The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... Heaven ?. Wife's Appeal , The . Whims ........ Year's Twelve Children , The . Year's Wooing , A .............. ...... A . V. Bower . xxiv . ... H . H. Ballard . xxiii . 203 xxiv . 53 Grace Greenwood . xxiv . 115 148 ........... xxiv ...
... Heaven ?. Wife's Appeal , The . Whims ........ Year's Twelve Children , The . Year's Wooing , A .............. ...... A . V. Bower . xxiv . ... H . H. Ballard . xxiii . 203 xxiv . 53 Grace Greenwood . xxiv . 115 148 ........... xxiv ...
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... heaven , Which made its language legible , shot back , From her long lashes , as it had been flame . Her noble boy stood by her , with his hand Clasped in her own , and his round , delicate feet , Scarce trained to balance on the tented ...
... heaven , Which made its language legible , shot back , From her long lashes , as it had been flame . Her noble boy stood by her , with his hand Clasped in her own , and his round , delicate feet , Scarce trained to balance on the tented ...
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... Heaven Her pride o'ermastereth not . She went her way with a strong step and slow , Her pressed lip arched , and her clear eye undimmed , As if it were a diamond , and her form Borne proudly up , as if her heart breathed through . Her ...
... Heaven Her pride o'ermastereth not . She went her way with a strong step and slow , Her pressed lip arched , and her clear eye undimmed , As if it were a diamond , and her form Borne proudly up , as if her heart breathed through . Her ...
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... heaven lay mirrored in her eyes In this triumphant progress to the skies . Upon the brow a narrow grave was made , Where all day long a tamarisk's shadow laid , And gold - eyed daisies , exquisite to see , Sprang round this maiden grave ...
... heaven lay mirrored in her eyes In this triumphant progress to the skies . Upon the brow a narrow grave was made , Where all day long a tamarisk's shadow laid , And gold - eyed daisies , exquisite to see , Sprang round this maiden grave ...
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... heaven through the soft gloom seemed to stray . He was young , the Organ - builder , and o'er all the land his fame Ran with fleet and eager footsteps , like a swiftly rushing flame . All the maidens heard the story ; all the maidens ...
... heaven through the soft gloom seemed to stray . He was young , the Organ - builder , and o'er all the land his fame Ran with fleet and eager footsteps , like a swiftly rushing flame . All the maidens heard the story ; all the maidens ...
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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...