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... smiles , and brow of pearl , Shadowed by many a careless curl Of unconfined and flowing hair ; A seeming child in every thing , Save thoughtful brow and ripening charms , As Nature wears the smile of Spring When sinking into Summer's ...
... smiles , and brow of pearl , Shadowed by many a careless curl Of unconfined and flowing hair ; A seeming child in every thing , Save thoughtful brow and ripening charms , As Nature wears the smile of Spring When sinking into Summer's ...
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... smile lends joy a double cheer ; Where lives the saint , if such be known ? Speak softly , such an one is here ! - January 17 . O. W. Holmes . Like one who leaves the trampled street For some cathedral , cool and dim , Where he can hear ...
... smile lends joy a double cheer ; Where lives the saint , if such be known ? Speak softly , such an one is here ! - January 17 . O. W. Holmes . Like one who leaves the trampled street For some cathedral , cool and dim , Where he can hear ...
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... smile and tear ; The throbs of wounded pride to still , And make our own our Father's will . January 23 . 7. G. Whittier . We should waste no moments in weak regret , If the day were but one ; If what we remember and what we forget Went ...
... smile and tear ; The throbs of wounded pride to still , And make our own our Father's will . January 23 . 7. G. Whittier . We should waste no moments in weak regret , If the day were but one ; If what we remember and what we forget Went ...
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... her face . The mother's smile , the children's kiss , And home's serene abounding bliss ; The fruitage of a life that bore But idle summer blooms before . Bayard Taylor . January 26 . January 27 . Mary Hyde Buckingham , 18 January 25 .
... her face . The mother's smile , the children's kiss , And home's serene abounding bliss ; The fruitage of a life that bore But idle summer blooms before . Bayard Taylor . January 26 . January 27 . Mary Hyde Buckingham , 18 January 25 .
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... smiles to keep for ever bright The sunshine on his lips , And faith that sees the ring of light Round nature's last eclipse ! February 23 . O. W. Holmes . In all his ways He showed that quiet of the upper world A breath can turn to ...
... smiles to keep for ever bright The sunshine on his lips , And faith that sees the ring of light Round nature's last eclipse ! February 23 . O. W. Holmes . In all his ways He showed that quiet of the upper world A breath can turn to ...
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Alice Cary April August August 29 Bayard Taylor beauty bless breath bright brow calm Celia Thaxter dark dear December December 23 doth dream E. C. Stedman E. S. Phelps earth eyes face fair faith February February 29 feet flowers God's grace H. H. Jackson H. W. Longfellow hand hath heart heaven hope J. C. R. Dorr J. G. Whittier J. R. Lowell January January 11 Joaquin Miller July June life's light lives look Lucy Larcom M. M. Dodge March N. P. Willis November November 11 O. W. Holmes o'er October patience Phabe Cary R. H. Stoddard R. W. Emerson September September 27 shining skies smile sorrow soul stars sweet T. B. Aldrich T. B. Read tears tender thee thine things thou art toil trust truth unto voice W. C. Bryant W. D. Howells woman's youth Z. B. Gustafson
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Page 229 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread...
Page 36 - Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest...
Page 232 - 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 88 - 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 68 - Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
Page 166 - And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed he will not break, But strengthen and sustain.
Page 22 - Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, — they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
Page 264 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 126 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 7 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag, wavering to and fro, Crossed and recrossed the winged snow: And ere the early bedtime came The white drift piled the window-frame, And through the glass the clothes-line posts Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts.