The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts, Volumes 1-2C. Scribner & Company, 1868 - American poetry |
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... hills , Dear grandmamma to see . The day is bright , and away we go As swift as swift can be , Over the smoothly trodden snow , Dear grandmamma to see . And look , do look , for there she stands , Aunt Mary by her side , To welcome us ...
... hills , Dear grandmamma to see . The day is bright , and away we go As swift as swift can be , Over the smoothly trodden snow , Dear grandmamma to see . And look , do look , for there she stands , Aunt Mary by her side , To welcome us ...
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... hills . IX . NO ONE EXCUSED . WHA HAT if a drop of rain should plead : " So small a drop as I Can ne'er refresh the thirsty mead ; I'll tarry in the sky " ? What if the shining beam of noon Should in its fountain stay , Because its ...
... hills . IX . NO ONE EXCUSED . WHA HAT if a drop of rain should plead : " So small a drop as I Can ne'er refresh the thirsty mead ; I'll tarry in the sky " ? What if the shining beam of noon Should in its fountain stay , Because its ...
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... hill , one day , AS I listened , and heard a mother sheep say— " In all the green world there is nothing so sweet As my little lammie , with his nimble feet ; With his eye so bright , And his wool so white , Oh , he is my darling , my ...
... hill , one day , AS I listened , and heard a mother sheep say— " In all the green world there is nothing so sweet As my little lammie , with his nimble feet ; With his eye so bright , And his wool so white , Oh , he is my darling , my ...
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... hills , They love the sweet blue sky . O XIV . MY PUSSY . H ! here is Miss Pussy ; She's drinking her milk ; Her coat is as soft And as glossy as silk . She sips it all up With her little lap - lap ; Then , wiping her whiskers , Lies ...
... hills , They love the sweet blue sky . O XIV . MY PUSSY . H ! here is Miss Pussy ; She's drinking her milk ; Her coat is as soft And as glossy as silk . She sips it all up With her little lap - lap ; Then , wiping her whiskers , Lies ...
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... hills and meadows greet The smiles of the first May morn . I'm dressed and ready - come , sister dear , For the birds are carolling loud ; And the sky is soft , and blue , and clear , And there isn't a speck of a cloud . And hark ! I ...
... hills and meadows greet The smiles of the first May morn . I'm dressed and ready - come , sister dear , For the birds are carolling loud ; And the sky is soft , and blue , and clear , And there isn't a speck of a cloud . And hark ! I ...
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angel beautiful beneath bird blessed blue brave breast breath bright brow Caldon Low cheer child clouds cried dark dear death deep doth earth Eliza Cook eyes face fair father fear feet flowers Frances Anne Kemble glory glow golden green hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven Henry of Navarre jackdaw Katydid kiss lady land Leigh Hunt light lips LITTLE ROBIN REDBREASTS live look Lord Mary Howitt merry morning mother mountain ne'er never night o'er ocean Pixies poor pray prayer rest rose round sail Samian wine shine shore sing sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul sound stars stood sweet tears tell tempest thee thine thing Thomas Hood thou thought tree Twas voice waves weary ween weep wild wind wings Winthrop Mackworth Praed word
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Page 275 - 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 54 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 182 - Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: — Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
Page 217 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 240 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 331 - s not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Page 192 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 181 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, a<s the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 255 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown : This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 273 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.