Sunshine in Life: Poems for the King's DaughtersPutnam, 1891 - 405 pages |
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... Skies . Where Lies the Land ? A Farewell . · Who shall Roll Away the Stone ? My Times Are in Thy Hand .. Self - Dependence . . Charles Mackay 122 Charles Mackay 124 Aubrey T. De Vere 125 Frederic W. Faber 125 Frederic W. Faber 128 ...
... Skies . Where Lies the Land ? A Farewell . · Who shall Roll Away the Stone ? My Times Are in Thy Hand .. Self - Dependence . . Charles Mackay 122 Charles Mackay 124 Aubrey T. De Vere 125 Frederic W. Faber 125 Frederic W. Faber 128 ...
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... skies , — One chorus let all beings raise ! All Nature's incense rise ! Joseph Addison . 1672-1719 . AN ODE . The spacious firmament on high , With all the blue ethereal sky , And spangled heavens , a shining frame , Their great ...
... skies , — One chorus let all beings raise ! All Nature's incense rise ! Joseph Addison . 1672-1719 . AN ODE . The spacious firmament on high , With all the blue ethereal sky , And spangled heavens , a shining frame , Their great ...
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... skies . And thus it is , the purest most deplore Their want of purity . As fold by fold , In duties done , falls from their eyes , the more Of Duty they behold . Were it not wisdom , then , to close our 14 Sunsbine in Life.
... skies . And thus it is , the purest most deplore Their want of purity . As fold by fold , In duties done , falls from their eyes , the more Of Duty they behold . Were it not wisdom , then , to close our 14 Sunsbine in Life.
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... skies , And , climbing not , we fall . Henry Vaughan . 1621-1695 . THE RAINBOW . Still young and fine , but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd , though fresh and new . How bright wert thou , when Shem's admiring eye Thy ...
... skies , And , climbing not , we fall . Henry Vaughan . 1621-1695 . THE RAINBOW . Still young and fine , but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd , though fresh and new . How bright wert thou , when Shem's admiring eye Thy ...
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... skies , He tried each art , reproved each dull delay , Allured to brighter worlds , and led the way . Beside the bed where parting life was laid , And sorrow , guilt , and pain by turns dismayed , The reverend champion stood . At his ...
... skies , He tried each art , reproved each dull delay , Allured to brighter worlds , and led the way . Beside the bed where parting life was laid , And sorrow , guilt , and pain by turns dismayed , The reverend champion stood . At his ...
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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.