Laurel Leaves: Original Poems, Stories, and EssaysWilliam Fearing Gill William F. Gill, 1875 - 426 sivua |
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Abel Alfred Fredericks ALFRED TENNYSON AMALFI ancestors asked beauty Brother Cap'm Captain Glover Charley Vanderhuyn Christmas dark dear delight dream Dutchman earth eyes face Fair Haven fellow Flying Dutchman fret Gilbert Goethe Hammatt Billings hand Hardhack Hasheesh Club heard heart heaven Henry Vail hippocampus Huckleberry Street human knew Lafayette land leave Leonardo Libergen light lips live look Louis La Cruche LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Mariana Mary Anne mind Miss La Pierre monkey moonglade never night NORA PERRY Pauline Poe's poet poor posterior cornu reply Robert Lewis sail seemed ship sighed sight Sister Hope smile soul story sweet tell thee things THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON thou thought Timon to-day took tourist turned unto the pitcher wait waves WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind words young youth
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Sivu ix - In the middle of the town, From its fountains in the hills, Tumbling through the narrow gorge, The Canneto rushes down, Turns the great wheels of the mills, Lifts the hammers of the forge.
Sivu 140 - A mild snore seemed to echo the last word of Abel's rhapsody, for Brother Moses had succumbed to mundane slumber and sat nodding like a massive ghost. Forest Absalom, the silent man, and John Pease, the English member, now departed to the barn; and Mrs. Lamb led her flock to a temporary fold, leaving the founders of the "Consociate Family" to build castles in the air till the fire went out and the symposium ended in smoke.
Sivu 358 - I can call to mind no act of my life which would bring a blush to my cheek — or to yours. If I have erred at all in this regard, it has been on the side of what the world, would call a Quixotic sense of the honorable — of the chivalrous.
Sivu 226 - Qd Sir John, your lordship knows that I am no scholar. 'Tis no matter, said my lord, I know what a scholar can say : I would know what you can say. Sir John read it, and gave his opinion what he misliked, (which I am sorry I have forgot,) which my lord acknowledged to be true, and mended it. ' Why,' said he, > a scholar would never have told me this.
Sivu 344 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!
Sivu 140 - Thus drudgery and disorder will be avoided and harmony prevail. We shall rise at dawn, begin the day by bathing, followed by music, and then a chaste repast of fruit and bread. Each one finds congenial occupation till the meridian meal; when some deep-searching conversation gives rest to the body and development to the mind. Healthful labor again engages us till the last meal, when we assemble in social communion, prolonged till sunset, when we retire to sweet repose, ready for the next day's activity.
Sivu 148 - With this cold comfort, Timon departed with his son, and was absorbed into the Shaker brotherhood, where he soon found that the order of things was reversed, and it was all work and no play. Then the tragedy began for the forsaken little family. Desolation and despair fell upon Abel. As his wife said, his new beliefs had alienated many friends. Some thought him mad, some unprincipled. Even the most kindly thought him a visionary, whom it was useless to help till he took more practical views of life....
Sivu 145 - Jane fled from the room to pack her trunk and return to a world where fishes' tails were not forbidden fruit. Transcendental wild oats were sown broadcast that year, and the fame thereof has not yet ceased in the land; for, futile as this crop seemed to outsiders, it bore an invisible harvest, worth much to those who planted in earnest. As none of the members of this particular community have ever recounted their experiences before, a few of them may not be amiss, since the interest in these attempts...
Sivu 140 - Timon had so faithfully carried out his idea of "being, not doing," that she had found his "divine growth" both an expensive and unsatisfactory process. Here her husband struck into the conversation, his face shining with the light and joy of the splendid dreams and high ideals hovering before him. "In these steps of reform, we do not rely so much on scientific reasoning or physiological skill as on the spirit's dictates. The greater part of man's duty consists in leaving alone much that he now does....
Sivu 141 - ... this graceful task, found when about half through the job that each had been sowing a different sort of grain in the same field; a mistake which caused much perplexity, as it could not be remedied ; but, after a long consultation and a good deal of laughter, it was decided to say nothing and see what would come of it. The garden was planted with a generous supply of useful roots and herbs; but, as manure was not allowed to profane the virgin soil, few of these vegetable treasures ever came up....