Mothers' Day Book: For and about Mothers from Mother-lovers Throughout the WorldStudio Press, 1911 - 35 páginas |
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Mother's Day Book: For And About Mothers From Mother-Lovers Throughout The ... Charlotte Brewster Jordan Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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Página 26 - Backward, turn backward, O time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care. Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.
Página 18 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Página 6 - Happy he With such a mother ! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Página 24 - LIKE a cradle rocking, rocking, Silent, peaceful, to and fro— Like a mother's sweet looks dropping On the little face below— Hangs the green earth, swinging, turning, Jarless, noiseless, safe and slow ; Falls the light of God's face bending Down and watching us below.
Página 15 - Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky; Hundreds of shells on the shore together; Hundreds of birds that go singing by; Hundreds of bees in the sunny weather. Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn; Hundreds of lambs in the purple clover; Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn; But only one mother the wide world over.
Página 14 - The bravest battle that ever was fought! Shall I tell you where and when ? On the maps of the world you will find it not : 'Twas fought by the mothers of men.
Página 26 - Over my heart, in the days that are flown, No love like mother-love ever has shone; No other worship abides and endures,— Faithful, unselfish, and patient, like yours: None like a mother can charm away pain From the sick soul and the world-weary brain.
Página 23 - Neither your condition nor your character make it fit for me to say much. You have been the best mother, and I believe the best woman in the world. I thank you for your indulgence to me, and beg forgiveness of all that I have done ill, and all that I have omitted to do well.
Página 14 - Twas fought by the mothers of men. Nay, not with cannon or battle shot, With sword or nobler pen ; Nay, not with eloquent words or thought, From mouths of wonderful men ; But deep in a walled-up woman's heart — Of woman that would not yield, But bravely, silently, bore her part — Lo ! there is that battlefield.
Página 23 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.