Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. Notes and Queries - Page 441887Full view - About this book
| United States - 1843 - 678 pages
...a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought !" "THE BEGGAR. A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by ; Fill up my pilgrim's... | |
| Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the naming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus,...sounding anvil, shaped Each burning deed and thought. LONGFELLOW. TO HIS MOTHER. MY mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious... | |
| Life - 1844 - 308 pages
...AT THORNLEY HALL. " Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life. Our fortunes must be...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought." OUR Atlantic excursion had greatly lessened the interval that should subsist ere we set out for Camhridge.... | |
| The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus, at the flaming forge of life, Our fortunes must be...sounding anvil shaped, Each burning deed and thought ! GARDENING HINTS FOR FEBRUARY. HOTHOUSES, CONSERVATORIES, &C. Conservatory. — Where forced flowers... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...repose. Thanks, thanks to thee,my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the naming forge of Life Our fortunes must be wrought, Thus on...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1845 - 338 pages
...a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of Life Our fortunes must be...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. THE KOBIN. BY JONES VERY. THOU need'st not flutter from thy half-built nest, Whene'er thou hear'st... | |
| William Russell, John Goldsbury - Elocution - 1845 - 292 pages
...a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus, at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! EXERCISE LXVn. • SPOTS ON THE SUN — Dr Dick. We err most egregiously, when we attempt to compare... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life. Our fortunes must be...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. LESSON LXI. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION. Pla.y, people, peopfd, peopFdst, scruples, scrupFst, open, open'd,... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus — at the flaming forge of Life, Our fortunes must be...sounding anvil shaped, Each burning deed, and thought. There's a tear that falls when we part From a friend whose loss we shall mourn ; There's a tear thatflows... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...earn'da night's repuse. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be...sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! " I have here made only a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own, but the... | |
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