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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... A LIFE-MAMA. SCENE I.--An Antique Room: Midnight. Walter, Reading from a paper on which he has been writing. As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes, Sees in sweet dreams a beaming Youth of Glory, And wakes to weep, and ever after, sighs For that bright vision till her hair is hoary; Ev'n so, alas is my life's-passion story. For Poesy my heart and pulses beat, For Poesy my blood runs red and fleet, As Aaron's serpent the Egyptians' swallow'd, One passion eats the rest. My soul is follow'd By strong ambition to out-roll a lay, Whose melody will haunt the world for aye, Charming it onward on its golden way. Tears the paper and paces the room with disordered steps. Oh, that my heart were quiet as a grave Asleep in moonlight For, as a torrid sunset boils with gold Up to the zenith, fierce within my soul A passion burns from basement to the cope. Poesy Poesy I 'd give to thee, As passionately, my rich-laden years, My bubble pleasures, and my awful joys, As Hero gave her trembling sighs to find Delicious death on wet Leander's lip. Bare, bald, and tawdry, as a fingered moth, Is my poor life, but with one smile thou canst Clothe me with kingdoms. Wilt thou smile on me? Wilt bid me die for thee? O fair and cold As well may some wild maiden waste her love Upon the calm front of a marble Jove. I cannot draw regard of thy great eyes. I love thee, Poesy Thou art a rock, I, a weak wave, would break on thee and die. There is a deadlier pang than that which beads With chilly death-drops the o'er-tortured brow, When one has a big heart and feeble hands, --A heart to hew his name out upon time As on a rock, then in immortalness To stand on time as on a pedestal; When hearts beat to this tune, and hands are weak, We find our aspirations quenched in..
| ISBN-13 | 9781458897343 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458897346 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 108 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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