Good Selections, in Prose and Poetry, for Use in Schools and Academies, Home and Church Sociables ...The author, 1885 - 159 pages |
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... gladness bounds . Then honored be the Charcoalman , Though dusky as an African ! ' T is not for you that chance to be A little better clad than he His honest manhood to despise- Although from morn till eve Good Selections . 9.
... gladness bounds . Then honored be the Charcoalman , Though dusky as an African ! ' T is not for you that chance to be A little better clad than he His honest manhood to despise- Although from morn till eve Good Selections . 9.
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... better , and merits more , Who drives the wolf from the poor man's door . THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON . CHOATE . THE birthday of the " Father of his Country ! " May it ever be freshly remembered by American hearts ! May it ever re ...
... better , and merits more , Who drives the wolf from the poor man's door . THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON . CHOATE . THE birthday of the " Father of his Country ! " May it ever be freshly remembered by American hearts ! May it ever re ...
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... better , The guard was ordered out , In front of Varnum's quarters , Before the star redoubt . " I thought I heard them call me ( It was my turn to go , ) So I snatched a hat and musket , And hobbled through the snow ; 16 Along the grim ...
... better , The guard was ordered out , In front of Varnum's quarters , Before the star redoubt . " I thought I heard them call me ( It was my turn to go , ) So I snatched a hat and musket , And hobbled through the snow ; 16 Along the grim ...
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... better . Somehow he gets thoughtful , sitting by himself so much , and thinks the strangest things you ever heard . He told me , coming home , that he hoped the people saw him in the church , because he was a cripple , and it might be ...
... better . Somehow he gets thoughtful , sitting by himself so much , and thinks the strangest things you ever heard . He told me , coming home , that he hoped the people saw him in the church , because he was a cripple , and it might be ...
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... better than you do , poor fellow ! " 66 46 My dear , " was Bob's mild answer , " Christmas day . " I'll drink his health for your sake and the day's , ' said Mrs. Cratchit , " not for his . Long life to him ! A meriy Christmas and a ...
... better than you do , poor fellow ! " 66 46 My dear , " was Bob's mild answer , " Christmas day . " I'll drink his health for your sake and the day's , ' said Mrs. Cratchit , " not for his . Long life to him ! A meriy Christmas and a ...
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Page 126 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore : Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore ! " Quoth the Raven,
Page 97 - For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells!
Page 129 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend ! " I shrieked, upstarting. " Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! — quit the bust above my door ! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the Raven,
Page 95 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future! - how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Page 27 - If the British march By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Page 126 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Page 66 - And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 111 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 26 - Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea...
Page 67 - Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, over the face of the leader came ; the nobler nature within him stirred to life at that woman's deed and word. "Who touches a hair of yon gray head dies like a dog ! March on !