The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... passed ! In an instant new life seems to come to her form ; She springs to her feet and forgets her despair . On , on to Moingona ! She faces the storm , She reaches the station - the keeper is there . " Save the lightning - express ...
... passed ! In an instant new life seems to come to her form ; She springs to her feet and forgets her despair . On , on to Moingona ! She faces the storm , She reaches the station - the keeper is there . " Save the lightning - express ...
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... passing fair and beautiful , he breathes Its freshness as if it were a pestilence . He gave to her the water and the ... passed , and Asia's sun rode up In the clear heaven , and every beam was heat . The cattle of the hills were in the ...
... passing fair and beautiful , he breathes Its freshness as if it were a pestilence . He gave to her the water and the ... passed , and Asia's sun rode up In the clear heaven , and every beam was heat . The cattle of the hills were in the ...
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... passed ; that trouble lay behind him and not before him ; that he was soon to meet the wife whom he loved , now recover- ing from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at times almost unnerved him ; that he was going to his ...
... passed ; that trouble lay behind him and not before him ; that he was soon to meet the wife whom he loved , now recover- ing from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at times almost unnerved him ; that he was going to his ...
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... passed away , As she died with her arms around him , her lips on the lips o ' the dead- Believin ' the face she looked on was the face o ' the man she'd wed . But the man she'd wed was a villain , and that she never knew- He hadn't been ...
... passed away , As she died with her arms around him , her lips on the lips o ' the dead- Believin ' the face she looked on was the face o ' the man she'd wed . But the man she'd wed was a villain , and that she never knew- He hadn't been ...
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... passed on days , bright mornings paled to night , Ere the long - watched - for vizier came in sight . The drought grew worse , the stricken people lay In dead , unburied heaps in face of day ; And Rani wandered round her stately home ...
... passed on days , bright mornings paled to night , Ere the long - watched - for vizier came in sight . The drought grew worse , the stricken people lay In dead , unburied heaps in face of day ; And Rani wandered round her stately home ...
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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...