John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Margaret Witter Fuller. |
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| I am immortal! I know it! I feel it! Hope floods my heart with delight! Running on air, mad with life, dizzy, reeling, Upward I mount—faith is sight, life is feeling, Hope is the day-star of might! |
| Dryad Song. Stanza 1. |
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| It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal. 1 |
| Dryad Song. Stanza 2. |
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| Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me! Fear, hope, and longing, at strife, Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever, Gathering strength, gaining breath,—naught can sever Me from the Spirit of Life! |
| Dryad Song. Stanza 4. |
| Mary Frances Butts. |
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| “O star on the breast of the river! O marvel of bloom and grace! Did you fall right down from heaven, Out of the sweetest place? You are white as the thoughts of an angel, Your heart is steeped in the sun; Did you grow in the Golden City, My pure and radiant one?” “Nay, nay, I fell not out of heaven; None gave me my saintly white; It slowly grew from the darkness, Down in the dreary night. From the ooze of the silent river, I win my glory and grace, White souls fall not, O my poet, They rise to the sweetest place.” |
| The Water Lily. |
| Note 1. See Marlowe, page 40. Make me immortal with a kiss. [back] |