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 edition. Excerpt: ...like a star in ether high, His one full strain at toptiiost height Breathes toward heaven in pure delight. Then downward wavering blithe and free, His dew-wet pinions soon we see; That lowly nest through all his flight Remembered still, though lost to sight. TRIBUTE. 5fjfiO, on some mount's untrodden top "fr ...
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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. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...like a star in ether high, His one full strain at toptiiost height Breathes toward heaven in pure delight. Then downward wavering blithe and free, His dew-wet pinions soon we see; That lowly nest through all his flight Remembered still, though lost to sight. TRIBUTE. 5fjfiO, on some mount's untrodden top "fr Like eyes of the earth, God given, Clear, twin lakes lie in solitude; Look only up to heaven! And there are women, holy, pure, With souls divinely drawn; Their charms self-guarded, their delights Shared with the Christ alone. THE NIGHTINGALE. OT ceased are miracles so long As nightingales breathe forth their song; The whole scale from one little bill, Note following note, evolved at will! W ell may the soul with rapture soar To hear such music at our door; And if this strain to earth is given, O, what shall greet the ear in Heaven? GOOD COMPANY. HE petal of a lotus bears One humble drop of dew, And yet that drop the glory shares Of the great flower we view. In some pure soul an ally find, And you 'll exalted be; The splendors of his heart and mind Will lend their light to thee! MOOSILAUKE. HEN all the vales below are green, Thy summit, white with snow, is seen, And billow' clouds, like ocean's foam, Round thy dominion love to roam. Upon thy crest the shadows play, There lies the morning's warmest ray; And oft the rainbow's brightest hue Above thy lofty head we view; While sunset's flush in happy June, And the young crescent of the moon Crowns with delight thy hoary brow, And poets praise, as I do, now. I've seen Monadnock, grand with age, Mount Washington, where tempests rage, And Whiteface, smiling in the sun; Old Sunapee, when day was done; I've stood upon the famed Kearsarge And many a mount as fair and large; But if my soul was e'er...
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Good + No Jacket. Book Inner hinge cracking just before preface, causing the front end papers to be loose at the upper end; normal aging, including some scuffs, light soils and minor edge wear. Bevelled edges. Top edge gilt. 374 pages.
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Very Good. No Dustjacket as issued. The special poems of a lifetime are presented in this volume. These garnered thoughts are sent forth in book form with the sincere wish that, while helping the many to while away a leisure hour, some of them may strengthen the reader for the battle of life, give more generous impulses to those who have been careless or selfish, and lead a few, at least, to a higher place of Christian living. 374 pages, photos, portrait front; green cloth covers stamped in black & gold. "Mr. Griffith's poetic genius began to develop when he was ten years old, at which time his first poem was printed. He has written frequently both in prose and verse, and many of his pieces have been illustrated, and some set to music. Many of his productions have been given to the world through the columns of the Youth's Companion, St. Nicholas, Christian Work, New York Independent, New York Observer, and other well-known periodicals; and several may be found in Poems of Places, edited by Longfellow, in Drake's Legends of New England, in The Scholar's Speaker, Poets of America, Wayside Flowers, and other standard collections of verse. His reputation thus extends far beyond the limits of the New England States. An extended biographical sketch of Mr. Griffith, with a portrait, appeared a few years since in the Boston Home Guest, and more recently in the Magazine of Poetry, Buffalo, N.Y., and in two anthologies published in Chicago. The leading elocutionists of America are using Mr. Griffith's poems in their readings; and his Swiss Good Night, which is extremely popular, has been translated into several languages. Mr. Griffith has been engaged for years in editing a large work on the poets of Massachusetts, and contemplates publishing a volume of his own miscellaneous poems at an early day, to be followed by a collection of his local poems in New Hampshire. In 1888 he finished the compilation of The Poets of Maine, which was issued in Portland; and the work has secured for its compiler the unanimous praise of its readers as a most excellent judge of the best efforts of Maine's poetical writers".