Essays for Summer HoursHilliard, Gray & Company, 1842 - 250 páginas |
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... peace , repeating to myself these words : " And I am glad that he has lived thus long , And glad that he has gone to his reward : Nor deem that kindly Nature did him wrong , Softly to disengage the vital cord . When his weak hand grew ...
... peace , repeating to myself these words : " And I am glad that he has lived thus long , And glad that he has gone to his reward : Nor deem that kindly Nature did him wrong , Softly to disengage the vital cord . When his weak hand grew ...
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... peaceful and happy than it was before . Sum- mer hath thrown open her leafy doors , leading to the voiceless woodlands , and by the per- fume of her thousand flowers , invites us forth to enjoy the luxuries of her bounty . Let us depart ...
... peaceful and happy than it was before . Sum- mer hath thrown open her leafy doors , leading to the voiceless woodlands , and by the per- fume of her thousand flowers , invites us forth to enjoy the luxuries of her bounty . Let us depart ...
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... , how happy and free from care are these little woodland in- habitants ! Would it were thus with the beautiful among men . But this can never be ; for where sin and impurity are known , peace and AFTERNOON IN THE WOODLANDS . 15.
... , how happy and free from care are these little woodland in- habitants ! Would it were thus with the beautiful among men . But this can never be ; for where sin and impurity are known , peace and AFTERNOON IN THE WOODLANDS . 15.
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Charles Lanman. for where sin and impurity are known , peace and happiness are strangers . But look ! they have spread a banquet , and are preparing to enjoy it . Their table is covered with the products of their own domain . Fruit ...
Charles Lanman. for where sin and impurity are known , peace and happiness are strangers . But look ! they have spread a banquet , and are preparing to enjoy it . Their table is covered with the products of their own domain . Fruit ...
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... peaceful thoughts of purity and love . Here , as well as everywhere , Nature will speak to us in emblems . Like man , this little rivu- let is born a wanderer ; but unlike him , the business of its life is to laugh and be happy Far up ...
... peaceful thoughts of purity and love . Here , as well as everywhere , Nature will speak to us in emblems . Like man , this little rivu- let is born a wanderer ; but unlike him , the business of its life is to laugh and be happy Far up ...
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Autumn beautiful behold beneath birds black bass bosom breath breeze brooklet canoe CHARLES LANMAN child choly clouds cottage dark dear death deep distant dreams dwell earth echo emblem eternal feelings floating flowers forest Garden of Eden gathered gaze glorious gone grave green happy hear heard heart heaven hills Holy Bible hour Indian Lake Michigan lakes land laugh listen live lonely look luxury Mary Howitt Mediterranean sea melan mighty mind minstrels Mirth and sadness morning mountains murmur Nature night noble ocean pass peace pleasant dreams pleasure poet poor rest river river Raisin Sabbath scenes shadows silent sleeping slumber smile song sorrow soul sound spirit sported Star of Bethlehem stars streams summer sweet thee thing thou thought thousand trees twilight valley village voice wander waters waves whip-poor-will wigwam wind woods yonder young
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Página 152 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Página 121 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt seaweed Clings to the marble of her palaces.
Página 20 - ... bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! \ Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid, Low i
Página 20 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth...
Página 20 - Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!
Página 200 - E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Página 32 - I would not live alway ; no — welcome the tomb, Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom; There, sweet be my rest, till he bid me arise, To hail him in triumph descending the skies.
Página 204 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
Página 166 - Hath ceased ; all, all around is quietness. Less fearful on this day, the limping hare Stops, and looks back, and stops, and looks on man, Her deadliest foe. The toil-worn horse, set free, Unheedful of the pasture, roams at large ; And, as his stiff unwieldy bulk he rolls, His iron-armed hoofs gleam in the morning ray.
Página 170 - And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint -like, Looking downward from the skies.
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Historic Mackinac: The Historical, Picturesque and Legendary ..., Volume 2 Edwin Orin Wood Visualização integral - 1918 |
Historic Mackinac: The Historical, Picturesque and Legendary ..., Volume 2 Edwin Orin Wood Visualização integral - 1918 |