The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... Speak to me , husband , Ned ! " And the light of our lifted lanterns flashed on the face o ' the dead . It was him as had sailed away , sir , a miracle sure it seemed . We looked at the lad , and knowed him , and fancied we must ha ...
... Speak to me , husband , Ned ! " And the light of our lifted lanterns flashed on the face o ' the dead . It was him as had sailed away , sir , a miracle sure it seemed . We looked at the lad , and knowed him , and fancied we must ha ...
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... speak- A band of hussars thy capture seek . Oh , haste ! escape ! they are riding this way . Speak - speak to thy charger without delay ; They're nigh . Behold ! They come at a break - neck pace , A smile triumphant illumes each face ...
... speak- A band of hussars thy capture seek . Oh , haste ! escape ! they are riding this way . Speak - speak to thy charger without delay ; They're nigh . Behold ! They come at a break - neck pace , A smile triumphant illumes each face ...
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... Speak like a man . Is only Raui brave ? " " Then if I must , sweet girl , the rain - god's rage One sacrifice , one only , can assuage . When Chandra's ruler , of her own free will , Shall meet her death on yonder beacon - hill , Then ...
... Speak like a man . Is only Raui brave ? " " Then if I must , sweet girl , the rain - god's rage One sacrifice , one only , can assuage . When Chandra's ruler , of her own free will , Shall meet her death on yonder beacon - hill , Then ...
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... speak , But a withered rose - leaf fluttered Down upon the poet's cheek . HE WANTED IT LET ALONE . Soon after two o'clock yesterday , the sash in a fourth- story window of a business house on Main Street was raised and a man's head ...
... speak , But a withered rose - leaf fluttered Down upon the poet's cheek . HE WANTED IT LET ALONE . Soon after two o'clock yesterday , the sash in a fourth- story window of a business house on Main Street was raised and a man's head ...
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... Colonel , he could not speak or stir , But we saw his proud eye thrill As he simply glanced to the shot - scarred staff Where the old flag floated still ! " Now , I hate the tyrants who grind us 58 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS.
... Colonel , he could not speak or stir , But we saw his proud eye thrill As he simply glanced to the shot - scarred staff Where the old flag floated still ! " Now , I hate the tyrants who grind us 58 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS.
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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...