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... sweet repose . JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND . CHOOSING A NAME . I HAVE got a new - born sister ; I was nigh the first that kissed her . When the nursing - woman brought her To papa , his infant daughter , How papa's dear eyes did glisten ...
... sweet repose . JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND . CHOOSING A NAME . I HAVE got a new - born sister ; I was nigh the first that kissed her . When the nursing - woman brought her To papa , his infant daughter , How papa's dear eyes did glisten ...
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... sweet temper , and thy spirit free , Didst come , as restless as a bird's wing glan- cing , Full of a wild and irrepressible mirth , Like a young sunbeam to the gladdened earth ! Thine was the shout , the song , the burst of joy , Which ...
... sweet temper , and thy spirit free , Didst come , as restless as a bird's wing glan- cing , Full of a wild and irrepressible mirth , Like a young sunbeam to the gladdened earth ! Thine was the shout , the song , the burst of joy , Which ...
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... sweet tune , Morning rises into noon , May glides onward into June . Childhood is the bough where slumbered Birds and blossoms many - numbered ; - Age , that bough with snows encumbered . Gather , then , each flower that grows , When ...
... sweet tune , Morning rises into noon , May glides onward into June . Childhood is the bough where slumbered Birds and blossoms many - numbered ; - Age , that bough with snows encumbered . Gather , then , each flower that grows , When ...
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... Sweet Stome ! which , seek through the world , is Home , home , neer met with elsewhere ! - sweet , sweet home ! POEMS OF THE AFFECTIONS . FRIENDSHIP . THE QUARREL OF. Mid plasures and palaces shough Be it ever . so hamble , A charm from ...
... Sweet Stome ! which , seek through the world , is Home , home , neer met with elsewhere ! - sweet , sweet home ! POEMS OF THE AFFECTIONS . FRIENDSHIP . THE QUARREL OF. Mid plasures and palaces shough Be it ever . so hamble , A charm from ...
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... sweet years arose and fell , From flower to flower , from snow to snow . ยท But where the path we walked began To slant the fifth autumnal slope , As we descended following Hope , There sat the Shadow feared of man ; Who broke our fair ...
... sweet years arose and fell , From flower to flower , from snow to snow . ยท But where the path we walked began To slant the fifth autumnal slope , As we descended following Hope , There sat the Shadow feared of man ; Who broke our fair ...
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ALEXANDER POPE ALFRED TENNYSON beauty bells beneath bird blessed bosom breast breath bright brow cheek clouds cold dark dead dear death deep doth dream earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes face fair fear flowers gentle glory gone grave green hair hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hill hour JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER king kiss lady land leaves light lips live look Lord moon morning mother ne'er never nevermore night o'er PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY praise rest ROBERT BURNS rose round shine shore sigh silent sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spring stars stood sweet tears tell thee There's thine things THOMAS HOOD THOMAS MOORE thou art thought tree voice wave weary weep wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings