Looking Toward Sunset: From Sources Old and New, Original and SelectedTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 455 páginas |
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angel asked auld lang syne Aunty beautiful BERNARD PALISSY blessings bright brother called cheerful child cloud Constable Montmorenci Cottagers of Glenburnie dear death Dubois Duke of Würtemberg earth eyes face father feel flowers Gottreich grandmother gray habits hair hand happy Harrington Harry Blake Hatty hear heard heart heaven hour Huguenots Hyppolite invisible touch Italian cup Jenny John Anderson kindly labors lady laugh learned leave light lived Livy look Marcelline marriage married mind Miss Matey morning mother Nature neighbors never night old age palimpsest passed pleasant pleasure poor pretty replied rich baker Robin roses round seemed sing smile soul spirit summer sunshine sweet tears tell thee things thou thought tion told traveller trees Uncle Tommy vellum voice walk wife WILLIAM WORDSWORTH window winter woman women young youth
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Página 60 - And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Página 128 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...
Página 184 - HAS there any old fellow got mixed with the boys ? If there has, take him out, without making a noise.
Página 205 - He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.* Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace -)- of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Página 360 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful.
Página 100 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. 'With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free...
Página 277 - Enough that blessings undeserved Have marked my erring track ; That wheresoe'er my feet have swerved His chastening turned me back — That more and more a Providence Of love is understood, Making the springs of time and sense, Sweet with eternal good — That death seems but a covered way Which opens into light, Wherein no blinded child can stray Beyond the Father's sight...
Página 35 - T'HE Lord my shepherd is; *- I shall be well supplied : Since He is mine, and I am His, What can I want beside? 2 He leads me to the place * Where heavenly pasture grows, Where living waters gently pass, And full salvation flows. 3 If e'er I go astray, He doth my soul reclaim ; And guides me in His own right way, For His most holy name. 4 While He affords His aid, I cannot yield to fear...
Página 106 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: 'Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee.' 'Come, wander with me,' she said, 'Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.' And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Página 99 - We lay beneath a spreading oak, Beside a mossy seat; And from the turf a fountain broke, And gurgled at our feet. "Now, Matthew!