The Vassar Miscellany, 22 tomas

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Vassar College., 1892

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93 psl. - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
15 psl. - I write of hell ; I sing (and ever shall) Of heaven, and hope to have it after all.
13 psl. - Ah Ben! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
262 psl. - Grudge every minute as it passes by, Made the more mindful that the sweet days die — Remember me a little then I pray, The idle singer of an empty day. The heavy trouble, the bewildering care That weighs us down who live and earn our bread...
139 psl. - Naked from out that far abyss behind us We entered here: No word came with our coming, to remind us What wondrous world was near, No hope, no fear.
94 psl. - I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.
162 psl. - Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
16 psl. - WHEN HE WOULD HAVE HIS VERSES READ. In sober mornings, do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse ; But when that men have both well drunk, and fed, Let my enchantments then be sung or read. When laurel spirts i...
139 psl. - I cannot weave one chord To float into their hearts my last warm word, Before I go. I would be satisfied if I might tell, Before I go, That one warm word, —how I have loved them well, Could they but know! And would have gained for them some gleam of good; Have sought it long; still seek, — if but I could! Before I go. 'T is a child's longing, on the beach at play: "Before I go," He begs the beckoning mother, " Let me stay One shell to throw!
118 psl. - My dear Brown, for my sake, be her advocate for ever. I cannot say a word about Naples; I do not feel at all concerned in the thousand novelties around me. I am afraid to write to her. I should like her to know that I do not forget her. Oh, Brown, I have coals of fire in my breast. It surprises me that the human heart is capable of containing and bearing so much misery.

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