The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... fell . Oh , slipperiest slide that ever was ! " Twas a fell stroke to me ; The gentle maiden shared my fate , For also down came she . Oh , slippery day , slip off my mind ! Slide , glide from memory ! Fade , fade into oblivion And no ...
... fell . Oh , slipperiest slide that ever was ! " Twas a fell stroke to me ; The gentle maiden shared my fate , For also down came she . Oh , slippery day , slip off my mind ! Slide , glide from memory ! Fade , fade into oblivion And no ...
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... fell in love with the woman - this dare - devil , heartless Ned , And married her , thinkin ' the other had given him up for dead . He was never the man - and we'd said so -- for a lovin ' lass like Kate ; But he mightn't ha ' done what ...
... fell in love with the woman - this dare - devil , heartless Ned , And married her , thinkin ' the other had given him up for dead . He was never the man - and we'd said so -- for a lovin ' lass like Kate ; But he mightn't ha ' done what ...
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... Fell back despairing of a cooling breath , And wrought the starving cattle only death . No fruit , no flowers , no perfume on the air ; With baleful magic and relentless glare From morn till eve the hateful sunlight fell On silent ...
... Fell back despairing of a cooling breath , And wrought the starving cattle only death . No fruit , no flowers , no perfume on the air ; With baleful magic and relentless glare From morn till eve the hateful sunlight fell On silent ...
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... fell On silent fountain and exhausted well ; No streamlet plashed the dull dark pebbles o'er ; The shrunken river washed its banks no more . The beasts in dumb endurance faintly sank Beside the fountain where of old they drank , While ...
... fell On silent fountain and exhausted well ; No streamlet plashed the dull dark pebbles o'er ; The shrunken river washed its banks no more . The beasts in dumb endurance faintly sank Beside the fountain where of old they drank , While ...
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... fell and died ; The blasted crops like spectres cut the air ; The rain - god heareth not the people's prayer ; Ruin and death stalk gauntly everywhere . Last night , when you were sleeping cool and still , At Sharda's cottage underneath ...
... fell and died ; The blasted crops like spectres cut the air ; The rain - god heareth not the people's prayer ; Ruin and death stalk gauntly everywhere . Last night , when you were sleeping cool and still , At Sharda's cottage underneath ...
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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...