Uncle Tom's pictorial keepsakeTom (uncle, pseud) 1852 |
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... WINTER comes behind , - Thus " the Children of the Year ' " " On the earth by turns sppear . The child under the guidance of this spirit of beauty and freshness , wandering day by day through the meads and woodlands , which put forth ...
... WINTER comes behind , - Thus " the Children of the Year ' " " On the earth by turns sppear . The child under the guidance of this spirit of beauty and freshness , wandering day by day through the meads and woodlands , which put forth ...
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... WINTER , it may be seen sprinkled , though scantily , over the down , and met with in the most unexpected places , hence it has been compared by another poet to a pleasant thought ' t which comes into the mind and cheers and brightens ...
... WINTER , it may be seen sprinkled , though scantily , over the down , and met with in the most unexpected places , hence it has been compared by another poet to a pleasant thought ' t which comes into the mind and cheers and brightens ...
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... winter season , and I know by his singing that my reign is about half over ; thousands and thousands of miles has he flown , over sea and over land , since last he built his nest and reared his young ones in yonder grove ; and when ...
... winter season , and I know by his singing that my reign is about half over ; thousands and thousands of miles has he flown , over sea and over land , since last he built his nest and reared his young ones in yonder grove ; and when ...
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... winter , and which when buried in the earth , are two years before they germinate , as it is called , that is , put forth the tiny stalk , with its twin leaflets , which is eventually to grow into a stout thorny tree , -how wonderful ...
... winter , and which when buried in the earth , are two years before they germinate , as it is called , that is , put forth the tiny stalk , with its twin leaflets , which is eventually to grow into a stout thorny tree , -how wonderful ...
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... The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem , amid the young and gay , More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the holly - tree . Scripture Bistories . CHILD REWARDED . En Four Parts . 50.
... The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem , amid the young and gay , More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the holly - tree . Scripture Bistories . CHILD REWARDED . En Four Parts . 50.
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amid animals Annette asked AUTUMN basket beautiful birds Bistory blossoms brethren Bretwalda bright called Canaan Canute CHARLES MACKAY cheerful child clouds colour corn Crocus Cuckoo Daisy dear delight dream earth Effie Egypt Emma Esther eyes father fear flowers friends garden golden green H. G. ADAMS Haman hand happy hear heard heaven Heptarchy Jews John John Bunyan Joseph Julius Cćsar Kildermekée king king's knew land leaves lived looked mamma MARY HOWITT meadows Mordecai morning mother Nebuchadnezzar nest papa Pharaoh poet Poet's Corner poor Potiphar Potipherah pray Prince purple Nightshade Robin round Saxons season seemed seen silver singing sleep snow Snowdrop soon Spring Starling stood storm SUMMER sunshine sweet tell thee things thou thought told took tree unto violets voice wicked wild Wilmot wind WINTER wood worm young
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Page 308 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours yield, They flourish and decline. But this small flower, to Nature dear, While moons and stars their courses run, Wreathes the whole circle of the year, Companion of the Sun.
Page 57 - The seven good kine are seven years: and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Page 55 - And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
Page 48 - And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.
Page 142 - Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The...
Page 204 - THE VIOLET. DOWN in a green and shady bed, A modest violet grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view.
Page 58 - And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
Page 58 - Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land...
Page 205 - I am coming, I am coming! Hark! the little bee is humming; See! the lark is soaring high In the bright and sunny sky; And the gnats are on the wing, Wheeling round in airy ring.
Page 59 - And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.