Poems of Many Years and Many Places
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217863605
Paperback|9780217863605
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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. 1881. Excerpt: ... I stand with gray old Noah; and lo in Heaven, The shining covenant of the living God O'erhangs the clouded peak of Ararat; Whose every chasm and awful ravine roars With the retiring Deluge " Father God With Splendors and Dominions, Thrones and Powers, With angel and archangel, man bows down In reverent adoration, whensoe'er Creation shadows forth Thy arm of might But Thou hast blessed us in the Beautiful, Which erowneth all things, --bole and stem with blooms. The exhalation with the sunset's pomp. The human impulse, climbing to the light; It charms this headlong and remorseless tide; The everlasting turbulence is Thine, But Thine, too, is the smiling Bow of Grace; Aud Thine--though earth may quake and thunder peal--The still small voice, that whispers, Peace--and Love THE APPROACH OF MARS, 1877. A DUSK as of the gods Grows rich the sky In planets, bearing names of gods, whose eyes Shoot lightnings on an age that dares deny Them and all manner of divinities. Alone Love's planet, the pure Star of Even, Sinks in the sun's departing splendor soon; While Jupiter's white disk in southern heaven Is kindling, and flouts up the harvest moon--Floats up, but lurid in eclipse. Oh hide In the earth's shadow, Queen of fruitful Night Tread closer in those shining footprints--glide, Venus Urania, to the sheltering Light For lo a planet, red as if with ire, Rides lord of the ascendant: as he comes, The air is shaken as with the wind of fire, As with a trumpet's call or roll of drums: A planet hostile to all arts of peace, To golden harvest, and to happy home, Ruled by the Ares of distracted Greece, The conquering Mars of sanguinary Rome. Move from eclipse, O moon Unknown before. Mars shows us moons to match thy circle soft; So near the two worlds draw, like shi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217863605 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217863604 |
| 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 | 104 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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