Amelia Tamerton Churchtower Etc Author:Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE YEW-BERRY. I Call this idle history the ' Berry of the Yew;' Because there's nothing sweeter than its husk of scarlet glue, And nothing half so bitter... more » as its black core bitteu through. I loved, saw hope, and said so; learn'd that Laura loved again; Wherefore speak of joy then suffer'd? My head throbs, and I would fain Find words to lay the spectre starting now before my brain. She loved me : all things told it ; eye to eye, and palm to palm : As the pause upon the ceasing of a thousand-voiced psalm Was the mighty satisfaction and the full eternal calm. On her face, when she was laughing, was the seriousness within; Her sweetest smiles, (and sweeter did a lover never win,) In passing, grew so absent that they made her fair cheek thin. On her face, when she was speaking, thoughts unworded used to live; So that when she whisper'd to me, ' Better joy Earth cannot give/ Her following silence added, 'But Earth's joy is fugitive.' For there a nameless something, though suppress'd, still spread around; The same was on her eyelids, if she lookM towards the ground ; In her laughing, singing, talking, still the same was in the sound ;— A sweet dissatisfaction, which at no time went away, But shadow'd so her spirit, even at its brightest play, That her mirth was like the sunshine in the closing of the day. Let none ask joy the highest, save those who would have it end: There's weight in earthly blessings; they are earth)-, and they tend, By predetermin'd impulse, at their highest, to descend. I still for a happy season, in the present, saw the past, Mistaking one for the other, feeling sure my hold was fast On that of which the symbols vanish'd daily: but, at last, As when we watch bright cloud-b...« less