The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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Page 56
... lamp Was used to catch a pallor from the dawn . Yet I must needs a little linger here . Each shrub and tree is eloquent of him , For tongueless things and silence have their speech . This is the path familiar to his foot From infancy to ...
... lamp Was used to catch a pallor from the dawn . Yet I must needs a little linger here . Each shrub and tree is eloquent of him , For tongueless things and silence have their speech . This is the path familiar to his foot From infancy to ...
Page 58
... lamp Sparkles . How often in still summer dusks He paused to note that transient phantom spark Flash on the air — a light that outlasts him ! The night grows chill , as if it felt a breath Blown from that frozen city where he lies . All ...
... lamp Sparkles . How often in still summer dusks He paused to note that transient phantom spark Flash on the air — a light that outlasts him ! The night grows chill , as if it felt a breath Blown from that frozen city where he lies . All ...
Page 70
... lamp , which the slightest blast of air extinguishes . In order to realize the poetry which clings to morning roses , one needs to have just escaped from the claws of that vulture which we call illness . The foundation and the ...
... lamp , which the slightest blast of air extinguishes . In order to realize the poetry which clings to morning roses , one needs to have just escaped from the claws of that vulture which we call illness . The foundation and the ...
Page 86
... LAMP DID you ever hear the story of the old Street Lamp ? It is not very remarkable , but it may be listened to for once in a way . It was a very honest old Lamp , that had done its work for many , many years , but which was now to be ...
... LAMP DID you ever hear the story of the old Street Lamp ? It is not very remarkable , but it may be listened to for once in a way . It was a very honest old Lamp , that had done its work for many , many years , but which was now to be ...
Page 87
... Lamp , troubled it terribly . Whatever might happen , this much was certain , that it would be separated from the watchman and his wife , whom it had got to look upon as quite belonging to its family . When the Lamp had been hung up for ...
... Lamp , troubled it terribly . Whatever might happen , this much was certain , that it would be separated from the watchman and his wife , whom it had got to look upon as quite belonging to its family . When the Lamp had been hung up for ...
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