Fugitive Poetry, 1600-1878, Compiled and Ed. by J.C. Hutchieson

Fugitive Poetry, 1600-1878, Compiled and Ed. by J.C. Hutchieson by J C Hutchieson

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Author: J C Hutchieson
Page Count: 182 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781236214225
File size: 45 Mb
Download Link: Fugitive Poetry, 1600-1878, Compiled and Ed. by J.C. Hutchieson
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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. 1878 Excerpt: ...stand upon the shore, And see the treasure of my soul depart for evermore! I know, my child!--I know it, the folly and the sin, But oh! I think my heart would burst to keep this anguish in--To think how in yon sleeping town such happy mothers be, Who keep their many sons at home, while I--I had but thee! But I have done; I murmur not; I kiss the chastening rod, Upon this hill--as Abraham did--I give my child to God! But not, like him, to welcome back the precious thing once given, I'll see my fair son's face again--but not on this side Heaven J YOUNG AGAIN. An old man sits in a high-backed chair, Before an open door, While the sun of a summer afternoon Falls hot across the floor; And the drowsy tick of an ancient clock Has notched the hour of four. A breeze blows in and a breeze blows out, From the scented, summer air; And it flutters now on his wrinkled brow, And now it lifts his hair; And the leaden lid of his eye droops down, And he sleeps in his high-backed chair. 278 LINES BY A YOUNG LADY BORN BLIND. The old man sleeps, and the old man dreams; His head droops on his breast, His hands relax their feeble hold, And fall to his lap in rest: The old man sleeps, and in sleep he dreams, And in dreams again is blest. The years unroll their fearful scroll--He is a child again; A mother's tones are in his ear, And drift across his brain; He chases gaudy butterflies Far down the rolling plain; He plucks the wild rose in the woods, And gathers eglantine; And holds the golden buttercups Beneath his sister's chin; And angles in the meadow brook With a bent and naked pin; He loiters down the grassy land, And by the brimming pool; And a sigh escapes the parting lips, As he hears the bell for school; ' And he wishes it were one o'clock, And the morning never dull. A mo...

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