Woman in All Lands: Her Domestic, Social and Intellectual Condition, Interspersed with Strange Scenes, Customs, Romances, EtcC.F. Roper & Company, 1880 - 505 oldal |
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30. oldal
... trusty sabre , In its sheath of rust , decay ? Shall another's hand thy rifle Bear upon the mountain's side ? Shall another wear thy girdle With its clasps of silver wide ? Oh my husband ! oh my master i None thine 30 CAUCASIA .
... trusty sabre , In its sheath of rust , decay ? Shall another's hand thy rifle Bear upon the mountain's side ? Shall another wear thy girdle With its clasps of silver wide ? Oh my husband ! oh my master i None thine 30 CAUCASIA .
35. oldal
... side Stood a fair Tcherkese , in her maiden pride . She spoke , and her voice was soft and low , And sweet as the fount with its silver flow . He knew of her tongue not a single word , But a sweeter voice he had never heard ; And she ...
... side Stood a fair Tcherkese , in her maiden pride . She spoke , and her voice was soft and low , And sweet as the fount with its silver flow . He knew of her tongue not a single word , But a sweeter voice he had never heard ; And she ...
40. oldal
... side of the house . This win- dow is adorned with stained glass , and the carved work of the frame is of the same tasteful character as the ornamentation of the saloons . Unfortunately , there is another side to this exterior of ...
... side of the house . This win- dow is adorned with stained glass , and the carved work of the frame is of the same tasteful character as the ornamentation of the saloons . Unfortunately , there is another side to this exterior of ...
42. oldal
... side by side , or piled upon each other like geological strata , as in Western Asia . And who are the peoples which now inhabit this ground , hallowed by the most ancient traditions ? We find first , the Ottomans , the ruling race ...
... side by side , or piled upon each other like geological strata , as in Western Asia . And who are the peoples which now inhabit this ground , hallowed by the most ancient traditions ? We find first , the Ottomans , the ruling race ...
43. oldal
... sides enclosed by seas . The provinces of the coast depend on Anatolia for the choic- est productions of the soil . The north is fine woodland , the interior steppes , and the west with Smyrna for its business. WESTERN ASIA . 43.
... sides enclosed by seas . The provinces of the coast depend on Anatolia for the choic- est productions of the soil . The north is fine woodland , the interior steppes , and the west with Smyrna for its business. WESTERN ASIA . 43.
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Népszerű szakaszok
433. oldal - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling, Turns the long light that drops adown the wall, Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, 'O ye wheels' (breaking out in a mad moaning) 'Stop!
83. oldal - Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
434. oldal - And now, what time ye all may read through dimming tears his story, How discord on the music fell and darkness on the glory, And how when, one by one, sweet sounds and wandering lights departed, He wore no less a loving face because so broken-hearted...
434. oldal - IT is a place where poets crowned may feel the heart's decaying ; It is a place where happy saints may weep amid their praying : Yet let the grief and humbleness as low as silence languish : Earth surely now may give her calm to whom she gave her anguish.
434. oldal - He shall be strong to sanctify the poet's high vocation, And bow the meekest Christian down in meeker adoration; Nor ever shall he be, in praise, by wise or good forsaken, Named softly as the household name of one whom God hath taken.
433. oldal - Ay, be silent ! Let them hear each other breathing For a moment, mouth to mouth — Let them touch each other's hands, in a fresh wreathing Of their tender human youth ! Let them feel that this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God fashions or reveals — Let them prove their...
93. oldal - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
435. oldal - Deserted! Who hath dreamt, that when the cross in darkness rested, Upon the victim's hidden face no love was manifested? What frantic hands outstretched have e'er the atoning drops averted? What tears have washed them from the soul, that one should be deserted?
469. oldal - Or where the ruddy autumn fire Lights up the apple-paring, — " The coarseness of a ruder time Her finer mirth displaces, A subtler sense of pleasure fills Each rustic sport she graces. " Her presence lends its warmth and health To all who come before it. If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.
435. oldal - Adam's sins have swept between The righteous Son and Father — Yea ! once, Immanuel's orphaned cry, His universe hath shaken — It went up single, echoless, " My God, I am forsaken !" It went up from the Holy's lips Amid his lost creation, That of the lost, no son should use Those words of desolation...