Home Ballads: A Book for New Englanders. In Three PartsJ. Munroe, 1851 - 238 páginas |
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Home Ballads: A Book for New Englanders, in Three Parts (Classic Reprint) Abby Allin Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alice Brown amid Angels Annie Lee arms BATTLE OF GLENDALE beauty bend the knee beside birds blessing blow Bobolink BOSTON JOURNAL breast breath bright brook brother brow cheek child cold dancing tree dark darling dead death doth e'en earth Earth's children eyes face Father Father dear Father fear feel flowers gaze gentle grave hand happy hath head hear heart and bend Heaven hope hour imperative moods kiss Laura life's Lift the heart light little Ann live look mamma Mary never night o'er once pain Pharoah's daughter play Pompey poor praise pray prayer Providence river remember rose round Santa Claus sing skies sleep smile softly song sorrow soul Spelling-Book spirit strive sunshine sweet tears tell thee there's thine things thou thought told tree trembling warm weary weep whispered words Yankee
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Página 144 - I am almost ready, quoth he, quoth he, And Christmas is almost here ; But one thing more — I must write them a book, And give to each one this year. So ho clapped his specs on his little round nose, And seizing the stump of a pen, He wrote more lines in one little hour, Than you ever could read in ten.
Página 14 - Taunton, in the State of Massachusetts, is called there a Taunton Turkey, half in derision and half, no doubt, for the sake of the alliteration : " Our fisheries o'er the world are famed, The mackerel, shad, and cod ; And Taunton Turkeys are so thick, We sell them by the rod.
Página 25 - We have spanned the world with an iron rail, And the steam-king rules us now ! The old turnpike is a pike no more — Wide open stands the gate...
Página 144 - Filling his pack with toys. He had gathered his nuts and baked his pies, To give to the girls and boys. There were dolls for the girls and whips for the boys, With wheelbarrows, horses, and drays, And bureaus and trunks for Dolly's new clothes; All these in his pack he displays.
Página 148 - But what is your hurry? please tarry a while, Just up in this flowery nook ; Where violets cluster blue as the skies — "
Página 24 - The grass creeps over the flinty path, And the stealthy daisies steal Where once the stage-horse, day by day, Lifted his iron heel. No more the weary stager dreads The toil of the coming morn ; No more the bustling landlord runs At the sound of the echoing horn ; For the dust lies still upon the road, And the bright-eyed children play, Where once the clattering hoof and wheel Rattled along the way. No more do we hear the cracking whip, Or the strong wheels...
Página 23 - Yet nothing is gained to a man by dissent, Then pull away cheerily, work with a will! Pull away cheerily, work with a will, God is the Master urging us on ; Idleness bringeth us trouble and ill, Labor itself is happiness won ! Work with the heart, and work with the brain, Work with the hands, and work with the will; Step after step we conquer the plain, Then pull away cheerily, work with a will!
Página 199 - ... grave-yard, and stood once again by her father's grave. She sat down beside it, and laid her head upon the turf, and wept fast and bitterly. A good angel awoke in her heart, and told her that God was good — very good and kind ; that he would take care of all his creatures ; and even if Pompey should be killed, as her mistress threatened, still God would be always left ; and if she should die, then God would take her soul to heaven, and they would make a grave for her close beside her dear father's....
Página 14 - No matter where his home may be — What flag may be unfurled ! He'll manage, by some cute device, To whittle through the world.
Página 203 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.