Illustrated Library of Favorite Song: Based Upon Folk-songs, and Comprising Songs of the Heart, Songs of Home, Songs of Life, and Songs of Nature |
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... bringing together the popu- lar poems of the language , embracing not only those which are purely popular , but a large number of those considered classical and popular at the same time . Tennyson's " Bugle Song , " Stoddard's " It ...
... bringing together the popu- lar poems of the language , embracing not only those which are purely popular , but a large number of those considered classical and popular at the same time . Tennyson's " Bugle Song , " Stoddard's " It ...
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... brings him ben ; A strappan youth ; he takes the mother's eye ; Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks of horses , pleughs , and kye . The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi ' joy , But blate an ' laithfu ...
... brings him ben ; A strappan youth ; he takes the mother's eye ; Blythe Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks of horses , pleughs , and kye . The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi ' joy , But blate an ' laithfu ...
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... brings forth in complimental mood , To grace the lad , her weel - hain'd kebbuck , fell , An ' aft he's prest , an ' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal wifie , garrulous , will tell , How ' twas a towmond auld , sin ' lint was i ' the ...
... brings forth in complimental mood , To grace the lad , her weel - hain'd kebbuck , fell , An ' aft he's prest , an ' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal wifie , garrulous , will tell , How ' twas a towmond auld , sin ' lint was i ' the ...
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... brings our friends up from the under - world ; Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge : So sad , so fresh , the days that are no more . Ah ! sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The ...
... brings our friends up from the under - world ; Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge : So sad , so fresh , the days that are no more . Ah ! sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The ...
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... brings to me ! She tarries long : but lo , a whisper Beyond the open door ! And , gliding through the quiet sunshine , A shadow on the floor ! Ah ! ' tis the whispering pine that calls me , The vine whose shadow strays ; And my patient ...
... brings to me ! She tarries long : but lo , a whisper Beyond the open door ! And , gliding through the quiet sunshine , A shadow on the floor ! Ah ! ' tis the whispering pine that calls me , The vine whose shadow strays ; And my patient ...
Common terms and phrases
ALFRED TENNYSON angels Annabel Lee beautiful bells beneath bird blessed blow Bobbett bonnie bosom boys breast breath bright brow cheek child CHRISTINA G cold dark dead dear death deep door doth dream earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes face fair fear feet flowers frae grace grave gray green grief hair hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW king kiss land lassie light lips look lover maiden Mary MAUD MULLER moon morning mother ne'er never Nevermore night o'er rest RICHARD HENRY STODDARD river ROBERT HERRICK rose round sail SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE shine sigh silent sing SIR PATRICK SPENS sleep smile snow SONG sorrow soul stars summer sweet tears tell thee There's thine thought tide top tree Twas voice weary weel weep wild wind wings youth
Popular passages
Page 273 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 665 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never— nevermore.
Page 307 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 317 - 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 it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold : Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the Presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" — The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered — "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 28 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme : How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How He who bore in heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay his head : How his first followers and servants sped ; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land ; How he who, lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope "...
Page 564 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures
Page 37 - Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 564 - O men, with sisters dear ! O men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch— stitch— stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt.
Page 375 - While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 60 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.