Poems - Softcover

Henry Timrod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425511147 ISBN 13: 9781425511142

Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2006

Synopsis

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. 1899. Excerpt: ... A VISION OF POESY Part I In a far country, and a distant age, Ere sprites and fays had bade farewell to earth, A boy was born of humble parentage; The stars that shone upon his lonely birth Did seem to promise sovereignty and fame--Yet no tradition hath preserved his name. Ii 'T is said that on the night when he was born, A beauteous shape swept slowly through the room; Its eyes broke on the infant like a morn, And his cheek brightened like a rose in bloom; But as it passed away there followed after A sigh of pain, and sounds of elvish laughter. in And so his parents deemed him to be blest Beyond the lot of mortals; they were poor As the most timid bird that stored its nest With the stray gleanings at their cottage-door: Yet they contrived to rear their little dove, And he repaid them with the tenderest love. IV The child was very beautiful in sooth, And as he waxed in years grew lovelier still; On his jair brow the aureole of truth Be2tniM_andJ a thrill, Looked in his eyes, and from their heaven of blue Saw thoughts like sinless Angels peering through. Need there was none of censure or of praise To mould him to the kind parental hand; Yet there was ever something in his ways, Which those about him could not understand; A self-withdrawn and independent bliss, Beside the father's love, the mother's kiss. VI For oft, when he believed himself alone, They caught brief snatches of mysterious rhymes, Which he would murmur in an undertone, Like a pleased bee's in summer; and at times A strange far look would come into his eyes, As if he saw ai vision in the skies. VII And he upon a simple leaf would pore As if its very texture unto him Had some deep meaning; sometimes by the door, From noon until a summer-day grew dim, He lay and watched the clouds; and to his t...

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1425511147
• ISBN 13: 9781425511142
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 150