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... grave . William Cowper . INFANT JOY " I HAVE no name ; I am but two days old . " - - " What shall I call thee ? " " I happy am ; Joy is my name . " Sweet joy befall thee ! Pretty joy ! Sweet joy , but two days old . Sweet joy I call ...
... grave . William Cowper . INFANT JOY " I HAVE no name ; I am but two days old . " - - " What shall I call thee ? " " I happy am ; Joy is my name . " Sweet joy befall thee ! Pretty joy ! Sweet joy , but two days old . Sweet joy I call ...
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... graves : But all I hear Is the north wind drear , And all I see are the waves . The Northern Star Is set afar ! Set in the Baltic Sea : And the waves have spread The sandy bed That holds my Love from me . Unknown . SONG OF MARION'S MEN ...
... graves : But all I hear Is the north wind drear , And all I see are the waves . The Northern Star Is set afar ! Set in the Baltic Sea : And the waves have spread The sandy bed That holds my Love from me . Unknown . SONG OF MARION'S MEN ...
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... Grave men there are by broad Santee , Grave men with hoary hairs , Their hearts are all with Marion , For Marion are their prayers . And lovely ladies greet our band With kindliest welcoming , With smiles like those of summer , And ...
... Grave men there are by broad Santee , Grave men with hoary hairs , Their hearts are all with Marion , For Marion are their prayers . And lovely ladies greet our band With kindliest welcoming , With smiles like those of summer , And ...
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... grave she lies ; And with his hard , rough hand he wipes A tear out of his Toiling , rejoicing , eyes . sorrowing , Onward through life he goes ; ROBERT OF LINCOLN Each morning sees some task begin , 50 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.
... grave she lies ; And with his hard , rough hand he wipes A tear out of his Toiling , rejoicing , eyes . sorrowing , Onward through life he goes ; ROBERT OF LINCOLN Each morning sees some task begin , 50 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.
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... grave , and oh ! The difference to me ! William Wordsworth . THREE LUCY in sun and shower ; years she grew Then Nature said , " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine , and I ...
... grave , and oh ! The difference to me ! William Wordsworth . THREE LUCY in sun and shower ; years she grew Then Nature said , " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine , and I ...
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Page 149 - Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
Page 38 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome laud, Though the dark night is near.
Page 141 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew. Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view: Like a rose embowered In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered, Till the scent it gives Makes faint with too much sweet these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.
Page 66 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 59 - Singing of Mount Abora, Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there...
Page 16 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 152 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 2 - Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass ! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; Oh, listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt Among Arabian sands : —A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
Page 157 - And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree • In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
Page 156 - And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.