Poems, by E B Barrett
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217741057
Paperback|9780217741057
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A RHAPSODY OF LIFE'S PROGRESS. ' Fill all the stops of life with tuneful breath.' Poems On Man, By Cornelii's Mathews. We are borne into life?it is sweet, it is strange. We lie still on the knee of a mild Mystery, Which smiles with a change But -we doubt not of changes, we know not of spaces, The Heavens seem as near as our own mother's face is, And we think we could touch all the stars that we see; And the milk of our mother is white on our mouth; And, with small childish hands, we are turning around The apple of Life which another has found; It is warm with our touch, not with sun of the south, And we count, as we turn it, the red side for four. O Life, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange evermore, A small volume, by an American poet?as remarkable in thought and manner for a vital sinewy vigour, as the right arm of Pathfinder. 1844. Then all things look strange in the pure golden aether: We walk through the gardens with hands linked together, And the lilies look large as the trees; And as loud as the birds, sing the bloom-loving bees, And the birds sing like angels, so mystical-fine, And the cedars are brushing the archangel's feet, And time is eternity, love is divine, And the world is complete. Now, God bless the child, ?father, mother, respond O Life, O Beyond, Thou art strange, thou art sweet. Then we leap on the earth with the armour of youth, And the earth rings again. And we breathe out, 'O beauty, '?we cry out, 'O truth, ' And the bloom of our lips drops with wine. And our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline, The earth cleaves to the foot, the sun burns to the brain, ? What is this exultation? and what this despair' The strong pleasure is smiting the nerves into pain. And we drop from the Fair as w...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217741057 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217741053 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 194 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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