The Ladies' Repository, Volumes 33-34A. Tompkins, 1865 - Universalism |
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... light in ripples of curls , but straight , though fine and soft , combed off from the low forehead , and knotted with a sprig of scarlet geranium in a profuse coil low on the neck behind . Her dress was a scarlet brocaded silk ...
... light in ripples of curls , but straight , though fine and soft , combed off from the low forehead , and knotted with a sprig of scarlet geranium in a profuse coil low on the neck behind . Her dress was a scarlet brocaded silk ...
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... light breaking through the trees , and a wide bridle - path , gave promise of what they were looking for . They turned silently into the path , wind- ing along by twos , keeping their eyes busy on both sides of them , and in anoth- er ...
... light breaking through the trees , and a wide bridle - path , gave promise of what they were looking for . They turned silently into the path , wind- ing along by twos , keeping their eyes busy on both sides of them , and in anoth- er ...
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... light . They told me that I must not grieve - For him the early dead ; But oh , it was so hard to leave My boy in his darksome bed ! They tell me he's an angel now ; But I wonder if in bliss There's ne'er a shadow on his brow As he ...
... light . They told me that I must not grieve - For him the early dead ; But oh , it was so hard to leave My boy in his darksome bed ! They tell me he's an angel now ; But I wonder if in bliss There's ne'er a shadow on his brow As he ...
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... light night that ' inundates the air ' with beau- ty , that thrills our frame with emotions too fine for utterance , that heaves our spirit with an inspiration before which all words are weak ? The spell resides not in the light or air ...
... light night that ' inundates the air ' with beau- ty , that thrills our frame with emotions too fine for utterance , that heaves our spirit with an inspiration before which all words are weak ? The spell resides not in the light or air ...
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... light of their lives as suffering this winter than ever before be- this girl now ; therefore I thank God the cause of the scarcity of work since the more that she should so early see the sel- failure of so many manufacturing estab ...
... light of their lives as suffering this winter than ever before be- this girl now ; therefore I thank God the cause of the scarcity of work since the more that she should so early see the sel- failure of so many manufacturing estab ...
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Page 160 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 204 - Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather...
Page 204 - They stole little Bridget For seven years long ; "When she 'came down again Her friends were all gone. They took her lightly back Between the night and morrow, They thought that she was fast asleep, But she was dead with sorrow.
Page 42 - ... Dear girl, her name he dared not speak, But, as the song grew louder, Something upon the soldier's cheek Washed off the stains of powder. Beyond the darkening ocean burned The bloody sunset's embers, While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers. And once again a fire of hell Rained on the Russian quarters, With scream of shot, and burst of shell, And bellowing of the mortars! And Irish Nora's eyes are dim For a singer, dumb and gory; And English Mary mourns for him Who sang of...
Page 377 - Where two twin turtle-doves dwell ! 0 cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper That hangs in your clear green bell ! And show me your nest with the young ones in it ; I will not steal them away ; I am old ! you may trust me, linnet, linnet — I am seven times one to-day.
Page 281 - The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ : when he is come he will tell us all things.
Page 41 - They lay along the battery's side. Below the smoking cannon; Brave hearts from Severn and from Clyde, And from the banks of Shannon. They sang of love, and not of fame ; Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recalled a different name, But all sang "Annie Laurie.
Page 359 - I sat and spun within the doore, My thread brake off, I raised myne eyes; The level sun, like ruddy ore, Lay sinking in the barren skies And dark against day's golden death She moved where Lindis wandereth, My sonne's faire wife, Elizabeth. "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!" calling, Ere the early dews were falling, Farre away I heard her song. "Cusha! Cusha!
Page 377 - THERE'S no dew left on the daisies and - clover, There's no rain left in heaven : I've said my "seven times" over and over, Seven times one are seven. I am old, so old, I can write a letter ; My birthday lessons are done; The lambs play always, they know no better ; They are only one times one.
Page 38 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die...