The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... cheek The moistening prayers where the tongue was weak , And she saw through the mist of those bitter tears Only the child in his innocent years ; She remembered him pure as a child might be , The guilt of the present she could not see ...
... cheek The moistening prayers where the tongue was weak , And she saw through the mist of those bitter tears Only the child in his innocent years ; She remembered him pure as a child might be , The guilt of the present she could not see ...
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... ; With peach - blossom cheeks , and with violet eyes , And teeth and complexion like new - fallen snow ; With a nature unspoiled and unblemished by art- With a 12 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS Kate Shelly Eugene J Hall xxi.
... ; With peach - blossom cheeks , and with violet eyes , And teeth and complexion like new - fallen snow ; With a nature unspoiled and unblemished by art- With a 12 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS Kate Shelly Eugene J Hall xxi.
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... cheek that to the touch and eye Was rose - like loses kindred with the flower In tint and texture , and the lithe limb tires In its accustomed haunts , - ' tis then - ' tis then We do begin to die ! Thenceforth the soul Sits like the ...
... cheek that to the touch and eye Was rose - like loses kindred with the flower In tint and texture , and the lithe limb tires In its accustomed haunts , - ' tis then - ' tis then We do begin to die ! Thenceforth the soul Sits like the ...
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... cheek By needless jealousies ; let the last star Leave her a watcher by your couch of pain ; Wrong her by petulance , suspicion , all That makes her cup of bitterness , -yet give One evidence of love , and earth has not An emblem of ...
... cheek By needless jealousies ; let the last star Leave her a watcher by your couch of pain ; Wrong her by petulance , suspicion , all That makes her cup of bitterness , -yet give One evidence of love , and earth has not An emblem of ...
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... cheek With smoothly glancing eyes , And wished my hopes would not slip up Of making her my prize . How proudly did I walk along As one of higher birth Until I struck a patch of ice And then I left the earth- Just for one second . Had I ...
... cheek With smoothly glancing eyes , And wished my hopes would not slip up Of making her my prize . How proudly did I walk along As one of higher birth Until I struck a patch of ice And then I left the earth- Just for one second . Had I ...
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Page 216 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 131 - God! who art never out of hearing, O may he never more be warm!" The cold, cold moon above her head, Thus on her knees did Goody pray;' Young Harry heard what she had said: And icy cold he turned away.
Page 11 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true ; For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Page 24 - ... hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed-for healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God should will, within sight of its heaving billows, within sound of its manifold voices.
Page 145 - Waft— waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our...