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... night was dark and stormy , The wind was howling wild ; A patient mother knelt beside The deathbed of her child . A little worn - out creature- His once bright eyes grown dim ; He was a collier's only child- They called him little Jim ...
... night was dark and stormy , The wind was howling wild ; A patient mother knelt beside The deathbed of her child . A little worn - out creature- His once bright eyes grown dim ; He was a collier's only child- They called him little Jim ...
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... night to him ; And , mother , now I'll go to sleep : " - Alas ! poor little Jim ! She saw that he was dying- The child she loved so dear , Had uttered the last words that she Might ever hope to hear . The cottage door was opened , The ...
... night to him ; And , mother , now I'll go to sleep : " - Alas ! poor little Jim ! She saw that he was dying- The child she loved so dear , Had uttered the last words that she Might ever hope to hear . The cottage door was opened , The ...
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... night ; Keen north - east winds sang through the shrouds , the deck was frosty white ; While overhead the glistening stars put forth their points of light . On deck , behind a bale of goods , two orphans crouched to sleep ; But ' twas ...
... night ; Keen north - east winds sang through the shrouds , the deck was frosty white ; While overhead the glistening stars put forth their points of light . On deck , behind a bale of goods , two orphans crouched to sleep ; But ' twas ...
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... night ! they will not stir again ! The winter's breath proved kind to them , and ended all their pain . But in their deep and freezing sleep clasped rigid to each other , In dreams they cried , " The bright morn breaks ! Home , home is ...
... night ! they will not stir again ! The winter's breath proved kind to them , and ended all their pain . But in their deep and freezing sleep clasped rigid to each other , In dreams they cried , " The bright morn breaks ! Home , home is ...
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... night we wandered homeless- Little Willie cried for " bed . " Parted at the workhouse door , Not a word we said ; Ah ! so tired was poor Willie ! And so sweetly sleep the dead ! ' Twas in the dead of winter We laid him in the earth ...
... night we wandered homeless- Little Willie cried for " bed . " Parted at the workhouse door , Not a word we said ; Ah ! so tired was poor Willie ! And so sweetly sleep the dead ! ' Twas in the dead of winter We laid him in the earth ...
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Page 79 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 84 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 83 - Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Page 139 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 81 - I Remember I remember, I remember, The house where I was born ; The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day ; But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away...
Page 80 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the pass!
Page 141 - Percy present word He would prevent his sport. The English Earl, not fearing that, Did to the woods resort With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Page 173 - ... sounding ; Caught up to meet Him in the skies, With joy their Lord surrounding ; No gloomy fears their souls dismay ; His presence sheds eternal day On those prepared to meet Him.
Page 66 - But still, as wilder blew the wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode armed men — Their trampling sounded nearer. ' O haste thee, haste ! ' the lady cries, ' Though tempests round us gather; I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father.
Page 83 - Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.