The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... Thou Canst not Forget ...... Total Annihilation ............ Treadwater Jim ......... Tilghman's Ride ......... Ticket o ' Leave ................ Trouble in the " Amen Corner " . Temperance Echo , The ..... They Went A - Fishing ... Two ...
... Thou Canst not Forget ...... Total Annihilation ............ Treadwater Jim ......... Tilghman's Ride ......... Ticket o ' Leave ................ Trouble in the " Amen Corner " . Temperance Echo , The ..... They Went A - Fishing ... Two ...
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... thou wast straying , Like an unbound gazelle , among the flowers ; Or wiling the soft hours By the rich gush of water - sources playing , Then sinking weary to thy smiling sleep , So beautiful and deep . " Oh , no ! and when I watched ...
... thou wast straying , Like an unbound gazelle , among the flowers ; Or wiling the soft hours By the rich gush of water - sources playing , Then sinking weary to thy smiling sleep , So beautiful and deep . " Oh , no ! and when I watched ...
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... THOU CANST NOT FORGET . The following poem was written by a young lady in Virginia and was addressed to her lover whose affection for her had grown cold . Thou canst not forget me , for memory will fling Her light o'er oblivion's dark ...
... THOU CANST NOT FORGET . The following poem was written by a young lady in Virginia and was addressed to her lover whose affection for her had grown cold . Thou canst not forget me , for memory will fling Her light o'er oblivion's dark ...
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... Thou canst not forget me ! The passion that dwelt In thy bosom will slumbering lie , In the memory of all thou hast murmured and felt The thought of me never can die . Thou mayst turn to another , and wish to forget , But the wish will ...
... Thou canst not forget me ! The passion that dwelt In thy bosom will slumbering lie , In the memory of all thou hast murmured and felt The thought of me never can die . Thou mayst turn to another , and wish to forget , But the wish will ...
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... thou answer to thy mistress so ? What but a painted banble to a king A crown that cannot full obedience bring ? This pearl - wrought chaplet on my head I lay , And what the tidings are I bid thee say . " " Well , princess , since thou ...
... thou answer to thy mistress so ? What but a painted banble to a king A crown that cannot full obedience bring ? This pearl - wrought chaplet on my head I lay , And what the tidings are I bid thee say . " " Well , princess , since thou ...
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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...