The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... Heart Ventures .. Hindoo's Paradise , The ...... Home , Sweet Home ... How the Lawyers got a Patron Saint ... Heart's Charity , The ... ............................................. .. In the Harbor ...
... Heart Ventures .. Hindoo's Paradise , The ...... Home , Sweet Home ... How the Lawyers got a Patron Saint ... Heart's Charity , The ... ............................................. .. In the Harbor ...
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... heart ! ' Tis evening - the darkness is dense and profound ; Men linger at home by their bright - blazing fires ; The wind wildly howls with a horrible sound , And shrieks through the vibrating telegraphi - wires ; The fierce lightning ...
... heart ! ' Tis evening - the darkness is dense and profound ; Men linger at home by their bright - blazing fires ; The wind wildly howls with a horrible sound , And shrieks through the vibrating telegraphi - wires ; The fierce lightning ...
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... heart , That , bleeding amid things it loved so well , Would have some sign of sadness as they pass . She stood at Abraham's tent . Her lips were pressed Till the blood started ; and the wandering veins Of her transparent forehead were ...
... heart , That , bleeding amid things it loved so well , Would have some sign of sadness as they pass . She stood at Abraham's tent . Her lips were pressed Till the blood started ; and the wandering veins Of her transparent forehead were ...
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... heart fold him , — Be the spirit of his song ? " Touch not , sea , the blessed letters I have traced upon thy shore ... heart ! and surely Peace shall also be thine own , For the heart that trusteth purely Never long can pine alone ...
... heart fold him , — Be the spirit of his song ? " Touch not , sea , the blessed letters I have traced upon thy shore ... heart ! and surely Peace shall also be thine own , For the heart that trusteth purely Never long can pine alone ...
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... heart swelled high with pride . " Ah ! " thought he , " how great a master am I ! When the organ plays , How the vast cathedral arches will re - echo with my praise ! " Up the aisle the gay procession moved . The altar shone afar , With ...
... heart swelled high with pride . " Ah ! " thought he , " how great a master am I ! When the organ plays , How the vast cathedral arches will re - echo with my praise ! " Up the aisle the gay procession moved . The altar shone afar , With ...
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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...