A Terrible Secret: A Novel

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G. W. Carleton & Company, 1874 - 410 páginas
 

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Página 183 - Though Wisdom oft has sought me, I scorn'd the lore she brought me, My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me. Her smile when Beauty granted, I hung with gaze enchanted, Like him the Sprite* Whom maids by night Oft meet in glen that's haunted.
Página 149 - There is but one With whom she has heart to be gay. When will the dancers leave her alone? She is weary of dance and play." Now half to the setting moon are gone, And half to the rising day; Low on the sand and loud on the stone The last wheel echoes away.
Página 176 - She look'd so lovely, as she sway'd The rein with dainty finger-tips, A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.
Página 111 - BREAK, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
Página 32 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee, None named thee but to praise.
Página 409 - ... two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

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