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admiration angel answered arms asked beautiful believe bless blush bosom Brahan breath brother brow CAROLINE LEE HENTZ cheek child clasped cloud cold countenance cried dare dark dear deep dream Edith Ernest Linwood exclaimed eyes face father fear feel felt flowers forgive Gabriella gaze gentle girl glance glowing Grandison Place grave hair hand happy Harlowe heard heart heaven hour husband imagination knew laugh light lips live looked Madge Margaret marriage morning mother NEHEMIAH ADAMS ness never night pale passed passion passionate emotions Peggy Puritan Recorder rapture Regulus Richard Clyde romantic love rose round SACRED HARP scene seemed shadow smile soft sorrow soul speak spirit strong sweet tears tell tence tenderness thing thought tion told trembling tremulous turned uncon utter voice walk wild wish woman wonder words York Observer young youth
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Page 440 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!
Page 185 - Though the virgins of Salem lament, Be the judge and the hero unbent! I have won the great battle for thee, And my Father and Country are free! When this blood of thy giving hath gush'd, When the voice that thou lovest is hush'd, Let my memory still be thy pride, And forget not I smiled as I died!
Page 419 - Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. 3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all : 4 There shall I bathe my weary soul, In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast.
Page 110 - These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 337 - As when fire is with water commixed and contending ; And the spray of its wrath to the welkin upsoars, And flood upon flood hurries on, never ending ; And it never will rest, nor from travail be free, Like a sea that is laboring the birth of a sea.
Page 225 - To think how poorly eloquence of words Translates the poetry of hearts like ours ! And when night came, amidst the breathless Heavens We'd guess what star should be our home when love Becomes immortal; while the perfumed light Stole through the mists of alabaster lamps, And every air was heavy with the sighs Of orange -groves and music from sweet lutes, And murmurs of low fountains that gush forth I' the midst of roses ! — Dost thou like the picture ? Pauline.
Page 212 - And find them flown her empty nest. The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void — The leafless...
Page 165 - I did not think of paying this tribute to his memory ; but that scene was so indelibly stamped on my mind, I could not help delineating it. It was then and there I first beheld your father. " The barge was rowed by eight soldiers, dressed in uniform, and their oars all dipped and flashed with simultaneous motion. Nothing could be more harmoniously beautiful; but the restless spirit of Mrs. Lynn suggested a change. " ' Raise the sail,' she exclaimed,
Page 49 - before my spirit wings its upward flight, receive my dying injunction. If you live to years of womanhood, and your heart awakens to love, — as, alas, for woman's destiny it will, — then read my life and sad experience, and be warned by my example.