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Shadows and Ideals

Francis Saltus Saltus

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LA MANOLA. A face of pink and nacker ! Tiger eyes, Fringed by long, silken lashes black as jet ! A tortoise-comb high in soft tresses set, A fan in hand of Oriental dyes, Screening delicious spheres that fall and rise Draped in a frail mantilla's gauzy net. A satin slipper on a foot that vies With Castile's Queen, and which will quickly fret When, near the Prado, sounds of castagnette Of some great revelry or dance apprise. A vague, strange look of passion you surmise, You catch a pleasant scent like mignonette ! She passes ! while from sensuous lips there flies The blue smoke of her twisted cigarette ! Madrid, 1873. EXPECTANCY. EXPECTANCY. When mellow autumn, with its gorgeous blight, Blooms grimly death-like among loosened leaves, I love, poor exile from all earth's delight, To seek sad woods on still October eves. And once, by many a moody thought o'erweighed, Wandering, without a definite path or aim, Unto the weird heart of a gloomy glade, Unknown to all my walks, I sudden came. Blurred by the mists of care, I did not see The pall of utter sorrow everywhere, That seemed to brood upon each dreamy tree And haunt the awful quiet of the air. The broken twigs cracked sharp beneath my tread; No crickets in the grass mad music made; The drowsy wood seemed desolately dead; Sepulchral sadness lingered in its shade. The leaves had long no pleasant breezes known; The birdless boughs for summer seemed to yearn; No insects hummed a noisy monotone; No timid squirrel leapt amid the fern. And as I gazed, in marveling surprise, Up through grim branches to the streaks of sky, The fleet and frightened clouds before my eyes Seemed the dark spot to shun, and hurry by. Then deeper meaning in the solemn...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shadows and Ideals. To get started finding Shadows and Ideals, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217053254

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LA MANOLA. A face of pink and nacker ! Tiger eyes, Fringed by long, silken lashes black as jet ! A tortoise-comb high in soft tresses set, A fan in hand of Oriental dyes, Screening delicious spheres that fall and rise Draped in a frail mantilla's gauzy net. A satin slipper on a foot that vies With Castile's Queen, and which will quickly fret When, near the Prado, sounds of castagnette Of some great revelry or dance apprise. A vague, strange look of passion you surmise, You catch a pleasant scent like mignonette ! She passes ! while from sensuous lips there flies The blue smoke of her twisted cigarette ! Madrid, 1873. EXPECTANCY. EXPECTANCY. When mellow autumn, with its gorgeous blight, Blooms grimly death-like among loosened leaves, I love, poor exile from all earth's delight, To seek sad woods on still October eves. And once, by many a moody thought o'erweighed, Wandering, without a definite path or aim, Unto the weird heart of a gloomy glade, Unknown to all my walks, I sudden came. Blurred by the mists of care, I did not see The pall of utter sorrow everywhere, That seemed to brood upon each dreamy tree And haunt the awful quiet of the air. The broken twigs cracked sharp beneath my tread; No crickets in the grass mad music made; The drowsy wood seemed desolately dead; Sepulchral sadness lingered in its shade. The leaves had long no pleasant breezes known; The birdless boughs for summer seemed to yearn; No insects hummed a noisy monotone; No timid squirrel leapt amid the fern. And as I gazed, in marveling surprise, Up through grim branches to the streaks of sky, The fleet and frightened clouds before my eyes Seemed the dark spot to shun, and hurry by. Then deeper meaning in the solemn...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shadows and Ideals. To get started finding Shadows and Ideals, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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