The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912, 1. köide,lk 1–456H. Holt, 1915 - 3742 pages |
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... Wings . Deeds of Kindness . The Lion and the Mouse . The Boy and the Wolf .. The Story of Augustus , who Would not Have any Soup .. The Story of Little Suck - a - Thumb Written in a Little Lady's Little Al- bum .. .Isaac Watts . Jane ...
... Wings . Deeds of Kindness . The Lion and the Mouse . The Boy and the Wolf .. The Story of Augustus , who Would not Have any Soup .. The Story of Little Suck - a - Thumb Written in a Little Lady's Little Al- bum .. .Isaac Watts . Jane ...
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... wings He furleth close ; contented so to look On mists in idleness - to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook : - He has his Winter too of pale misfeature , Or else he would forego his mortal nature . John Keats [ 1795 ...
... wings He furleth close ; contented so to look On mists in idleness - to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook : - He has his Winter too of pale misfeature , Or else he would forego his mortal nature . John Keats [ 1795 ...
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... wings . How did they all just come to be you ? God thought about me , and so I grew . But how did you come to us , you dear ? God thought about you , and so I am here . George Macdonald [ 1824-1905 ] STRANGE LANDS WHERE do you come from ...
... wings . How did they all just come to be you ? God thought about me , and so I grew . But how did you come to us , you dear ? God thought about you , and so I am here . George Macdonald [ 1824-1905 ] STRANGE LANDS WHERE do you come from ...
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... wings , You'll soon forget them ; And others , of a rarer kind Will grow upon your tender mind— If you will let them- Until you find that your exchange Of Heaven for earth expands your range E'en as a flier , And that your mother , you ...
... wings , You'll soon forget them ; And others , of a rarer kind Will grow upon your tender mind— If you will let them- Until you find that your exchange Of Heaven for earth expands your range E'en as a flier , And that your mother , you ...
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... , Open and fragrant for an hour , A flower , a transitory thing , Each petal fleeting as a wing , All a May morning blows and blows , And then for everlasting goes . I I IV Blue eyes , against the whiteness pressed Of little.
... , Open and fragrant for an hour , A flower , a transitory thing , Each petal fleeting as a wing , All a May morning blows and blows , And then for everlasting goes . I I IV Blue eyes , against the whiteness pressed Of little.
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Page 206 - 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 369 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 357 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 439 - And thinking of the days that are no more. 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 319 - THE SOLITARY REAPER. BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass ! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass ! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Page 304 - My brother John and I. And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side." " How many are you, then," said I, " If they two are in heaven ?" Quick was the little Maid's reply,
Page 79 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Page 218 - Nature that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Of Cynthia's seat, the airy region thrilling, Now was almost won To think her part was done, And that her reign had here its last fulfilling; She knew such harmony alone Could hold all Heaven and Earth in happier union.
Page 425 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Page 217 - Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.