Quiet Hour A Collection of Poems Author:Mary Wilder Tileston General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Roberts brothers Subjects: English poetry American poetry Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh N... more »otes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MY DOVES. O Weisheit I Du red' st wie eine Taube I " -- Goethe. A TY little doves have left a nest " Upon an Indian tree, Whose leaves fantastic take their rest Or motion from the sea ; For, ever there, the sea-winds go With sunlit paces to and fro. The tropic flowers looked up to it, The tropic stars looked down, And there my little doves did sit, With feathers softly brown, And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight And God them taught, at every close Of murmuring waves beyond, And green leaves round, to interpose Their choral voices fond, Interpreting that love must be The meaning of the earth and sea. Fit ministers ! of living loves Theirs hath the calmest fashion, Their living voice the likest moves To lifeless intonation, The lovely monotone of springs, And winds, and such insensate things. My little doves were ta'en away From that glad nest of theirs, Across an ocean rolling gray, And tempest-clouded airs. My little doves, -- who lately knew The sky and wave by warmth and blue ! And now, within the city prison. In mist and chillness pent, With sudden upward look they listen For sounds of past content, -- For lapse of water, swell of breeze, Or nut-fruit falling from the trees. The stir without the glow of passion, The triumph of the mart, The gold...« less