Wayside Gleanings for Leisure MomentsJ. Wilson and son, 1882 - 150 páginas |
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... poor devils , scrape and fiddle As best we can , some well , some ill . The poor man's Tempo is Andante , Allegro suits the rich man well , And in the great man's Maestoso Our piping notes the music swell . But many a one doth vainly ...
... poor devils , scrape and fiddle As best we can , some well , some ill . The poor man's Tempo is Andante , Allegro suits the rich man well , And in the great man's Maestoso Our piping notes the music swell . But many a one doth vainly ...
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... poor Mr. Fleet , half distracted with her endless nursery ditties , finding all other means fail , tried what ridicule could effect , and actually printed a book with the title , " Songs for The name of Love the sacred name of the ...
... poor Mr. Fleet , half distracted with her endless nursery ditties , finding all other means fail , tried what ridicule could effect , and actually printed a book with the title , " Songs for The name of Love the sacred name of the ...
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... poor ; ' T was royalty cursed me In secret , I'm sure . I live not , I die not , But tell you I must , That ages have passed Since I first turned to dust . This parody : whence this Squalor ? This splendor ? Say , was I a thing , or a ...
... poor ; ' T was royalty cursed me In secret , I'm sure . I live not , I die not , But tell you I must , That ages have passed Since I first turned to dust . This parody : whence this Squalor ? This splendor ? Say , was I a thing , or a ...
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... poor girl went away considerably confused , but determined to pay him back in his own coin . While at dinner , the stage moss How he laughs , good - natured fellow ! Bad luck fishing makes most men cross . man asked , " Does the stage ...
... poor girl went away considerably confused , but determined to pay him back in his own coin . While at dinner , the stage moss How he laughs , good - natured fellow ! Bad luck fishing makes most men cross . man asked , " Does the stage ...
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... poor as the poorest of them . With rapid gestures of her large , shapely hands , her eyes glowing with the fire of her own pecu- liar genius , and her habitual intensity , she told them that whatever she had attained had been by giving ...
... poor as the poorest of them . With rapid gestures of her large , shapely hands , her eyes glowing with the fire of her own pecu- liar genius , and her habitual intensity , she told them that whatever she had attained had been by giving ...
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Página 58 - And children coming home from school, Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Página 31 - God ! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand, We meet to-day, united, free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done, And trust Thee for the opening one.
Página 46 - We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more, From Mississippi's winding stream and from New England's shore; We leave our ploughs and workshops, our wives and children dear, With hearts too full for utterance, with but a silent tear; We dare not look behind us, but steadfastly before : We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more...
Página 114 - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Página 111 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fatal lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Página 111 - Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 117 - Shall we sit idly down and say The night hath come; it is no longer day? The night hath not yet come; we are not quite Cut off from...
Página 111 - As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Página 114 - The drum-beat repeated o'er and o'er, And the bugle wild and shrill. And the music of that old song Throbs in my memory still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Página 128 - He is an exceptional genius. The people who care nothing for literature and poetry care for Burns. It was indifferent — they thought who saw him — whether he wrote verse or not : he could have done anything else as welL Yet how true a poet is he ! And the poet, too, of poor men, of gray hodden and the guernsey coat and the blouse.