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How soon by his the glad discovery shows ! As to her looks she lifts the lovely boy , What answering lips of sympathy and joy ! He walks , he speaks . In many a broken word , His wants , his wishes , and his griefs are heard ...
How soon by his the glad discovery shows ! As to her looks she lifts the lovely boy , What answering lips of sympathy and joy ! He walks , he speaks . In many a broken word , His wants , his wishes , and his griefs are heard ...
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Page 124 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
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Page 136 - TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 109 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away ! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be ! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG.
Page 132 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now ; To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, — How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 83 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother...
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| Title | Easy Poetry: a First Book of Selected Poems for Schools and Families Dr. Cornwell's educational series |
| Author | James Cornwell |
| Editor | James Cornwell |
| Published | 1870 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 144 pages |
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