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Alick American Notes amongst angels beauty beneath birds Blithedale Romance bosom bright calm Christmas rose cold cuckoo dark dead dear death deep Deepdale divine Dora dream dreary earth eyes face faded faint fall fancy far-off feel feeling possessed flowers forest gaze gleam gloom glorious glory glowing God's golden gone grave green green islands hand Hawthorne hear heard heart heaven holy hope hour hymn infinite influence leaves light linger listened live look Margaret Fuller meadows melody memory midst Millthorp minstrel boy mystery Nathaniel Hawthorne Nature Neckar never night noble o'er old church Pantheism passed peace quiet reverie Rhine rill Romance sacred Scarlet Letter seemed shadows silent sing smile solemn song sorrow soul sound speak spirit stars stream summer sunlight sunset sweet tender thou thought twilight uncon vicarage voice wandering wayside window wondrous words young in heart
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Page 166 - Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear, It is not night if thou be near ; Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.
Page 165 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide; 'Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?' I fondly ask: but Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his state Is kingly: thousands...
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Page 296 - Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
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Page 271 - Now I look back, and meadow, manse, and stream Dimly my thought defines ; I only see — a dream within a dream — The hill-top hearsed with pines. I only hear above his place of rest Their tender undertone, The infinite longings of a troubled breast, The voice so like his own. There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen. And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished...
Page 296 - Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Wayside wells; or, Thoughts from Deepdale |
| Author | Alexander Lamont |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton, 1874 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 31, 2006 |
| Length | 374 pages |
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