Buds for the Bridal WreathSpencer, 1868 |
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... spirit and influence , as truly as in their origin ! But as neither plighted vows , nor wed- ding ring , nor ceremony of minister , can make a true marriage when there is no union of hearts , so living beneath the same roof in the most ...
... spirit and influence , as truly as in their origin ! But as neither plighted vows , nor wed- ding ring , nor ceremony of minister , can make a true marriage when there is no union of hearts , so living beneath the same roof in the most ...
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... spirit , the home affections , the home love , are wanting . Marriage is sacred , but marriages may be profane . Home is of God , but homes may be godless . O how sad and disastrous , — how fruit- ful of sorrow and woe , when that which ...
... spirit , the home affections , the home love , are wanting . Marriage is sacred , but marriages may be profane . Home is of God , but homes may be godless . O how sad and disastrous , — how fruit- ful of sorrow and woe , when that which ...
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... spirit , and purpose , - let the married pair have these , -- and they have a foundation for home that will not crumble . These will gild with peace and joy the lowliest circumstances , beautify the humblest home , sweeten daily toil ...
... spirit , and purpose , - let the married pair have these , -- and they have a foundation for home that will not crumble . These will gild with peace and joy the lowliest circumstances , beautify the humblest home , sweeten daily toil ...
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... spirits to one thought . ' " And tell me how love cometh : ' It comes unsought , unsent . ' And tell me how love goeth : " That was not love that went . ' " Such is love's thought of love . It is wrapped in sacred mysteries . " It comes ...
... spirits to one thought . ' " And tell me how love cometh : ' It comes unsought , unsent . ' And tell me how love goeth : " That was not love that went . ' " Such is love's thought of love . It is wrapped in sacred mysteries . " It comes ...
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... spirit that wooes and wins it ? What so likely to keep bright and burning the first warm love of the heart , or to ripen the enchanting flower into the delicious , healthful , and nourishing fruit , as that spirit of persistent ...
... spirit that wooes and wins it ? What so likely to keep bright and burning the first warm love of the heart , or to ripen the enchanting flower into the delicious , healthful , and nourishing fruit , as that spirit of persistent ...
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affec altar angels beautify beauty bless BRIDAL WREATH BUDS chaste chastity cheer cherished and cultivated Christ Christian Christian faith craves dear home deep deepest loves divine doth earth earthly enchantment endeavor fear flow flowers fresh friendship gentle give graces grow guard hallow happiness hath heaven heavenly holiest Holy Estate home affections home joys hope human heart husband and wife immortal impart influence intima intimacies jugal love KINGDOM OF HEAVEN LAW OF CHRIST LET THE WIFE life's live love takes lust marriage vow married pair minister mutual nature neap tides neath never o'er peace perfect pleasure prayer pure affection purest REFINE religion rills roam sacred sanctified shine smile sorrow spirit subserve sun and moon sweet tempests tender relation tenderest relations thee thine thought thousand little tides tions trials true conjugal sympathy true home true marriage trust twain union of souls virtues virtuous wedded love woman words
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Page 105 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 91 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend.
Page 85 - Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
Page 71 - THEY sin who tell us Love can die ; With life all other passions fly — All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth. But Love is indestructible ; Its holy flame for ever burneth, From heaven it came, to heaven returneth...
Page 50 - The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear ; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Page 56 - Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate. The union which is thus effected, and which adds a new value to every atom in nature, for it transmutes every thread throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray, and bathes the soul in a new and sweeter element, is yet a temporary state. Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
Page 91 - Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 91 - Time-tutored age and love-exalted youth: The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's...
Page 99 - A something light as air — a look — A word unkind, or wrongly taken, Oh ! love, that tempests never shook, - A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Page 44 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.