| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 pages
...Hymn," for instance, is rhythmic, and more or less beautiful throughout. Thus it begins : — When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd And the great...star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourned — and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. O ever-returning spring ! trinity sure... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 352 pages
...its own way, the most notable elegies resulting from the war and its episodes." — EC Stedman.] WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great...drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. O powerful western fallen star ! O shades of night — O moody, tearful night ! O great star disappear'd... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 362 pages
...its own way, the most notable elegies resulting from the war and its episodes" — EC Stedman.] WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great...drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. O powerful western fallen star ! O shades of night — O moody, tearful night ! O great star disappear'd... | |
| William Clarke - Poets, American - 1892 - 162 pages
...of Grass, p. 46. numberless passages from that magnificent Burial Hymn of President Lincoln : " When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great...mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. " With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,... | |
| Charles Frederick Holder - California - 1893 - 856 pages
...begin. However, as in this instance it is unavoidable, let us read the opening four divisions : When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great...Ever-returning Spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac h'ooining perennial and drooping star in the West, And thought of him I love. O powerful western fallen... | |
| Charles Frederick Holder - California - 1893 - 886 pages
...instance it is unavoidable, let us read, the opening four divisions : When lilacs last in the dooryartl bloom'd. And the great star early droop'd in the western...everreturning Spring. Ever-returning Spring, trinity sure to nie you bring, Lilac r-'ooming perennial and drooping star in the West, And thought of him I love.... | |
| John Vance Cheney - American poetry - 1895 - 466 pages
...— on the line with Lowell's " Commemoration Ode." Let us read the opening divisions, — i. " When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great...western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn wi th ever-returning spri ng. " Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming... | |
| English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. 821 WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great...drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night — O moody, tearful night! O great star disappear'd... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 618 pages
...the door-yard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning...drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. O powerful western fallen star! O shades of night — O moody, tearful night! O great star disappeared... | |
| Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1897 - 484 pages
...songs. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D. WHEN lilacs last iu the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd...drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. O powerful western fallen star ! O shades of night — O moody, tearful night 1 O great star disappear'd... | |
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