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...e ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow. Let knowledge grow from ...

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...le systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. 20 We have b... ...reast Spring wakens too; and my regret Becomes an April violet, And buds and blossoms like the rest. 20 130 In Memoriam CXV. IS it, then, regret for ...

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... hand-guard of a spear Burble, bubble Burbling, bubbling Burgenetts, buds, blossoms Bushment, ambush By and by, immediately Bywaryed, expended, bestow... ...-fore, before To-morn, to-morrow Took, gave To-rove, broke up To-shivered, broken to pieces Traced, advanced and retreated Trains, devices, wiles Tras...

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... hand-guard of a spear Burble, bubble Burbling, bubbling Burgenetts, buds, blossoms Bushrnent, ambush By and by, immediately Bywaryed, expended, besto... ...-fore, before To-morn, to-morrow Took, gave To-rove, broke up To-shivered, broken to pieces Traced, advanced and retreated Trains, devices, wiles Trat...

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...One of a thwarted love, One at the hands of a brute in a brothel, One of a broken pride, in the search for heart’s desire; One after life in far-away ... ...outh and my beauty; Till at last, wrinkled and with yellow teeth, And with broken pride and shameful humility, I sank into the grave. But what think y... ...soul With a snare which bled me to death, Till I, once strong of will, lay broken, indifferent, Living with Nig in a room back of a dingy office. Unde... ... heave, And I shot up as the tank exploded, And down I came with both legs broken, And my eyes burned crisp as a couple of eggs. For someone left a bl... ...died— They indicted me, the newspapers disgraced me, My wife perished of a broken heart. And pneumonia finished me. Mrs. Meyers HE protested all his l... ...a, the clover nodded Under a summer wind, and little Paul came With clover blossoms to the window and smiled. Then I said: “What is “divine despair” A... ...he despair W as divine.” 106 Spoon River Anthology Mabel Osborne YOUR red blossoms amid green leaves Are drooping, beautiful geranium! But you do not... ... its ruined trunk and blasted branches, And shoots of green whose delicate blossoms Were sprinkled over the skeleton tangle, Never to grow in fruit. A... ...e senses numb Y et thinking of youth and the earth in youth,— Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time. O earth that leav...

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...do not let me die! Search the fading letters, finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I! 19 Edna St. Vincent Millay When these ... ... and from another wound That sprang, the heavily-sweet blue hyacinth, That blossoms underground, And sallow poppies, will be dear to her. And will not... ...it would seem a ruined place and after Your lichenous heart, being full Of broken columns, caryatides Thrown to the earth and fallen forward on their ... ..., surely, From the secret earth shall rise; Not for these I sit and stare, Broken and bereft completely; Your young flesh that sat so neatly On your l... ...ret earth restore. All your lovely words are spoken. Once the ivory box is broken, Beats the golden bird no more. 36 Second April DIR DIR DIR DIR DIR... ...relight to a lance extended, Bizarrely with the jazzing music blended, The broken shadow dances on the wall, I will permit my memory to recall The vis...

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...d Mahon to me, as we peered with lamps about the splin- tered bulwarks and broken braces. ‘But where’s the captain?’ “W e had not heard or seen anythi... ..., some kind of agent to somebody, ap- peared with full powers. He had grog blossoms all over his face, an indomitable energy, and was a jolly soul. We... ...l was of a safe kind, that cargo 15 Joseph Conrad had been so handled, so broken up with handling, that it looked more like smithy coal than anything... ...t sorry to sit down for a moment. My face felt raw, every limb ached as if broken, I was aware of all my ribs, and would have sworn to a twist in the ... ...nly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odors of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out of the still night—the first sigh of ... ...ed—for the under-writers. I eased my painter and fell alongside. He sat, a broken figure at the stern, wet with dew, his hands clasped in his lap. His... ...ened my eyes again the silence was as complete as though it had never been broken. I was lying in a flood of light, and the sky had never looked so fa...

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...ing couples unconsoled, And of her beauty mirror they become, Like orchard blossoms, apple, pear and plum, Free of the cloud, beneath the flood of gol... ...r deepest planted and her liveliest voice, Heard from the babe as from the broken crone. Behold him in his vessel of bronze encased, And tumbled down ... ...ral pace By men had slain me but for those you trace. —Look I once back, a broken pinion I: Black as the rebel angels rained from sky! —Needs must you... ...e fair-flower’d field of Scamander, their thousands Many as leaves and the blossoms born of the flowerful season. Even as countless hot-pressed flies ...

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...n, and one main high-road, which connects them; but even this high-road is broken by a ferry, over which every vehicle going from St. George to Hamilt... ...t tropical glory before his feet. The bright oleanders were red with their blossoms all around him, and he had thoroughly enjoyed his hour of easy res... ...creek over which the ferry passed. Immediately beneath their feet were the broken rocks; for on that side, towards the sea, the earth and grass of the... ...spot from whence he might have sprung at one leap into the ocean. It was a broken cranny on the sea-shore into which the sea beat, and surrounded on e... ... into which the sea beat, and surrounded on every side but the one by huge broken fragments of stone, which at first sight seemed as though they would...

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...ot is half upon it, It looks just like the rest, and yet that man Died broken-hearted. LEONARD. ’Tis a common case, We’... ...leasant Heritage; My Father many a happy year Here spread his careless blossoms, here Attain’d a good old age. Even such as his may be may lot... ... The butterfly, all green and gold, To me hath often flown, Here in my Blossoms to behold Wings lovely as his own. When grass is chill with ra... ...he steep hill’s edge They track’d the footmarks small; And through the broken hawthorn-hedge, And by the long stone-wall; And then an open fie... ... gone down. He spake of plants divine and strange That ev’ry day their blossoms change, Ten thousand lovely hues! With budding, fading, faded ... ...y way Until, at length, I came to one dear nook Unvisited, where not a broken bough Droop’d with its wither’d leaves, ungracious sign Of devas...

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... such passion- ate sobbing and weeping, that it seemed as if his heart had broken, and spilt its wild sorrows upon the ground. His un- restrained grie... ...le; then he lies there frightfully quiet, a dead heap of bruised flesh and broken bones! A quiver runs through the crushed mass; and no more movement ... ...ted; no evidences of responsive affection less positive than whispered and broken words, or tender pressures of the hand, allowed and half returned; o... ...ct, and graceful carriage. The miscellaneous herbage and tangled twigs and blossoms of her bundle, crowning her head (while her ruddy, comely face loo... ...om the windows of which hang ears of Indian corn. At a door, that has been broken through the massive stonework where it was meant to be strongest, so... ...le in them, even as the swallows nestle in the little crev- ices along the broken summit of the wall. Passing through the gateway of this same little ... ...e been when those customs were first imagined and adopted. But, instead of blossoms on the shrub, or freshly gathered, with the dewdrops on their leav... ... hundred reminiscences that were awakened by that remembered smell of dead blossoms; it was like open- ing a drawer, where many things were laid away,... ...summer will not be anticipated; we seek vainly for passionate flowers, and blossoms of fervid hue and spicy fragrance, finding only snowdrops and sunl...

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...I sing. My song sounds far and near, O’er ice it echoes clear, Then Winter blossoms bright; And when his blossoms fly, Fresh raptures meet mine eye, U... ...oo, What most charms a woman’s heart? It is doubtless what is new, For its blossoms joy impart; Nobler far is what is true, For fresh blossoms it can ... ...’s heart could surely never fall So soon away from me! As when a bird bath broken from his thrall, And seeks the forest green, Proof of imprisonment h... ...and strives, The Spring’s contented, If works and thrives. ‘Mongst all the blossoms That fairest are, My sweetheart’s sweetness Is sweetest far; Upon ... ... is introduced in Act II. of Claudine of Villa Bella, where it is suddenly broken off, as it is here. 148 Goethe The Erl-King. WHO rides there so lat... ...any a game I will play there with thee; On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold, My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.” “My fat... ...Venus’ radiant temple smiled on both. Mother! thou that promise since hast broken, Fetter’d by a strange, deceitful oath. 192 Goethe Gods, th... ...other, I entreat thee, Let me not another’s wife be ever, Lest my heart be broken at the image Of my poor, my dearly-cherish’d children!” T o her pray... ...the turns Of the thundering wheel; The last one I bless.— Each bar then is broken, I’m free then as thou! 1767. 219 Goethe MAHOMET’S SONG. [This song...

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...listening to that sentry’s moans and jumps, And the wild chattering of his broken teeth, Renewed most horribly whenever crumps Pummelled the roof and ... ...dazed, Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed, Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. Is it that we are dy...

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... the Doctor, fancying himself fractured in fifty places. “Some of them are broken, surely, and, methinks, my heart has leaped out of my mouth! What! a... ... good for my feeble old heart, Pansie, though it might do little to mend a broken neck; so give grandpapa another dose, and let us to breakfast.” In t... ...ation, as if with a sense that he had gone irrevocably out of fashion, and broken his con- necting links with the net-work of human life; or else it w... ...and sent forth a full- breathed roar of sympathy and alarm. “Grandpapa has broken his neck now!” cried little Pansie, amid her sobs. “Kiss grandpapa, ... ...ught himself of a way to grow rich. Sometimes this latter spring causes—as blossoms come on the autumnal tree—a spurt of vigor, or untimely greenness,... ...—with a peculiar fury, as if he took umbrage at his audacity in being less broken by age than a gentleman like himself. The apothecary could not help ...

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...LVII THE gentian weaves her fringes, The maple’s loom is red. My departing blossoms Obviate parade. A brief, but patient illness, An hour to prepare; ... ...olemn in the tree, As if some caravan of sound On deserts, in the sky, Had broken rank, Then knit, and passed In seamless company. 125 LXX... ... Our life, his porcelain, Like a cup Discarded of the housewife, Quaint or broken; A newer Sèvres pleases, Old ones crack. I could not die with you, F... ...w, Or who died yesterday! 164 XXXV Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel... ... And oriole are done! For thee to bloom, I ’ll skip the tomb And sow my blossoms o’er! Pray gather me, Anemone, Thy flower forevermore! 167 ... ...e costumes grandsires wore. L NOT with a club the heart is broken, Nor with a stone; A whip, so small you could not see it, I I’ve kno... ...ndrous dear, As for the lost we grapple, Though all the rest are here,— In broken mathematics We estimate our prize, Vast, in its fading ratio, T o ou... ...ncoln Green, Or Bluebeard’s galleries. Her Bees have a fictitious hum, Her Blossoms, like a dream, Elate—until we almost weep So plausible they seem. ...

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...ply striking the sensitive body of the instru- ment. The second string had broken near Christmas, but no one had heard the faint moan of its going. Th... ...e comb. He grinned to himself. This was the summary of his domestic life—a broken, coarse comb, a child crying because her hair was lugged, a wife who... ... Leaning forward, she could see the line of grey sand and the line of foam broken by black rocks, and over all the gulls, stirring round like froth on... ...ers withal. In them the sea and the sky and ships had mingled and bred new blossoms of the torrid heat of their love. And the seed of such blossoms wa... ...called to him to come and look in the lovely little rock-pools, dusky with blossoms of red anemones and brown anemones that seemed nothing but shadows... ... more golden. ‘I envy the savages their free feet,’ she said. ‘There is no broken glass in the wilderness—or there used not to be,’ he replied. As the... ... were gone. Only the pier-light, far away, shone in the black sea like the broken piece of a star. Overhead was a silver-greyness of stars; below was ... ... foxglove bell from the stalk. There 110 The Trespasser were only two red blossoms left. Then the stem would have set to seed. Helena leaned her head... ...and love, and beauty, and of sunshine, he was prostrate. Like a plant that blossoms gorgeously and madly, he had wasted the tissue of his strength, so...

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...an you would fancy. Mr. Schram’s, on the other hand, is the oldest vine- yard in the valley, eighteen years old, I think; yet he began a penniless bar... ...scene; one of the houses was now the school-house far down the road; one was gone here, one there, but all were gone away. It was now a sylvan solitud... ...lem. Here, moun- tain and house and the old tools of industry were all alike rusty and downfalling. The hill was here wedged up, and there poured fort... ...canyon was a glimpse of devasta- tion; dry red minerals sliding together, here and there a crag, here and there dwarf thicket clinging in the gen- era... ... “What’s this?” said he. It contained a granulated powder, something the colour of Gregory’s Mixture, but rosier; and as there were sev- eral of the b... ...as an endless wonder to my mind, as I dreamed about the platform, following the progress of the shadows, where the madrona with its leaves, the azalea...

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...in a marble vase in the midst of the pool, that bore a profusion of purple blossoms, each of which had the lustre and richness of a gem; and the whole... ...hese words the beautiful daughter of Rappaccini plucked one of the richest blossoms of the shrub, and was about to fasten it in her bosom. But now, un... ...nute,—it appeared to him, however, that a drop or two of moisture from the broken stem of the flower descended upon the lizard’s head. For an instant ... ...it was opened, there came the sight and sound of rustling leaves, with the broken sunshine glimmering among them. Giovanni stepped forth, and, forcing... ...ad gained admittance. She came lightly along the path and met him near the broken fountain. There was surprise in her face, but brightened by a simple... ...ue,—you likewise are deeply skilled in the virtues indicated by these rich blossoms and these spicy perfumes. Would you deign to be my instructress, I... ...n, beside which grew the magnifi cent shrub, with its treasury of glowing blossoms. A fragrance was diffused from it which Giovanni recognized as ide... ...ce, with a low moan out of her heart. “Holy Virgin, pity me, a poor heart broken child!” “Thou,—dost thou pray?” cried Giovanni, still with the same ... ...rds! No, no; there could be no such hope. She must pass heavily, with that broken heart, across the borders of Time—she must bathe her hurts in some f...

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.......................................................... 49 FRAGMENT: SATAN BROKEN LOOSE. ................................................................ ...les are fled _25 Whose falsehood left thee broken-hearted; The glory of the moon is dead; Night’s ghosts and dreams ha... ...ght, Which when the starry waters sleep, Round western isles, with incense-blossoms bright, _40 Lingering, suspends my soul in its voluptuous fl... ... edition. Her voice did quiver as we parted, Yet knew I not that heart was broken From which it came, and I departed Heeding not the words then spoken... ...ENT GMENT GMENT: SA : SA : SA : SA : SAT T T T TAN BR AN BR AN BR AN BR AN BROKEN L OKEN L OKEN L OKEN L OKEN LOOSE. OOSE. OOSE. OOSE. OOSE. Published... ... _5 Knew that strife was now begun. They knew that Satan had broken his chain, And with millions of daemons in his train, Was ranging ov... ...rs Which we buried in Love’s sweet bowers, Heaping over their corpses cold Blossoms and leaves, instead of mould? Blossoms which were the joys that fe... ...the sweet tuberose, The sweetest flower for scent that blows; And all rare blossoms from every clime Grew in that garden in perfect prime. ... ...w lush eglantine, Green cowbind and the moonlight-coloured may, And cherry-blossoms, and white cups, whose wine W as the bright dew, yet drained not b...

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...led the view from my hill top tame; and so, no doubt, it was, after rough, broken, rugged, head long Berkshire, and especially the northern parts of ... ...” “It would, indeed,” answered I. “The summer house itself, so airy and so broken, is like one of those old tales, imperfectly remembered; and these l... ...d long rush against Theseus, had not missed him, by a hair’s breadth, and broken one of his horns short off against the stone wall. On this mishap, h... ...eive his antagonist with naked arms. “Step forward,” cried he. “Since I’ve broken your pine tree, we’ll try which is the better man at a wrestling mat... ...d on the grass, the child was almost hidden under an abundance of buds and blossoms, whence her rosy face peeped merrily out, and, as Cadmus said, was... ...on no other food than rosebuds, or at least, the most delicate of clo ver blossoms. Never before did a bull have such bright and tender eyes, and suc... ...ime (not less than a hundred years or thereabouts) since the mon ster had broken his fast; and, as was natural enough, his ap petite had grown to be... ...st their bloom; and wishing to give her friends the freshest and loveliest blossoms, she strayed farther into the fields, and found some that made her... ...her. Proserpina’s apron was soon filled, and brimming over with delightful blossoms. She was on the point of turning back in order to rejoin the sea n...

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...ly that all this was business, I supposed. But my ab- surd mate, muttering broken disjointed sentences, such as: “I cannot bear! … Mark my words! …” a... ... scent passed like wandering, fragrant souls of that departed multitude of blossoms. I talked volubly, jocu- larly, persuasively, tenderly; I talked i... ... chair (there were several standing about) and I perceived the chance of a broken head at the end of all this—most likely. My mortification was extrem... ...ormous censer swing- ing before the altar of the stars. The colours of the blossoms deepened, losing their glow one by one. The girl, when I turned my... ...your father. Y es, I am in fact doing exactly what he wants me to do. I’ve broken my promise to you. That’s the sort of man I am. And now—aren’t you a...