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... Fire of Driftwood , The BY THE FIRESIDE : — Resignation Builders , The Sonnet Sand of the Desert in an Hour Glass Birds of Passage . Open Window , The Pegasus in Pound Gasper Becerra King Witlaf's Drinking Horn Tegner's Drapa Singers ...
... Fire of Driftwood , The BY THE FIRESIDE : — Resignation Builders , The Sonnet Sand of the Desert in an Hour Glass Birds of Passage . Open Window , The Pegasus in Pound Gasper Becerra King Witlaf's Drinking Horn Tegner's Drapa Singers ...
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... fire - light Dance upon the parlour wall ; - Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved , the true - hearted , Come to visit me once more ; He , the young and strong , who cherished Noble longings for the strife ...
... fire - light Dance upon the parlour wall ; - Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved , the true - hearted , Come to visit me once more ; He , the young and strong , who cherished Noble longings for the strife ...
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... fire , Even such I was , without a sigh or tear , Before the song of those who chime for ever After the chiming of the eternal spheres ; But , when I heard in those sweet melodies Compassion for me , more than had they said , " O ...
... fire , Even such I was , without a sigh or tear , Before the song of those who chime for ever After the chiming of the eternal spheres ; But , when I heard in those sweet melodies Compassion for me , more than had they said , " O ...
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... fire a salute , and the whole procession stops . And straight from many a pocket flies a black - jack filled with punch or brandy . It is passed from hand to hand among the crowd ; provisions are brought from the waggon , and after ...
... fire a salute , and the whole procession stops . And straight from many a pocket flies a black - jack filled with punch or brandy . It is passed from hand to hand among the crowd ; provisions are brought from the waggon , and after ...
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... fire and brand , And hostile hand ! Twelve is the clock . " From his swallow's nest in the belfry he can see the sun all night long ; and farther north the priest stands at his door in the warm midnight , and lights his pipe with a ...
... fire and brand , And hostile hand ! Twelve is the clock . " From his swallow's nest in the belfry he can see the sun all night long ; and farther north the priest stands at his door in the warm midnight , and lights his pipe with a ...
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Page 4 - 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 338 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes. 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 338 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 162 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the Gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean.
Page 365 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventyfive ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "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...
Page 409 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together...
Page 4 - Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 110 - THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, 'That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some...
Page 342 - This was the peasant's last Good-night, A voice replied, far up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device Excelsior ! There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice...
Page 157 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.