The Two Brothers: And Other PoemsR. Carter and brothers, 1871 - 324 pages |
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... hills , Lowering o'er the rocks and caverns and the laughter of the rills : Yet I've thought at times , my brother , from the sunshine of thy life , Passing rainbow gleams have fallen on my spirit - world of strife : For when every ...
... hills , Lowering o'er the rocks and caverns and the laughter of the rills : Yet I've thought at times , my brother , from the sunshine of thy life , Passing rainbow gleams have fallen on my spirit - world of strife : For when every ...
Page 29
... : In the distance , like the earliest flush of morning o'er the hills , Even here , through cloud and gloom , a dewy mellow light distils . Still it grows upon my sight intensely beautiful and grand THE TWO BROTHERS . 29.
... : In the distance , like the earliest flush of morning o'er the hills , Even here , through cloud and gloom , a dewy mellow light distils . Still it grows upon my sight intensely beautiful and grand THE TWO BROTHERS . 29.
Page 67
... hills Espousals meet for Samson's parents ! years Of brief tranquillity , and many tears 1 " The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord ; and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years ...
... hills Espousals meet for Samson's parents ! years Of brief tranquillity , and many tears 1 " The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord ; and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years ...
Page 80
... hill and plain ; The fields were white with flocks ; and , loved of God , Again our land with milk and honey flow'd ; Age in his presence bow'd , and virgins young With tabrets and with dance his triumphs sung , And parents taught their ...
... hill and plain ; The fields were white with flocks ; and , loved of God , Again our land with milk and honey flow'd ; Age in his presence bow'd , and virgins young With tabrets and with dance his triumphs sung , And parents taught their ...
Page 107
... hills are dismay'd , The depths of the mountains are stirr❜d . Say , who can stand in His anger's path When his fury descends like fire ? Say , who can abide the heat of His wrath , For the rocks are rent by His ire ? The Lord is good ...
... hills are dismay'd , The depths of the mountains are stirr❜d . Say , who can stand in His anger's path When his fury descends like fire ? Say , who can abide the heat of His wrath , For the rocks are rent by His ire ? The Lord is good ...
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Page 274 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 314 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
Page 249 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 313 - His ego nee metas rerum nee tempora pono ; imperium sine fine dedi.
Page 259 - And now why tarriest thou ? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Page 276 - Oh, let the words -*- Linger on the trembling chords ; Let the " little while " between In their golden light be seen ; Let us think how heaven and home Lie beyond that
Page 247 - Our years are like the shadows On sunny hills that lie, Or grasses in the meadows That blossom but to die ; A sleep, a dream, a story By strangers quickly told, An unremaining glory Of things that soon are old.
Page 67 - And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord...
Page 91 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, " I am, and there is none beside me:" how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Page 106 - The LORD is slow to anger. and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked : the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.