Identifier: illustratedpoems02sigo (find matches)
Title: Illustrated poems
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888, illus
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hey grew, And smiling bore awayOn lip and cheek the diamond dew That glittering deckd their spray.The bud, on which no eye hath glanced. Save His who formd its pride,Seemd as a sister to my heart. For it had none beside. 340 FLOWERS IN CHILDHOOD AND AGE. Then countless gay and fairy forms Gleamd by, on pinions rare,And many a castles turret bright Was pictured on the air;For Fancy held me so in thrall. And peopled every scene,That flowers might only fill the space A thousand joys between. But as lifes river nears its goal, And glittering bubbles break,The love of flowers is like his grasp Whom stronger props forsake.Who, drifting toward some wintry clime, Hangs oer the vessels side.To snatch one faded wreath of hope From out the whelming tide. Like his, who on the isthmus stands Whose ever-crumbling vergeDivides the weary race of time From deaths advancing surge,And sees, to cheer its dreary strand. Pale Memorys leaflets start.And binds them as a blessed balm To heal his lonely heart.
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Awhile he paused THE DIVIDED BURDEN. 341 THE DIVIDED BURDEN. I SAW a boy wlio towards his cottage homeA heavy burden bore. The way was steepAnd rocky, and his little loaded armStraind downward to its full extent, while wideThe other horizontally was thrown.As if to counterpoise the painful weightThat drew him towards the earth. A while he pausedAnd set his burden down, just where the pathGrew more precipitous, and wiped his browWith his worn sleeve, and panting breathed long draughtsOf the sweet air, while the hot summer sunFlamed oer his forehead. But another boy,Neath a cool poplar in a neighbouring field.Sat playing with his dog; and from the grassUprising, with light bound the coppice cleard,And lent a vigorous hand to share the toil.So on they went together, grasping firm 342 THE DIVIDED BURDEN. The baskets handle with a right good will; And while their young, clear voices met my ear, I recollected how the Bible said, Bear one anothers burdens, and perceived That to obey Gods wor

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