Wrinkles: From the Brow of Experience, and Other PoemsJames Woodmansee, 1860 - 179 páginas |
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... his Brow , wise lesson is To Wisdom's self , not found in all the books ; And one by one , I pluck them off at will , To gem the crown on Wisdom's hoary brow . Wrinkles , FROM THE BROW OF EXPERIENCE . WRINKLE I. EXPERIENCE . 11.
... his Brow , wise lesson is To Wisdom's self , not found in all the books ; And one by one , I pluck them off at will , To gem the crown on Wisdom's hoary brow . Wrinkles , FROM THE BROW OF EXPERIENCE . WRINKLE I. EXPERIENCE . 11.
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... . Man , with Perfection , is not bless'd , - The Rose , with every beauty dress'd , Is queen of Flowers - the Garden's gem , But , many thorns are on her stem ! 2 SIN . WRINKLE I. Perversity all o'er , Corruption to WRINKLES . 17.
... . Man , with Perfection , is not bless'd , - The Rose , with every beauty dress'd , Is queen of Flowers - the Garden's gem , But , many thorns are on her stem ! 2 SIN . WRINKLE I. Perversity all o'er , Corruption to WRINKLES . 17.
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... gem divine - Religion his . IV . Religion is the soul's new birth , And its celestial day , - The spirit's comforter and guide . Life's heavenly ecstacy . CHRISTIAN . WRINKLE I. His Heaven - oped eye looks upward to his God , And ...
... gem divine - Religion his . IV . Religion is the soul's new birth , And its celestial day , - The spirit's comforter and guide . Life's heavenly ecstacy . CHRISTIAN . WRINKLE I. His Heaven - oped eye looks upward to his God , And ...
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... gem That's worth the seeking this side Paradise ; His brow wears frowns for Folly , Sin and Crime ; His eye is single , and is full of light- Heaven in his eye and God in all his thoughts . Wisdom , from tongue of truth , as manna falls ...
... gem That's worth the seeking this side Paradise ; His brow wears frowns for Folly , Sin and Crime ; His eye is single , and is full of light- Heaven in his eye and God in all his thoughts . Wisdom , from tongue of truth , as manna falls ...
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... gems life's crown with heavenly Virtues all , And loves his God ' bove all things else beside : - Good - deeds , do track his path of life as thick And bright , as Milky - way the firmament . He useth time , to get well out of time ...
... gems life's crown with heavenly Virtues all , And loves his God ' bove all things else beside : - Good - deeds , do track his path of life as thick And bright , as Milky - way the firmament . He useth time , to get well out of time ...
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Angel Apocrypha Babe beautiful Beelzebub behold bless'd blood breath bright brow celestial Christian Closing Scene crown Daguerreotypes dark Death Deity divine doth dreadful dreams dust dwells E'en e'er Earth Eolian Epic Eternity evermore face fall fell fire foes Folly Folly's fools forever Frail gems Genius give glory God's grave groan happy Harp hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell holy Homer Iliad immortal Invocation Jesus John Calvin King Life's light little heaven live look'd looks loveliness lyre Man-the Man's mankind mighty Milton mind Mortality Mother Nature's neath night o'er Paradise Paradise Lost Peace Poem Pollok Religion Renown robe round sacred Satan Savior silly fool sleep smile song soul soul's speak spirit stars sublime sweet tears thee things thou thought thro throne Time's tomb tongue Truth Typhon vale Virtue Virtue's wakes weep wing Wisdom wonder Woodmansee WRINKLE Yond
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Página 177 - Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream.
Página 177 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, 195 Lay floating many a rood...
Página 177 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 163 - Hold my right hand, Almighty ! and me teach To strike the lyre, but seldom struck, to notes Harmonious with the morning stars, and pure As those by sainted bards and angels sung, Which wake the echoes of Eternity ; That fools may hear and tremble, and the wise, Instructed, listen of ages yet to come.
Página 46 - ... months a professing Christian. Her :race was short, and her end triumphant. O glorious hope of immortality ! O transporting thought ! Julia yet lives, and lives for ever. Surely if there is any one word that carries peculiar sweetness in its sound, it is this word immortality. It is this that dries the tear that falls upon the urn of those we love. It is this that reconciles the soul to