The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... stood ; She was bowed and haggard and old , He was young and defiant and bold , — Mother and son ; and to gaze at the pair , Their different attitudes , look and air , One would believe , ere the truth were known . The mother convicted ...
... stood ; She was bowed and haggard and old , He was young and defiant and bold , — Mother and son ; and to gaze at the pair , Their different attitudes , look and air , One would believe , ere the truth were known . The mother convicted ...
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... stood by a grave newly made , With a hand on his chia , and a hand on his spade ; I knew by the gleam of his eloquent eye His heart was instructing his lips to reply . " Who is to judge when the soul takes its flight ? Who is to judge ...
... stood by a grave newly made , With a hand on his chia , and a hand on his spade ; I knew by the gleam of his eloquent eye His heart was instructing his lips to reply . " Who is to judge when the soul takes its flight ? Who is to judge ...
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... stood at Abraham's tent . Her lips were pressed Till the blood started ; and the wandering veins Of her transparent forehead were swelled out , As if her pride would barst them . Her dark eye Was clear and tearless , and the light of ...
... stood at Abraham's tent . Her lips were pressed Till the blood started ; and the wandering veins Of her transparent forehead were swelled out , As if her pride would barst them . Her dark eye Was clear and tearless , and the light of ...
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... stood beside the well her God had given To gush in that deep wilderness , and bathed The forehead of her child until he laughed In his reviving happiness , and lisped His infant thought of gladness at the sight Of the cool plashing of ...
... stood beside the well her God had given To gush in that deep wilderness , and bathed The forehead of her child until he laughed In his reviving happiness , and lisped His infant thought of gladness at the sight Of the cool plashing of ...
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... stood erect , strong , confi- dent in the years stretching peacefully out before him . The next he lay wounded , bleeding , helpless , doomed to weary weeks of torture , to silence and the grave . Great in life , he was surpassingly ...
... stood erect , strong , confi- dent in the years stretching peacefully out before him . The next he lay wounded , bleeding , helpless , doomed to weary weeks of torture , to silence and the grave . Great in life , he was surpassingly ...
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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...