The birthday book of flower and songGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1877 - 128 pages |
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... Life's chequered road . Though birthday anniversaries bring pain as well as pleasure in their train - recalling memories of those who are no longer here , and have ceased to measure time by earthly computation - still they are our ...
... Life's chequered road . Though birthday anniversaries bring pain as well as pleasure in their train - recalling memories of those who are no longer here , and have ceased to measure time by earthly computation - still they are our ...
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... life Poised on her even finger . January 5th . TENDER - HEARTED , stroke a nettle , And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle , And it soft as silk remains . COME not , when I am dead , To drop thy foolish tears ...
... life Poised on her even finger . January 5th . TENDER - HEARTED , stroke a nettle , And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle , And it soft as silk remains . COME not , when I am dead , To drop thy foolish tears ...
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... life We sometimes do short hours , aye - minutes strike , Keen , blissful , bright , never to be forgotten , Which , through the dreary gloom of Time o'erpast , Shine like fair sunny spots on a wild coast . Byren . Joanna Baillie ...
... life We sometimes do short hours , aye - minutes strike , Keen , blissful , bright , never to be forgotten , Which , through the dreary gloom of Time o'erpast , Shine like fair sunny spots on a wild coast . Byren . Joanna Baillie ...
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... life's crushing load , Whose forms are bending low , Who toil along the dusty way , With painful steps and slow , - Look now ! for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on their wing ; Oh ! rest beside the weary road , And hear the angels ...
... life's crushing load , Whose forms are bending low , Who toil along the dusty way , With painful steps and slow , - Look now ! for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on their wing ; Oh ! rest beside the weary road , And hear the angels ...
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... Life may be followed by a fame that rings . With nobler music than the battle sings . Wordsworth . Gerald Massey . January 25th . THIS world is all too sad for tears , I would not weep , not I , But smile along my life's short road ...
... Life may be followed by a fame that rings . With nobler music than the battle sings . Wordsworth . Gerald Massey . January 25th . THIS world is all too sad for tears , I would not weep , not I , But smile along my life's short road ...
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Adelaide Alfred Austin angels April August beauty bless blest breathe bright Bryan Charles Waller Christina Rossetti dark dear December doth dream E. B. Browning E. H. Plumptre earth Edmund Spenser Edmund Waller eyes face fair faith fear February flowers George Eliot George Mac Donald Gerald Massey glorious golden grace Hamilton King hand happy hath heart Heaven hope January Jean Ingelow Joanna Baillie John Moultrie July June land life's light live Longfellow look Lowell maiden March never night noble November o'er October Philip James Bailey Procter Robert Browning Robert Buchanan rose Selkirk September Shakespeare Sheridan Knowles shine sigh sing smile soft song sorrow soul spirit Spring star sweet Sydney Dobell tears Tennyson thee Theodore Martin thine things thou thought toil true truth voice W. M. W. Call weary Whittier William Allingham William Morris wind words Wordsworth youth
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Page 98 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 116 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 106 - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Page 51 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 79 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 19 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 120 - BID me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free, As in the whole world thou can'st find, That heart I'll give to thee. Bid that heart stay, and it will stay, To honour thy decree; Or bid it languish quite away, And 't shall do so for thee.
Page 49 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 24 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own; Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes, Then will pure light around thy path be shed, And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone.
Page 116 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.