The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... close , The ending of the strife , -death's final triumph . We do begin to die when the keen ray Of the quick eye grows dim , and its full orb Flattens and shrinks ; when through the auburn braid Ruaneth a streak of white , and its soft ...
... close , The ending of the strife , -death's final triumph . We do begin to die when the keen ray Of the quick eye grows dim , and its full orb Flattens and shrinks ; when through the auburn braid Ruaneth a streak of white , and its soft ...
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... the boy Hung down his head , and opened his parched lips For water ; but she could not give it him . She laid him down beneath the sultry sky , — For it was better than the close , hot breath 20 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS.
... the boy Hung down his head , and opened his parched lips For water ; but she could not give it him . She laid him down beneath the sultry sky , — For it was better than the close , hot breath 20 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS.
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... close , hot breath Of the thick pines , -and tried to comfort him ; But he was sore athirst , and his blue eyes Were dim and blood - shot , and he could not know Why God denied him water in the wild . She sat a little longer , and he ...
... close , hot breath Of the thick pines , -and tried to comfort him ; But he was sore athirst , and his blue eyes Were dim and blood - shot , and he could not know Why God denied him water in the wild . She sat a little longer , and he ...
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... close . Give thanks , give thanks ! She is safe with those Who hail her with cheer on cheer ! --St . Nicholas . THOU CANST NOT FORGET . The following poem was written by a young lady in Virginia and was addressed to her lover whose ...
... close . Give thanks , give thanks ! She is safe with those Who hail her with cheer on cheer ! --St . Nicholas . THOU CANST NOT FORGET . The following poem was written by a young lady in Virginia and was addressed to her lover whose ...
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... close resem- blance to money ! The disappointment of every one was intense . The conductor intimated that if he met me in society he would give me my money's worth , the fat man muttered some- thing about my being an " imposture ...
... close resem- blance to money ! The disappointment of every one was intense . The conductor intimated that if he met me in society he would give me my money's worth , the fat man muttered some- thing about my being an " imposture ...
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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...