The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 21Atlantic Monthly Company, 1868 - American essays |
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... leave some sign , When I am but a name and memory , That I have loved them . Haply , in the years That wait to take the places of our own , Whispered upon some breezy balcony Fronting the hills , or where the lake in the moon Sleeps ...
... leave some sign , When I am but a name and memory , That I have loved them . Haply , in the years That wait to take the places of our own , Whispered upon some breezy balcony Fronting the hills , or where the lake in the moon Sleeps ...
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... leave of pride or fashion When silken zone or homespun frock It stirs with throbs of passion . " You think me deaf and blind ; you bring Your winning graces hither As free as if from cradle - time We two had played together . " You ...
... leave of pride or fashion When silken zone or homespun frock It stirs with throbs of passion . " You think me deaf and blind ; you bring Your winning graces hither As free as if from cradle - time We two had played together . " You ...
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... leave me as you found me . " You go as lightly as you came , Your life is well without me ; What care you that these hills will close Like prison - walls about me ? " No mood is mine to seek a wife , Or daughter for my mother ; Who ...
... leave me as you found me . " You go as lightly as you came , Your life is well without me ; What care you that these hills will close Like prison - walls about me ? " No mood is mine to seek a wife , Or daughter for my mother ; Who ...
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... leave phials of cold water , twenty drops every eight hours , — to be measured precisely , as twenty - five drops would occasion spasms . All my patients would get well . " - self ! " By this time they had reached the house , rather to ...
... leave phials of cold water , twenty drops every eight hours , — to be measured precisely , as twenty - five drops would occasion spasms . All my patients would get well . " - self ! " By this time they had reached the house , rather to ...
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... leave of her lovers , and came into the house . She had afforded excuse enough to the swains for lingering while she looked so bewitching in her cloak , but perhaps they would not have gone at all if she had received them in home array ...
... leave of her lovers , and came into the house . She had afforded excuse enough to the swains for lingering while she looked so bewitching in her cloak , but perhaps they would not have gone at all if she had received them in home array ...
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Page 56 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike; And like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 226 - The question fairly stated is, Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?
Page 385 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall : The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 482 - That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free.
Page 555 - Little improvement can be expected in morality until the producing large families is regarded with the same feelings as drunkenness or any other physical excess. But while the aristocracy and clergy are foremost to set the example of this kind of incontinence, what can be expected from the poor?
Page 609 - sa narrow ridge in the graveyard Would scarce stay a child in his race, But to me and my thought it is wider Than the star-sown vague of Space.
Page 108 - If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed; and here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent.
Page 286 - The number was not so great as we expected; and tho' they had been of great use, yet some inconveniences occurring for want of due care of them, the collection, after about a year, was separated and each took his books home again. And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library.
Page 370 - He scarce believes he's older for his years. Thus, at life's latest eve, we keep in store One disappointment sure, to crown the rest; The disappointment of a promis'd hour.
Page 610 - Communion in spirit! Forgive me, But I, who am earthy and weak, Would give all my incomes from dreamland For a touch of her hand on my cheek. That little shoe in the corner, So worn and wrinkled and brown, With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down.