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Pagina 16
... fell on her knees , and thanks to God Poured forth like a full flood tide . Along the battery line her cry Had fallen among the men ; And they started ; for they were there to die , Was life so near them then ? They listened , for life ...
... fell on her knees , and thanks to God Poured forth like a full flood tide . Along the battery line her cry Had fallen among the men ; And they started ; for they were there to die , Was life so near them then ? They listened , for life ...
Pagina 22
... fell , the confounded things would come like a goose - yoke athwart my neck , pinning me down . As I proceeded the mud grew deeper , the roots farther apart , and the blazed trees less frequent . Never before did I so truly realize the ...
... fell , the confounded things would come like a goose - yoke athwart my neck , pinning me down . As I proceeded the mud grew deeper , the roots farther apart , and the blazed trees less frequent . Never before did I so truly realize the ...
Pagina 40
... fell to work upon the hay - band ; the boat , being eaten from its moorings , floated down the river with the bull in it ; it struck against a rock , beat a hole in the bottom of the boat , and tossed the bull overboard ; whereupon the ...
... fell to work upon the hay - band ; the boat , being eaten from its moorings , floated down the river with the bull in it ; it struck against a rock , beat a hole in the bottom of the boat , and tossed the bull overboard ; whereupon the ...
Pagina 47
... fell and miserably died . They buried him - ah ! little recks it where His bloated form was given to the worms . No stone marked that neglected , lonely spot ; No mourner sorrowing at evening came , To pray by that unhallowed mound ; no ...
... fell and miserably died . They buried him - ah ! little recks it where His bloated form was given to the worms . No stone marked that neglected , lonely spot ; No mourner sorrowing at evening came , To pray by that unhallowed mound ; no ...
Pagina 54
... stairs , And arrived at the door to hear both of their prayers ; His Annie's " Bless papa " drew forth the big tears , And Willie's grave promise fell sweet on his ears . " Strange strange - I'd forgotten , " said he 54 BEST SELECTIONS.
... stairs , And arrived at the door to hear both of their prayers ; His Annie's " Bless papa " drew forth the big tears , And Willie's grave promise fell sweet on his ears . " Strange strange - I'd forgotten , " said he 54 BEST SELECTIONS.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 21 - I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation : He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Pagina 90 - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and 30 sound. And he was angry, and would not go in : therefore came his father out, and entreated him.
Pagina 148 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!
Pagina 49 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Pagina 149 - Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them...
Pagina 98 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Pagina 59 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Pagina 102 - O well for the sailor lad. That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Pagina 63 - Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Pagina 99 - He stayed not for brake and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...