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... Close at her father's side was the gentle Evangeline seated , Spinning flax for the loom , that stood in the corner behind her . Silent awhile were its treadles , at rest was its diligent shuttle , While the monotonous drone of the ...
... Close at her father's side was the gentle Evangeline seated , Spinning flax for the loom , that stood in the corner behind her . Silent awhile were its treadles , at rest was its diligent shuttle , While the monotonous drone of the ...
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... Close at their sides their children ran , and urged on the oxen , While in their little hands they clasped some fragments of play- things . Thus to the Gaspereau's mouth they hurried ; and there on the sea - beach Piled in confusion lay ...
... Close at their sides their children ran , and urged on the oxen , While in their little hands they clasped some fragments of play- things . Thus to the Gaspereau's mouth they hurried ; and there on the sea - beach Piled in confusion lay ...
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... weary with waiting , unhappy and restless , Sought in the Western wilds oblivion of self and of sorrow . Swiftly they glided along , close under the lee of the island . But by the opposite bank , and behind a screen EVANGELINE . 25.
... weary with waiting , unhappy and restless , Sought in the Western wilds oblivion of self and of sorrow . Swiftly they glided along , close under the lee of the island . But by the opposite bank , and behind a screen EVANGELINE . 25.
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... close , And whispered to my restless heart repose ! Go , breathe it in the ear Of all who doubt and fear , And say to them , " Be of good cheer ! " Ye sounds , so low and calm , That in the groves of balm Seemed to me like an angel's ...
... close , And whispered to my restless heart repose ! Go , breathe it in the ear Of all who doubt and fear , And say to them , " Be of good cheer ! " Ye sounds , so low and calm , That in the groves of balm Seemed to me like an angel's ...
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... Close , close it is pressed to the window , As if those childish eyes Were looking into the darkness , To see some form arise . And a woman's waving shadow Is passing to and fro , Now rising to the ceiling , Now bowing and bending low ...
... Close , close it is pressed to the window , As if those childish eyes Were looking into the darkness , To see some form arise . And a woman's waving shadow Is passing to and fro , Now rising to the ceiling , Now bowing and bending low ...
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Acadian Alden Angel answered arrows beautiful behold bells beneath birds breath bright clouds cried CUTH Dacotahs dark dead death door dream earth ELSIE Evangeline eyes face father fear feet Filled flowers forest gazed gleam golden grave hand hast hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha Hoheneck holy John Alden Kenabeek King Olaf land Laughing Laughing Water light listen little Hiawatha look Lord loud LUCIF maiden meadow Miles Standish Minnesinger Mondamin monk moon morning Mudjekeewis night Nokomis o'er Osseo passed Pau-Puk-Keewis Plymouth prayer Prince Priscilla river rose round sail Salern Sandalphon sang seemed shadows shining Sigrid the Haughty silent singing sleep song Song of Hiawatha sorrow soul sound spake stand stars stood strong sunshine sweet Tharaw thee thought unto village voice walls wampum wandered wave Wenonah whispered wigwam wild wind words youth
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Page 144 - 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 113 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each, burning deed and thought.
Page 62 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great : Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 45 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 484 - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Page 286 - A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 93 - He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat, Against the stinging blast ; He cut a rope from a broken spar, And bound her to the mast. " O father ! I hear the church-bells ring, O, say, what may it be?
Page 92 - IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South.
Page 49 - Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
Page 45 - There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. 'Shall I have nought that is fair?' saith he, 'Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again.