Our life illustrated by pen and pencil [an anthology].1865 |
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... gleam of golden hair ? . Oh ! can that light and airy breath Steal from a being doomed to death ; Those features to the grave be sent , In sleep thus mutely eloquent ? Or , art thou , what thy form would seem. To a Sleeping Infant.
... gleam of golden hair ? . Oh ! can that light and airy breath Steal from a being doomed to death ; Those features to the grave be sent , In sleep thus mutely eloquent ? Or , art thou , what thy form would seem. To a Sleeping Infant.
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... light of dreaming - soul appears To play from thoughts above thy years , Thou smil'st as if thy soul were soaring To Heaven and Heaven's God adoring ! And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's sleeping eye ...
... light of dreaming - soul appears To play from thoughts above thy years , Thou smil'st as if thy soul were soaring To Heaven and Heaven's God adoring ! And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's sleeping eye ...
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Our life. TO MY SON . Light are her sallies as the tripping fawn's Forth - startled from the fern where she lay couched ; Unthought - of , unexpected as the stir Of the soft breeze ruffling the meadow flowers ; Or from before it chasing ...
Our life. TO MY SON . Light are her sallies as the tripping fawn's Forth - startled from the fern where she lay couched ; Unthought - of , unexpected as the stir Of the soft breeze ruffling the meadow flowers ; Or from before it chasing ...
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... child . " They shall all bloom in fields of light , Transplanted by my care , And saints , upon their garments white , These sacred blossoms wear . " THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS . 39 And the mother 38 CHILDHOOD . The Reaper and the Flowers.
... child . " They shall all bloom in fields of light , Transplanted by my care , And saints , upon their garments white , These sacred blossoms wear . " THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS . 39 And the mother 38 CHILDHOOD . The Reaper and the Flowers.
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... she should find them all again In the fields of light above . O , not in cruelty , not in wrath , The Reaper came that day ; ' Twas an angel visited the green earth , And took the flowers away . BUT OUR LOST DARLING . THIS is a curl of our.
... she should find them all again In the fields of light above . O , not in cruelty , not in wrath , The Reaper came that day ; ' Twas an angel visited the green earth , And took the flowers away . BUT OUR LOST DARLING . THIS is a curl of our.
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Page 35 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 142 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Page 140 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 163 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 38 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.
Page 38 - I have nought that is fair?" saith he; "Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again." He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves.
Page 137 - Make me a fire, Close by whose living coal I sit, And glow like it. Lord, I confess too, when I dine, The pulse is thine, And all those other bits that be There placed by thee; The worts, the purslain, and the mess Of...
Page 199 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page xiv - At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 41 - They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain : O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.