ways : — and clear and high The quarter sounded from the steeple.
หน้า 78 - each flows As one may see the burthened bee Forth issue from the rose ! Affections are as thoughts to her, The measure of her hours ; Her feelings have the fragrancy, The freshness of young flowers
หน้า 107 - TO AN INSECT I LOVE to hear thine earnest voice, Wherever thou art hid, Thou testy little dogmatist, Thou pretty Katydid ! Thou mindest me of gentle folks, — Old gentlefolks are they, — Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way.
หน้า 37 - s the gilt paper, which apart you store, And lock from vulgar hands in the 'scrutoire. Mechanics, servants, farmers, and so forth, Are copy-paper, of inferior worth ; Less prized, more useful, for your desk decreed, Free to all pens, and prompt at every need.
หน้า 38 - her for his pains. One instance more, and only one I '11 bring; 'T is the great man who scorns a little thing, Whose thoughts, whose deeds, whose maxims are his own, Form'd on the feelings of his heart alone: True genuine royal-paper is his breast: Of all the kinds most precious, purest, best. FRANCIS HOPKINSON
หน้า 143 - Bird of to-day, thy songs are stale To his, my singer of all weathers, My Calderon, my nightingale, My Arab soul in Spanish feathers. " Ah, friend, these singers dead so long, And still, God knows, in purgatory, Give its best sweetness to all song, To Nature's self her better glory.