Sunshine in Life: Poems for the King's DaughtersPutnam, 1891 - 405 pages |
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... wait . ' HAIL , HOLY LIGHT . From " Paradise Lost , " Book III . Hail , holy Light , offspring of Heaven first - born ! Or of the Eternal coëternal beam , May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light , And never but in unapproached ...
... wait . ' HAIL , HOLY LIGHT . From " Paradise Lost , " Book III . Hail , holy Light , offspring of Heaven first - born ! Or of the Eternal coëternal beam , May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light , And never but in unapproached ...
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... land or sea , How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few , all weak and withered of their force , Wait , on the verge of dark eternity , Like stranded wrecks , the tide returning hoarse , To 50 Sunshine in Life.
... land or sea , How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few , all weak and withered of their force , Wait , on the verge of dark eternity , Like stranded wrecks , the tide returning hoarse , To 50 Sunshine in Life.
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... waiting on their Lord . O happy house ! where man and wife in heart , In faith and hope are one , That neither life nor death can ever part The holy union here begun ; Where both are sharing one salvation , And live before Thee , Lord ...
... waiting on their Lord . O happy house ! where man and wife in heart , In faith and hope are one , That neither life nor death can ever part The holy union here begun ; Where both are sharing one salvation , And live before Thee , Lord ...
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... waits on Thee . Man's weakness waiting upon God Its end can never miss , For men on earth no work can do More angel - like than this . Ride on , ride on triumphantly , Thou glorious will ! ride on ; Faith's pilgrim sons , behind thee ...
... waits on Thee . Man's weakness waiting upon God Its end can never miss , For men on earth no work can do More angel - like than this . Ride on , ride on triumphantly , Thou glorious will ! ride on ; Faith's pilgrim sons , behind thee ...
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... we can conceive Would make a home of earth . But God alone can be a home ; And His sweet vision lies Somewhere in that soft gloom concealed , Beyond the starry skies . So , as if waiting for a voice , Nightly 134 Sunsbine in Life.
... we can conceive Would make a home of earth . But God alone can be a home ; And His sweet vision lies Somewhere in that soft gloom concealed , Beyond the starry skies . So , as if waiting for a voice , Nightly 134 Sunsbine in Life.
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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.