Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainment: Arranged for the Exercises of the School, College and Public Reader, with Elocutionary AdviceRobert McLean Cumnock Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1882 - 426 oldal |
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17. oldal
... rest . Now the boat was out at sea . And now there was a shore before him . Who stood on the bank ! — " Mamma is like you , Floy . I know her by the face ! " The golden ripple on the wall came back again , and noth- ing else stirred in ...
... rest . Now the boat was out at sea . And now there was a shore before him . Who stood on the bank ! — " Mamma is like you , Floy . I know her by the face ! " The golden ripple on the wall came back again , and noth- ing else stirred in ...
24. oldal
... Perishing gloomily , Spurred by contumely , Cold inhumanity , Burning insanity , Into her rest ! Cross her hands humbly , As if praying dumbly , Over her breast ! BINGEN ON THE RHINE . Owning her weakness , Her 24 THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS .
... Perishing gloomily , Spurred by contumely , Cold inhumanity , Burning insanity , Into her rest ! Cross her hands humbly , As if praying dumbly , Over her breast ! BINGEN ON THE RHINE . Owning her weakness , Her 24 THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS .
27. oldal
... rest By all their country's wishes blessed ! When Spring , with dewy fingers cold , Returns to deck their hallowed mould , She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod . By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By ...
... rest By all their country's wishes blessed ! When Spring , with dewy fingers cold , Returns to deck their hallowed mould , She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod . By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By ...
30. oldal
... rest . " Rock of Ages , cleft for me , " Sung above a coffin - lid ; Underneath , all restfully All life's cares and sorrows hid . Never more , O storm - tossed soul , Never more from wind or tide , Never more from billow's roll Wilt ...
... rest . " Rock of Ages , cleft for me , " Sung above a coffin - lid ; Underneath , all restfully All life's cares and sorrows hid . Never more , O storm - tossed soul , Never more from wind or tide , Never more from billow's roll Wilt ...
35. oldal
... rest Your truth and valor wearing : The bravest are the tenderest , - The loving are the daring . BAYARD TAYLOR . 35 THE LOST STEAMSHIP . " Ho , there ! fisherman , hold your hand ! Tell me what is that far away- There , where over the ...
... rest Your truth and valor wearing : The bravest are the tenderest , - The loving are the daring . BAYARD TAYLOR . 35 THE LOST STEAMSHIP . " Ho , there ! fisherman , hold your hand ! Tell me what is that far away- There , where over the ...
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299. oldal - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
51. oldal - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
232. oldal - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
350. oldal - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" — The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord.
319. oldal - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide; And now am I come with this lost love of mine To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
388. oldal - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
361. oldal - I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
326. oldal - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ! What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man, for a
232. oldal - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...