Sunshine in Life: Poems for the King's DaughtersPutnam, 1891 - 405 pages |
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... soft and soul - like sounds ! And they too have a voice , yon piles of snow , And in their perilous fall shall thunder , God ! Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost ! Ye Poems for The king's Daughters 57 5555555.
... soft and soul - like sounds ! And they too have a voice , yon piles of snow , And in their perilous fall shall thunder , God ! Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost ! Ye Poems for The king's Daughters 57 5555555.
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... soft , so radiant , Lord ! are Thine . When night , with wings of starry gloom , O'ershadows all the earth and skies , Like some dark , beauteous bird , whose plume Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes , — That sacred gloom , those fires ...
... soft , so radiant , Lord ! are Thine . When night , with wings of starry gloom , O'ershadows all the earth and skies , Like some dark , beauteous bird , whose plume Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes , — That sacred gloom , those fires ...
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... soft heart sings In unison with ours , breeding its future wings . ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL . Abou Ben Adhem ( may his tribe increase ! ) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace , And saw within the moonlight in his room , Making ...
... soft heart sings In unison with ours , breeding its future wings . ABOU BEN ADHEM AND THE ANGEL . Abou Ben Adhem ( may his tribe increase ! ) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace , And saw within the moonlight in his room , Making ...
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... ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar , but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved , That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved . It is the hush of night , and all between 74 Sunshine in Lifc Lord Byron.
... ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar , but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved , That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved . It is the hush of night , and all between 74 Sunshine in Lifc Lord Byron.
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... soft dews of kindly sleep My wearied eyelids gently steep , Be my last thought , how sweet to rest Forever on my Saviour's breast . Abide with me from morn till eve , For without Thee I cannot live : Abide with me when night is nigh ...
... soft dews of kindly sleep My wearied eyelids gently steep , Be my last thought , how sweet to rest Forever on my Saviour's breast . Abide with me from morn till eve , For without Thee I cannot live : Abide with me when night is nigh ...
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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.