Sunshine in Life: Poems for the King's DaughtersPutnam, 1891 - 405 pages |
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... G. Saxe 235 William E. Channing 237 Harriet W. Sewall 238 Unknown 239 James R. Lowell 240 James R. Lowell 242 James R. Lowell 246 Samuel Longfellow 247 Hast Thou Within a Care So Something New for Easter xii Contents.
... G. Saxe 235 William E. Channing 237 Harriet W. Sewall 238 Unknown 239 James R. Lowell 240 James R. Lowell 242 James R. Lowell 246 Samuel Longfellow 247 Hast Thou Within a Care So Something New for Easter xii Contents.
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Poems for the King's Daughters. Hast Thou Within a Care So Something New for Easter ! . E. Bedell Benjamin 281 Abide with Us : For It Is toward Evening . From " The Ordeal by Fire . " " Father. Poems Unwritten . Gradatim . The Hymn ...
Poems for the King's Daughters. Hast Thou Within a Care So Something New for Easter ! . E. Bedell Benjamin 281 Abide with Us : For It Is toward Evening . From " The Ordeal by Fire . " " Father. Poems Unwritten . Gradatim . The Hymn ...
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... hast far surpassed them all , Though many daughters thriving are ! " Deceitful favor quickly wears , And beauty suddenly decays ; But , if the Lord she truly fears , That woman well deserveth praise , The fruit her handiwork obtains ...
... hast far surpassed them all , Though many daughters thriving are ! " Deceitful favor quickly wears , And beauty suddenly decays ; But , if the Lord she truly fears , That woman well deserveth praise , The fruit her handiwork obtains ...
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... Hast thou a star to guide thy path , Or mark the rolling year ? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers , And hear the sound of music sweet From birds among the bowers . The school - boy , wandering through the wood ...
... Hast thou a star to guide thy path , Or mark the rolling year ? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers , And hear the sound of music sweet From birds among the bowers . The school - boy , wandering through the wood ...
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... hast left them to their own . But present still , though now unseen , When brightly shines the prosperous day , Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen , To temper the deceitful ray , And O , when stoops on Judah's path In shade and storm ...
... hast left them to their own . But present still , though now unseen , When brightly shines the prosperous day , Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen , To temper the deceitful ray , And O , when stoops on Judah's path In shade and storm ...
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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.