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... thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre , learning , physic , must All follow this , and come to dust . Fear no more the lightning flash , Nor the all - dreaded thunder - stone ; Fear not slander , censure rash ; Thou hast finish'd ...
... thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre , learning , physic , must All follow this , and come to dust . Fear no more the lightning flash , Nor the all - dreaded thunder - stone ; Fear not slander , censure rash ; Thou hast finish'd ...
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... thee home ! " FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS : 1794—1835 . The Pilgrim Fathers . Felicia Dorothea Hemans , born in Liverpool , ranks high among English poetesses , rather for her gracefulness and the soft feminine atmosphere of home which is ...
... thee home ! " FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS : 1794—1835 . The Pilgrim Fathers . Felicia Dorothea Hemans , born in Liverpool , ranks high among English poetesses , rather for her gracefulness and the soft feminine atmosphere of home which is ...
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... thee , then , Write me as one who loves his fellow - men . " The angel wrote , and vanished . The next night It came again with a great wakening light , And showed the names whom love of God had blessed , And , lo ! Ben Adhem's name led ...
... thee , then , Write me as one who loves his fellow - men . " The angel wrote , and vanished . The next night It came again with a great wakening light , And showed the names whom love of God had blessed , And , lo ! Ben Adhem's name led ...
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... thee unlocks a warmer clime ; The eyes thou givest me Are in the heart , and heed not space or time : Not in mid June the golden - cuirassed bee Feels a more summer - like , warm ravishment In the white lily's breezy tent , His ...
... thee unlocks a warmer clime ; The eyes thou givest me Are in the heart , and heed not space or time : Not in mid June the golden - cuirassed bee Feels a more summer - like , warm ravishment In the white lily's breezy tent , His ...
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... thee ; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song , Who , from the dark old tree Beside the door , sang cheerly all day long , And I , secure in childish piety , Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven , which he ...
... thee ; The sight of thee calls back the robin's song , Who , from the dark old tree Beside the door , sang cheerly all day long , And I , secure in childish piety , Listened as if I heard an angel sing With news from heaven , which he ...
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Page 117 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 121 - I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? \ Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page 85 - ... Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 121 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters, if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honourable men : I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
Page 106 - Amen" the other: As they had seen me with these hangman's hands. Listening their fear, I could not say "Amen" When they did say "God bless us!
Page 5 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 21 - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Page 88 - Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought...
Page 14 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true...
Page 132 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his newborn blisses, A six years