Porch Talk: A Neighbor's Take on In Memoriam Illustrated
Sunny day porch conversations are quintessentially Southern, and an unexpectedly powerful one occurred on my very own front porch the...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XL
Could we forget the widow'd hour And look on Spirits breathed away, As on a maiden in the day When first she wears her...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXXIX
Old warder of these buried bones, And answering now my random stroke With fruitful cloud and living smoke, Dark yew, that graspest...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXXVIII
With weary steps I loiter on, Tho' always under alter'd skies The purple from the distance dies, My prospect and horizon gone. No...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXXVI
Tho' truths in manhood darkly join, Deep-seated in our mystic frame, We yield all blessing to the name Of Him that made them...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXXV
Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the narrow house, "The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies: nor is...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXXIV
My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXXIII
O thou that after toil and storm Mayst seem to have reach'd a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXXII
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, Nor other thought her mind admits But, he was dead, and there he sits, And he that brought him...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXXI
When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, And home to Mary's house return'd, Was this demanded—if he yearn'd To hear her weeping by his...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXIX
With such compelling cause to grieve As daily vexes household peace, And chains regret to his decease, How dare we keep our...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXVIII
The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXVII
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy...
sammack1126
- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXVI
Still onward winds the dreary way; I with it; for I long to prove No lapse of moons can canker Love, Whatever fickle tongues may say....
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXV
I know that this was Life,—the track Whereon with equal feet we fared; And then, as now, the day prepared The daily burden for the...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXIII
Now, sometimes in my sorrow shut, Or breaking into song by fits, Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak'd from head to...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXII
The path by which we twain did go, Which led by tracts that pleased us well, Thro' four sweet years arose and fell, From flower to...
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- Oct 8, 2019
Canto XXI
I sing to him that rests below, And, since the grasses round me wave, I take the grasses of the grave, And make them pipes whereon...
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- Sep 28, 2019
Canto XX
The lesser griefs that may be said, That breathe a thousand tender vows, Are but as servants in a house Where lies the master newly...
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- Sep 28, 2019
Canto XIX
The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the...
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