Scrap-book Recitation Series: A Miscellaneous Collection of Prose and Poetry for Recitation and Reading, Designed for Schools, Home and Literary Circles. no. 1-4T.S. Denison, 1880 |
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... land ! PAPA'S LETTER . 1 was sitting in my study , Writing letters , when I heard , ' Please , dear mamma , Mary told me Mamma mustn't be ' isturbed ; " But I's tired of the kitty , Want some ozzer fing to do ! Witing letters , is ' ou ...
... land ! PAPA'S LETTER . 1 was sitting in my study , Writing letters , when I heard , ' Please , dear mamma , Mary told me Mamma mustn't be ' isturbed ; " But I's tired of the kitty , Want some ozzer fing to do ! Witing letters , is ' ou ...
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... land of the leal they have gone with their song , Where the choir and the chorus together belong . Oh ! be lifted , ye gates ! Let me hear them again , Blessed song ! Blessed singers ! forever , Amen ! AT THE PARTY . BY ELIZABETH STUART ...
... land of the leal they have gone with their song , Where the choir and the chorus together belong . Oh ! be lifted , ye gates ! Let me hear them again , Blessed song ! Blessed singers ! forever , Amen ! AT THE PARTY . BY ELIZABETH STUART ...
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... land his faine Ran with fleet and eager footsteps , like a swiftly rushing flame . All the maidens heard the story ; all the maidens blushed and smiled , By his youth and wondrous beauty and his great renown beguiled . So he sought and ...
... land his faine Ran with fleet and eager footsteps , like a swiftly rushing flame . All the maidens heard the story ; all the maidens blushed and smiled , By his youth and wondrous beauty and his great renown beguiled . So he sought and ...
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... the right . Freedom conquered them , and free- dom will cultivate their fields , educate their children , weave for them the robes of wealth , execute their laws , and fill their land 46 LIFE . with happy homes . The soldiers of.
... the right . Freedom conquered them , and free- dom will cultivate their fields , educate their children , weave for them the robes of wealth , execute their laws , and fill their land 46 LIFE . with happy homes . The soldiers of.
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... land as insecure as snow upon volcanoes ' lips . And now all honor to the volunteers - to those who sleep in unknown , sunken graves , whose names are only in the hearts of those they loved and left - of those who only hear in happy ...
... land as insecure as snow upon volcanoes ' lips . And now all honor to the volunteers - to those who sleep in unknown , sunken graves , whose names are only in the hearts of those they loved and left - of those who only hear in happy ...
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Page 96 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 95 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, —...
Page 69 - WITH deep affection And recollection I often think of Those Shandon bells, Whose sounds so wild would, In the days of childhood, Fling round my cradle Their magic spells. On this I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee, — With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.
Page 96 - That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn 1 From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn...
Page 30 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us: that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Page 30 - But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our power to add or to detract.
Page 62 - How like a mounting devil in the heart Rules the unreined ambition ! Let it once But play the monarch, and its haughty brow Glows with a beauty that bewilders thought And unthrones peace forever. Putting on The very pomp of Lucifer, it turns The heart to ashes, and with not a spring Left in the bosom for the spirit's lip, We look upon our splendor and forget The thirst of which we perish.
Page 41 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 59 - Parrhasius stood, gazing forgetfully Upon his canvas. There Prometheus lay, Chained to the cold rocks of Mount Caucasus— The vulture at his vitals, and the links Of the lame Lemnian festering in his flesh; And, as the painter's mind felt through the dim, Rapt mystery, and plucked the shadows forth With its...
Page 39 - Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few, Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew. That ever upon the topmost roof our banner in India blew. VI. Men will forget what we suffer and not what we do. We can fight! But to be soldier all...