Heart Throbs: In Prose and Verse |
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... Rock Me to Sleep , " in " Sunset Songs and Other Verses . " Lothrop , Lee & Shepard . Richard Burton's poem : " Black Sheep , " in " Lyrics of Brotherhood . " Lothrop , Lee & Shepard , Boston . Charles M. Dickinson's poem : " The ...
... Rock Me to Sleep , " in " Sunset Songs and Other Verses . " Lothrop , Lee & Shepard . Richard Burton's poem : " Black Sheep , " in " Lyrics of Brotherhood . " Lothrop , Lee & Shepard , Boston . Charles M. Dickinson's poem : " The ...
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... fathers died , Land of the pilgrims ' pride ; From every mountain side , Let freedom ring . My native country thee , Land of the noble free , - Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills , Thy woods and HEART THROBS . 11.
... fathers died , Land of the pilgrims ' pride ; From every mountain side , Let freedom ring . My native country thee , Land of the noble free , - Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills , Thy woods and HEART THROBS . 11.
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... rocks their silence break- The sound prolong . Our fathers ' God ! to Thee , Author of liberty , To Thee we sing ; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light ; Protect us by Thy might , Great God , our King ! S. F. Smith , LL ...
... rocks their silence break- The sound prolong . Our fathers ' God ! to Thee , Author of liberty , To Thee we sing ; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light ; Protect us by Thy might , Great God , our King ! S. F. Smith , LL ...
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... rocks . No words that I know of will say what mosses are . None are delicate enough , none perfect enough , none rich enough ... rock spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass - the traceries of intricate silver , and fringes of amber ...
... rocks . No words that I know of will say what mosses are . None are delicate enough , none perfect enough , none rich enough ... rock spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass - the traceries of intricate silver , and fringes of amber ...
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... rock , they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow , and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip - gold , far above , among the ...
... rock , they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow , and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip - gold , far above , among the ...
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Alfred Tennyson Alice Cary angels auld lang syne beautiful bird bless brave breath brow cheer child clouds dark dead dear death door dream earth Eliza Cook eyes face fair father feet Finnigin flag Flannigan flowers forever gentle give glad glory gone grave hand happy hath head hear heard heart Heaven hope James Whitcomb Riley Joaquin Miller kiss knew land laugh life's light lips live look Lord Mark Hanna morning mother never Nevermore night o'er Oliver Wendell Holmes pain pass poem pray prayer rest Rock Roquefort cheese rose Sam Walter Foss shadow shining silent sing sleep smile song sorrow soul Star Spangled Banner stars sweet tears tell tender Thee There's things thou thought toil tonight Twas voice wait wave weary Westward ho whispered wings word young
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Page 326 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 361 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 126 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At' that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 160 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 327 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Page 11 - I'd be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee ! 3 There let the way appear Steps unto heaven; All that thou sendest me, In mercy given; Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee!
Page 9 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget...
Page 147 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 47 - O Christ, art all I want; More than all in Thee I find: Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind. Just and holy is Thy name; I am all unrighteousness; False and full of sin I am, Thou art full of truth and grace.
Page 297 - Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be?' 'How many? Seven in all,' she said, And wondering looked at me. 'And where are they? I pray you tell.' She answered, 'Seven are we; And two of us at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea. 'Two of us in the church-yard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the church-yard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother.