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. 1895 Excerpt: ... weal; Drawing a man to the gates of sin Or hedging him in With a holy veil, Against which Hell's gates cannot prevail--O hide me there! Safe from care, Wrapt in the cloud of a fair woman's hair, Beautiful, beautiful hair. AGAINST the sombre pines the white storm whirls, Below a felted sky, wan-hued as death, While all ...
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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. 1895 Excerpt: ... weal; Drawing a man to the gates of sin Or hedging him in With a holy veil, Against which Hell's gates cannot prevail--O hide me there! Safe from care, Wrapt in the cloud of a fair woman's hair, Beautiful, beautiful hair. AGAINST the sombre pines the white storm whirls, Below a felted sky, wan-hued as death, While all the woods are rimed with Winter's breath, The trunks ice-mailed; sleet cuts; the wild wind hurls The damp and clogging flakes, and rhythmic sings, In wailing words of chanted under-song, As in the lee the wave-like drift it flings, A rune of things unfathomed, old and strange and strong. STORM-LESSON. 1. II. The East is pale as pearl; faint stripes of red, Athwart, burn clear and fine, the fields are white And drawn with drifts curl-lipped like shells; the Night Hath banished Storm; the Winds, wide-winged, are fled, And with the sun, lo!--all the world hath gems And fire of stabbing sparks and jewels a-cling To crystal twigs and spangled sprays and stems--While tinkling on the crust the falling ice-casts ring. in. O Nature, mother, sweet and fierce and kind, Strange, beautiful or passionate or grave, From thee are all the things that slay or save, That give us ease or dread, that loose or bind; And, we, of thee begotten, have the germs And rudiments of that thy largeness hath. Thou canst no more, and I accept thy terms And wage with thee no silly war of whining wrath. Genius is intuition, innate force and the passionate desire to do a perfect thing. MY WITCH FLAMES. THE witch, Flame, stept on a kindling stick, And leapt with a bound to the apex, quick, Scattering abroad her blazing hair, Waving weird arms, wild, red, and bare. Tossing her smoke-blue mantle o'er, With a crackling laugh, half-hiss, half-roar, Licking the logs with her l...
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