Gems for the Fireside: Comprising the Most Unique, Touching, Pithy, and Beautiful Literary Treasures from the Greatest Minds in the Realms of Poetry and Philosophy, Wit and Humor, Statesmanship and ReligionMcNeil & Coffee, 1883 - 912 pages |
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... born on the open sea . " 362 " " Seek me the cave of Silver . " . 363 64 She cuts and binds the grain . " 368 " We left the old folks have the highway . " 369 • " " 66 Well , why ' tant we pray ? " 46 " Notes from the lark I'll borrow ...
... born on the open sea . " 362 " " Seek me the cave of Silver . " . 363 64 She cuts and binds the grain . " 368 " We left the old folks have the highway . " 369 • " " 66 Well , why ' tant we pray ? " 46 " Notes from the lark I'll borrow ...
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... born with them , nor seemed L'er wore his crown as loftily as he Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Wears the green coronal of leaves with Around them ; -and there have been holy which Thy hand hath graced him . Nestled at his Who ...
... born with them , nor seemed L'er wore his crown as loftily as he Less aged than the hoary trees and rocks Wears the green coronal of leaves with Around them ; -and there have been holy which Thy hand hath graced him . Nestled at his Who ...
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... born Here , upon a red March morn ; But his famous fathers dead Were Arabs all , and Arab - bred , And the last of that great line Trod like one of a race divine ! Woodsy and wild and lonesome , The swift stream wound.
... born Here , upon a red March morn ; But his famous fathers dead Were Arabs all , and Arab - bred , And the last of that great line Trod like one of a race divine ! Woodsy and wild and lonesome , The swift stream wound.
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... born days . If I'd such a husband as Bill Jinkins was , I'd hold my tongue about my neighbors ' husbands . He was a dretful mean man , used to git drunk every day of his life , and he had an awful high temper , -used to swear like all ...
... born days . If I'd such a husband as Bill Jinkins was , I'd hold my tongue about my neighbors ' husbands . He was a dretful mean man , used to git drunk every day of his life , and he had an awful high temper , -used to swear like all ...
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... born at Bingen - at Bingen on the Rhine . 44 Tell my brothers and companions , when they meet and crowd around " Tell my mother that her other sons shall comfort her old age , And I was aye a truant bird , that thought his home a cage ...
... born at Bingen - at Bingen on the Rhine . 44 Tell my brothers and companions , when they meet and crowd around " Tell my mother that her other sons shall comfort her old age , And I was aye a truant bird , that thought his home a cage ...
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Page 822 - 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 464 - On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 209 - Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 263 - Thy waters washed them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 159 - Tis the wind, and nothing more.' 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 a minute stopped or stayed he; But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door; Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door, Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,...
Page 160 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 296 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 793 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page 242 - Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 366 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?