Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 647
ys, I should like tounderstand poetry ; I do like to read it and repeatit, but I cannot always tell what it means. The Creator is the great poet. All that is beau-tiful to eye or ear or heart is His handwriting.Wherever a bud opens, a rivulet slips along itspebbly path, or a leaf-shadow dances in… … WHERE THE POOLS ARE BRIGHT AND DEEP. Dear children, some things go under the title ofpoetry which are incomprehensible to young andold, to wise and foolish alike. But the way tounderstand true poetry.—that of nature, at least,—is to love the beauty of which it is the picture andthe song. The best…
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