Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

“ The stream that by green shoresides plashed and purled
Expands: the mountains melt to vapors rare,
And life alone circles out flat and bare.
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Yet wear we on, the deep light disallowed
That lit our youth; in years no longer young
We wander silently, and brood among
Dead graves, and tease the sunbreak and the cloud
For import: were it not better yet to fly,
To follow those that go before the throng,
Reasoning from stone to star, and easily
Exampling this existence? ”

“ Why hold ye so my heart, nor dimly let
Through your deep leaves the light of yesterday,
The faded glimmer of a sunshine set?
Is it that in your darkness, shut from strife,
The bread of tears becomes the bread of life?
Far from the roar of day, beneath your boughs
Fresh griefs beat tranquilly, and loves and vows
Grow green in your gray shadows, dearer far
Even than all lovely lights and roses are? ”

“ The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 6-7. ↑ Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard; ed. by N. Scott Momaday (1965) . The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 19. ↑ Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard; ed. by N. Scott Momaday (1965) . The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 26. ↑ Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard; ed. by N. Scott Momaday (1965) . The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. New York: Oxford University Press. p. ”