The Modern Poetical Speaker; Or, a Collection of Pieces Adapted for Recitation Extracted from the Poets of the Nineteenth Century |
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... singing loud ; And the first white butterfly In the sun goes flitting by . Little maiden , look around thee ! Green and flowery fields surround thee ; Every little stream is bright ; All the orchard trees are white ; And each small and ...
... singing loud ; And the first white butterfly In the sun goes flitting by . Little maiden , look around thee ! Green and flowery fields surround thee ; Every little stream is bright ; All the orchard trees are white ; And each small and ...
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... sing . Instruct me , then , to lift my heart To Thee - in praise and prayer ; And love and gratitude impart For every good I share . For all the gifts thy bounty sends , For which so many pine ; For food and clothing , home and friends ...
... sing . Instruct me , then , to lift my heart To Thee - in praise and prayer ; And love and gratitude impart For every good I share . For all the gifts thy bounty sends , For which so many pine ; For food and clothing , home and friends ...
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... of pleasure , strike thy lyre , Of broken Sabbaths sing the charms , Ours be the prophet's car of fire , That bears us to a Father's arms . CUNNINGHAM . A FATHER'S PRAYER . WHILE to my God with spirit THE MODERN SPEAKER . 9.
... of pleasure , strike thy lyre , Of broken Sabbaths sing the charms , Ours be the prophet's car of fire , That bears us to a Father's arms . CUNNINGHAM . A FATHER'S PRAYER . WHILE to my God with spirit THE MODERN SPEAKER . 9.
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... sing without voice , without speaking confute ; I'm English , I'm German , I'm French , and I'm Dutch ; Some love me too fondly , some slight me too much ; I often die soon , though I sometimes live ages , And no monarch alive has so ...
... sing without voice , without speaking confute ; I'm English , I'm German , I'm French , and I'm Dutch ; Some love me too fondly , some slight me too much ; I often die soon , though I sometimes live ages , And no monarch alive has so ...
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... wings , Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings . Live so , my love , that when death shall come , Swan - like and sweet it may waft thee home . DOANE THE DAISY . NOT worlds on worlds , in phalanx 24 THE MODERN SPEAKER .
... wings , Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings . Live so , my love , that when death shall come , Swan - like and sweet it may waft thee home . DOANE THE DAISY . NOT worlds on worlds , in phalanx 24 THE MODERN SPEAKER .
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AUBREY DE VERE BARRY CORNWALL beauty beneath bird bloom blossoms blue Boabdil breast breath breeze bright brow CAROLINE FRY child clouds Clusium dark dead dear death deep delight earth Edition ev'ry fair fear flowers friends Gelert gentle gleam gloom glorious glory glow grave green grief hand hast hath hear heart heaven Henry of Luxembourg hill hope horned owl hour king land Lars Porsena light lone look look'd Lord lov'd morn mother's mountain night o'er pale pass'd Pompeii Populonia prayer pride rest rill rock Rome rose round seem'd shade shine shore sigh silent sing sleep smile snow song sorrow soul sound spirit spring star stood storm stranger's heart stream sweet tears thee thine Thou art thought Tiber tree turn'd Twas Venice voice waves weep wild wind wing youth
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