Nature-Notes and Impressions, in Prose and Verse
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150083815
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... V-or J NATURE-NOTES and IMPRESSIONS Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.--Wordsworth. 1883-I886 IHAVE not delved in the ruins of antiquity, nor moralized upon the past, as Byron did, but have kept, or tried to keep, two lines of Keats, two lines of Endymion, forever in mind while writing, and striven to the uttermost to make my lines worthy the text. (fHgHgHfHgt Lead me, thou Bard of Beauty, through those caves Of pale Diana let me hear the moan Of Ocean, sorrowing with all his waves As once he sorrowed on that Island lone In siren moonlight. Here, where twilight paves The woodland paths, I seem to hear her trail Dim raiment; her, that damsel who enslaves My soul; that Beauty, sad, divinely pale, That haunts thy song, mastering the gamut whole Of dreams and music; on whose easeful breast, --As once Endymion's head, soft-dreaming, pressed That Indian maiden's bosom, --rests my soul. O let me sing as thou didst, Keats, and die With soul poured on the circling starry night; When Dian's lune hangs dewy in the sky, And the wild nightingale with anguished might Bewails in some dense bramble's spicy dusk Its old heart-sorrow to the wild rose wan; Or let me, like thyself, drink in the musk Of some dull draught from Lethe's waters drawn, And sink, as thou didst, into dreamless sleep, Where disappointment, heartache, grief and scorn, And human misery can no longer heap The soul that treads life's path set round with thorn; Ay fall asleep, as thou didst fall asleep Under the alien skies, of hope forlorn In the forest of music often and often, To the murmuring song of the winds and waters, Have our spirits mingled and mixed In the wildflower dance of the Hours On the mossy carpet under the whispering leaves: Or wandered, hand in shadowy hand, Beneath t...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150083815 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150083816 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 106 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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