The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... never a soul among ' em came back to the English shore . There was wringin ' o ' hands and moanin ' , and when they spoke o ' the dead For many a long day after the women's eyes were red . Kate heard it as soon as any , -the fate of her ...
... never a soul among ' em came back to the English shore . There was wringin ' o ' hands and moanin ' , and when they spoke o ' the dead For many a long day after the women's eyes were red . Kate heard it as soon as any , -the fate of her ...
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... never knew- He hadn't been drowned in the tempest ; he only of all the crew Was saved by a French ship cruising , and carried ashore , and there Was nursed to life by a woman , -a French girl , young and fair . He fell in love with the ...
... never knew- He hadn't been drowned in the tempest ; he only of all the crew Was saved by a French ship cruising , and carried ashore , and there Was nursed to life by a woman , -a French girl , young and fair . He fell in love with the ...
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... never felt so kind o ' queer an ' foolish as I did when I told ' em what I'd seen ' cause I knew they didn't b'leeve in ghosts , most likely , an ' they'd think I was drunk or crazy . 66 He see it , too , " sez I , a pointin ' to Jimmy ...
... never felt so kind o ' queer an ' foolish as I did when I told ' em what I'd seen ' cause I knew they didn't b'leeve in ghosts , most likely , an ' they'd think I was drunk or crazy . 66 He see it , too , " sez I , a pointin ' to Jimmy ...
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... Never mind , younker , " assured John ; " I've been here afore , some years afore , but— ” But what will never be known , for just then the sled of its own accord started down hill , and even John him- self has not since been able to ...
... Never mind , younker , " assured John ; " I've been here afore , some years afore , but— ” But what will never be known , for just then the sled of its own accord started down hill , and even John him- self has not since been able to ...
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... never should , child , cf I hedn't ben so tender - heart- ed . It always was my worst fault . I hed beaux a plenty when I was your age , jest because I was so sarsy ' nd ag- gravatin ' ; but I wouldn't hev none of ' em , ' nd when I got ...
... never should , child , cf I hedn't ben so tender - heart- ed . It always was my worst fault . I hed beaux a plenty when I was your age , jest because I was so sarsy ' nd ag- gravatin ' ; but I wouldn't hev none of ' em , ' nd when I got ...
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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...