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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: The skies looked coldly down As on a royal crown; Then with drop for drop, at leisure, They began to rain for pleasure. Whereat the earth did seem To waken from a dream, Winter-frozen, winter-frozen, Her unquiet eyes unclosing? Said to the Eose, ' Ha, snow And art thou fallen so ? Thou, who wast enthroned stately All along my mountains lately ? ' Holla, thou world-wide snow i And art thou wasted so, With a little bough to catch thee, And a little bee to watch thee ? ?Poor Rose, to be misknown Would she had ne'er been blown, In her loneness, in her loneness, All the sadder for that oneness Some word she tried to say, Some no . . . ah, wellaway But the passion did o'ercome her, And the fair frail leaves dropped from her. ?Dropped from her, fair and mute, Close to a poet's foot, Who beheld them, smiling slowly, As at something sad yet holy, ? Said, ' Verily and thus ' It chances too with ws Poets, singing sweetest snatches While that deaf men keep the watches: ' Vaunting to come before Our own age evermore, In a loneness, in a loneness, And the nobler for that oneness. ' Holy in voice and heart, To high ends, set apart: All unmated, all unmated, Just because so consecrated. ' But if alone we be, Where is our empery ? And if none can reach our staturo, Who can mete our lofty nature ? ' What bell will yield a tone, Swung in the air alone ? If no brazen clapper bringing, Who can hear the chimed ringing ? ' What angel but would seem To sensual eyes, ghost-dim ? And without assimilation, Vain is inter-penetration. ' And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too, Who both antedate our mission In an unprepared season ? ' Drop, leaf be silent, song Cold things we come among: We must...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217530668 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217530664 |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 186 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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