American Familiar Verse

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Brander Matthews
Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 308 หน้า
 

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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.

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