The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... fell . Oh , slipperiest slide that ever was ! " Twas a fell stroke to me ; The gentle maiden shared my fate , For also down came she . Oh , slippery day , slip off my mind ! Slide , glide from memory ! Fade , fade into oblivion And no ...
... fell . Oh , slipperiest slide that ever was ! " Twas a fell stroke to me ; The gentle maiden shared my fate , For also down came she . Oh , slippery day , slip off my mind ! Slide , glide from memory ! Fade , fade into oblivion And no ...
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... fell in love with the woman - this dare - devil , heartless Ned , And married her , thinkin ' the other had given him up for dead . He was never the man - and we'd said so - for a lovin ' Lass like Kate ; But he mightn't ha ' done what ...
... fell in love with the woman - this dare - devil , heartless Ned , And married her , thinkin ' the other had given him up for dead . He was never the man - and we'd said so - for a lovin ' Lass like Kate ; But he mightn't ha ' done what ...
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... Fell back despairing of a cooling breath , And wrought the starving cattle only death . No fruit , no flowers , no perfume on the air ; With baleful magic and relentless glare From morn till eve the hateful sunlight fell On silent ...
... Fell back despairing of a cooling breath , And wrought the starving cattle only death . No fruit , no flowers , no perfume on the air ; With baleful magic and relentless glare From morn till eve the hateful sunlight fell On silent ...
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... fell On silent fountain and exhausted well ; No streamlet plashed the dull dark pebbles o'er ; The shrunken river washed its banks no more . The beasts in dumb endurance faintly sank Beside the fountain where of old they drank , While ...
... fell On silent fountain and exhausted well ; No streamlet plashed the dull dark pebbles o'er ; The shrunken river washed its banks no more . The beasts in dumb endurance faintly sank Beside the fountain where of old they drank , While ...
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... fell and died ; The blasted crops like spectres cut the air ; The rain - god heareth not the people's prayer ; Ruin and death stalk gauntly everywhere . Last night , when you were sleeping cool and still , At Sharda's cottage underneath ...
... fell and died ; The blasted crops like spectres cut the air ; The rain - god heareth not the people's prayer ; Ruin and death stalk gauntly everywhere . Last night , when you were sleeping cool and still , At Sharda's cottage underneath ...
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Popular passages
Page 159 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...
Page 147 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 159 - He threw his blood-stained sword, in thunder, down ; And with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe...
Page 161 - Tempe's vale, her native maids, Amidst the festal sounding shades, To some unwearied minstrel dancing, While, as his flying fingers kiss'd the strings, Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round...
Page 162 - The Minstrel came once more to view The eastern ridge of Benvenue, For ere he parted, he would say Farewell to lovely Loch Achray — Where shall he find, in foreign land, So lone a lake, so sweet a strand...
Page 147 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's. isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown : The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 217 - 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 147 - 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 ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign ! HEBEK.
Page 175 - A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun, A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow : Long had I watched the glory moving on O'er the still radiance of the Lake below. Tranquil its spirit seemed, and floated slow .' Even in its very motion there was rest : While every breath of eve that chanced to blow, Wafted the traveller to the beauteous West.
Page 15 - HUSH ! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed ! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. Sleep, my babe, thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide ; All without thy care or payment, All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be ; When from heaven he descended...