Sunshine in Life: Poems for the King's DaughtersPutnam, 1891 - 405 pages |
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... faith and action as will better qualify the reader to meet the cares of every - day life . And we confidently commend this volume to all the members of the Order , as a con- stant companion for daily thought and suggestion while ...
... faith and action as will better qualify the reader to meet the cares of every - day life . And we confidently commend this volume to all the members of the Order , as a con- stant companion for daily thought and suggestion while ...
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... faith is dim ; But ' t is enough that Christ knows all , And I shall be with Him . Thomas Ellwood . 1639-1713 . PRAYER . Unto the glory of Thy Holy Name , Eternal God ! whom I both love and fear , Here bear I witness that I never came ...
... faith is dim ; But ' t is enough that Christ knows all , And I shall be with Him . Thomas Ellwood . 1639-1713 . PRAYER . Unto the glory of Thy Holy Name , Eternal God ! whom I both love and fear , Here bear I witness that I never came ...
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... faith , in Thee to trust , Thou God , most just ! Remit all our offences , we entreat , Most good ! most great ! Grant that our willing , though unworthy , quest May , through Thy grace , admit us ' mongst the blest . Philip Doddridge ...
... faith , in Thee to trust , Thou God , most just ! Remit all our offences , we entreat , Most good ! most great ! Grant that our willing , though unworthy , quest May , through Thy grace , admit us ' mongst the blest . Philip Doddridge ...
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... faith's trans- cendent dower , We feel that we are greater than we know . Sir Walter Scott . 1771-1832 . REBECCA'S HYMN . When Israel , of the Lord beloved , Out from the land of bondage came , Her fathers ' God before her moved , An ...
... faith's trans- cendent dower , We feel that we are greater than we know . Sir Walter Scott . 1771-1832 . REBECCA'S HYMN . When Israel , of the Lord beloved , Out from the land of bondage came , Her fathers ' God before her moved , An ...
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... faith's foreseeing eye Thy golden gates appear ! Ah ! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love , The bright inheritance of saints , Jerusalem above ! Yet clouds will intervene , And all my prospect flies ; Like Noah's dove , I ...
... faith's foreseeing eye Thy golden gates appear ! Ah ! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love , The bright inheritance of saints , Jerusalem above ! Yet clouds will intervene , And all my prospect flies ; Like Noah's dove , I ...
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Sunshine in Life (Poems for the King's Daughters) (Classic Reprint) Florence P. Lee No preview available - 2015 |
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Alcamenes beauty bird blessed bloom blue breath Bregenz bright Burgomaster calm Cecil Frances Alexander cheer child chimes cloud crown dark dear deep doth dream earth eyes fair Father fear feet flowers give glad glorious glory God's gold golden grace Hand-in-hand with angels happy hath hear heart heaven holy hope hour Jesus King Lake Constance land life's light live look Lord Margaret Elizabeth Sangster mine-a morning never night o'er pain peace praise pray prayer rest round Sabine Baring-Gould sandpiper Sarah Chauncey Woolsey shade shadows shining silent sing Sir Launfal skies sleep smile soft song Songs of praise sorrow soul spirit spring stars stream summer sunshine sweet tears tender Thee thine things Thou art Thou hast thought Three little words throng Thy hand toil tree Tyrol voice wait wandering watch wave weary winds wings word
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Page 93 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free...
Page 57 - And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 44 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay ; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 16 - Lord, it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live; To love and serve Thee is my share, And this Thy grace must give.
Page 186 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 2 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Page 31 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of. earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 60 - When Day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of Even, And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into Heaven — Those hues, that make the Sun's decline So soft, so radiant, LORD ! are Thine.
Page 211 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 309 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.