Gems by the Way-side: An Offering of Purity and Truth..R.T. Young, 1853 - 408 oldal |
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140 FULTON STREET amid Arabs army Ashowe beautiful Besme birds bless body bosom Branson bright CHARLES WILKES charms child Christian cloth dark Dead Sea dear death deep delight dollars dress Duke of Guise earth eyes father feel feet flowers friends gazed gems gentle gilt grave hand happy head heard heart heaven hill holy hope hour hundred husband Indians lady land light live look marriage Mary milreis mind morning mother Mount Vernon mountain never night noble o'er Ole Bull Palace Square parents passed poor prayer religious habits rich river scene Sea of Galilee seen shore side sing Sodom song soon soul spirit stream sweet Sweet Charlie tears theater thee thing thou thought thousand Tiberias tion trees violin voice Washington wife wild wind woman young youth Zoar
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163. oldal - And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him.
362. oldal - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
236. oldal - And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, Which God hath planned, — To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the winds and waves; its organ thunder; Its dome the sky.
325. oldal - MY days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
79. oldal - And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways.
74. oldal - We found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the sea. It slightly decreases in size upwards, crumbles at the top, and is one entire mass of crystallization.
342. oldal - Touch us gently, Time ! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently, — as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream ! Humble voyagers are We, Husband, wife, and children three — (One is lost, — an angel, fled To the azure overhead ! ) Touch us gently, Time! We've not proud nor soaring wings : Our ambition, our content Lies in simple things. Humble voyagers are We, O'er Life's dim unsounded sea, Seeking only some calm clime : — Touch us gently, gentle Time ! EBENEZER ELLIOTT.
236. oldal - Your voiceless lips, O Flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral Apostles ! that in dewy splendor " Weep without woe, and blush without a crime...
251. oldal - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
337. oldal - And ever-restless feet of one, who, now, Gathers the blossoms of her fourth bright year ; There plays a gladness o'er her fair young brow As breaks the varied scene upon her sight, Upheaved and spread in verdure and in light. For I have taught her, with delighted eye, To gaze upon the...