 Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.  Class-book of English Poetry - Page 83by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Amy (fict.name.) - 1856 - 248 pages
...use to ourselves or others. I see it now, and can answer yours by another verse of Longfellow's — ' Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees its close. Something attempted, something done, Has earn'da night's repose.'... | |
 | Handicraft - 1857 - 34 pages
...the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise ! He needs must think of her once more...through life he goes, Each morning sees some task began, Each evening sees its close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...her once more, 138 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. How in the grave she lies ; And with his hard, rough haiul he wipes A tear out of his eyes. Toiling, — rejoicing,...it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast tanght... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 pages
...his daughter singing in the village-choir :— " It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more,...hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes." And how excellent the moral of the next stanza,— " Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through... | |
 | 1857 - 986 pages
...the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like her mother's voice. Singing in Paradise ! He needs must think of her once more,...And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of hie eyes. Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...village choir, and it makes his heart rejoice. 6. It sounds to him like her mother's voice singing in paradise ; He needs must think of her once more, how in the grave she lies,And with his hard, rough hand he wipes a tear from out his eyes. 8. Thanks, thanks to thee, my... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. 6. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies v ; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes. 7. Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing,... | |
 | Fairleigh - 1857 - 184 pages
...honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees its close;— Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.... | |
 | Hearty staves, John Erskine Clarke - Hymns, English - 1858 - 152 pages
...village choir ; And it makes his heart rejoice— It sounds to him like her mother's voice Singing in paradise. He needs must think of her once more—...tear out of his eyes. Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Each evening sees its close; Something attempted, something done, Onward through life he goes ; Each... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1858 - 264 pages
...the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise ! He needs must think of her onCe more,...hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes. Toiling,—rej oicing,—sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin,... | |
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