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... Browning . January 16th . AND ye beneath life's crushing load , Whose forms are bending low , Who toil along the dusty way , With painful steps and slow , - Look now ! for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on their wing ; Oh ! rest ...
... Browning . January 16th . AND ye beneath life's crushing load , Whose forms are bending low , Who toil along the dusty way , With painful steps and slow , - Look now ! for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on their wing ; Oh ! rest ...
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... Browning . January 20th . RIGHT from the hand of God her spirit came Unstained , and she hath ne'er forgotten whence It came , nor wandered far from thence ; But laboureth to keep her still the same , Near to her place of birth , that ...
... Browning . January 20th . RIGHT from the hand of God her spirit came Unstained , and she hath ne'er forgotten whence It came , nor wandered far from thence ; But laboureth to keep her still the same , Near to her place of birth , that ...
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... THINK not of rest : though dreams be sweet , Start up , and ply your heavenward feet : Is not God's oath upon your head ? Philip B. Marston . Hood . Robert Browning . Keble . February 3rd . February 4th . February 6th . February 18.
... THINK not of rest : though dreams be sweet , Start up , and ply your heavenward feet : Is not God's oath upon your head ? Philip B. Marston . Hood . Robert Browning . Keble . February 3rd . February 4th . February 6th . February 18.
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... Browning . February 7th . WITH loving breath of all the winds , his name Is blown about the world ; but to his friends A sweeter secret hides behind his fame , And Love steals shyly through the loud acclaim , To murmur a " God bless you ...
... Browning . February 7th . WITH loving breath of all the winds , his name Is blown about the world ; but to his friends A sweeter secret hides behind his fame , And Love steals shyly through the loud acclaim , To murmur a " God bless you ...
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... Browning . February 9th . THOUGH inland far we be , Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither . FOLLOW with reverent steps the great example Of Him whose holy work was doing good ; So shall the wide earth seem ...
... Browning . February 9th . THOUGH inland far we be , Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither . FOLLOW with reverent steps the great example Of Him whose holy work was doing good ; So shall the wide earth seem ...
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Adelaide Alfred Austin angels April August beauty bless blest breathe bright Bryan Charles Waller Christina Rossetti dark dear December doth dream E. B. Browning E. H. Plumptre earth Edmund Spenser Edmund Waller eyes face fair faith fear February flowers George Eliot George Mac Donald Gerald Massey glorious golden grace Hamilton King hand happy hath heart Heaven hope January Jean Ingelow Joanna Baillie John Moultrie July June land life's light live Longfellow look Lowell maiden March never night noble November o'er October Philip James Bailey Procter Robert Browning Robert Buchanan rose Selkirk September Shakespeare Sheridan Knowles shine sigh sing smile soft song sorrow soul spirit Spring star sweet Sydney Dobell tears Tennyson thee Theodore Martin thine things thou thought toil true truth voice W. M. W. Call weary Whittier William Allingham William Morris wind words Wordsworth youth
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Page 98 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 116 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 106 - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Page 51 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 79 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 19 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 120 - BID me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free, As in the whole world thou can'st find, That heart I'll give to thee. Bid that heart stay, and it will stay, To honour thy decree; Or bid it languish quite away, And 't shall do so for thee.
Page 49 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 24 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own; Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes, Then will pure light around thy path be shed, And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone.
Page 116 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.