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" I LOVE to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless play, And persuade myself that I am not old, And my locks are not yet gray... "
Melanie and Other Poems - Page 214
by Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1837 - 242 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 61

1835 - 700 pages
...pendant to this Winter Piece fro take the little poem by Willis, entided,— SATURDAY AFTERKGOS. ' I lore to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless play, And persuade myself that I am to-: oil, And my locks are not yet gray ; For it stirs the blood in an old maa*s keart, And it makes...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Xixth Century

Lyre - 1830 - 396 pages
...The echoes of my soul are mute — Where is my own blue sea .? SATURDAY AFTERNOON. »Y MP WIJ.LIS. I LOVE to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless...myself that I am not old, And my locks are not yet gray ; Tor it stirs the blood in an old mail's heart, And it makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of...
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Selections from the American Poets: With Some Introductory Remarks

1834 - 402 pages
...Him ? He, who himself was "undefiled :" With him we trust thee, beautiful child ! SATURDAY AFTERNOON. I LOVE to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless...For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, And it makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye. I have...
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Selections from the American Poets: With Some Introductory Remarks

1834 - 406 pages
...seene like this, IOf wild and eareless play, And persuade myself that I am not old, I '' And my loeks are not yet gray; For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, J • | And it makes his pulses fly, To eateh the thrill of a happy voiee, And the light of a pleasant...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 61

1835 - 572 pages
...Winter Piece from inanimate nature, take the little poem by Willis, entitled, — SATURDAY AFTERNOON. ' I love to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless...For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, And it makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye. ' I...
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Flowers of poetry, for young persons: a companion to miss Taylor's ..., Volume 1

Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...great, were your wealth, When without it we purchase both pleasure and health! XLVI. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. I LOVE to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless...For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, And it makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye. I have...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 27

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 pages
...inanimate nature, take the little poem by Willis, entitled— AMERICAN POETRY. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. " I love to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless...For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, And it makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye. " I...
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The Court Journal: Court Circular & Fashionable Gazette, Volume 7

1835 - 838 pages
...talent of our American brothers ; the first, Willis's SATURDAY AFTERNOON, alluded to above : — 1 I.OVE to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless...myself that I am not old, And my locks are not yet grey ; 1'ur it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, And it makes his pulses fly. To catch the thrill...
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The juvenaile poetical library; selected from the works of modern British ...

Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...it was worthier far of thee To know thyself, than rule the sea ! SATURDAY AFTERNOON. BY NP WILLIS. I LOVE to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless...myself that I am not old, And my locks are not yet grey ; For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, And makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill...
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The sacred cabinet of literature and art. Pr

Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 pages
...tempest, armed with wrath, Commission' d to affright us, and destroy. £>aturfcap aftmtoon. WILLIS. I LOVE to look on a scene like this, Of wild and careless...For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, And it makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye. I have...
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