Voices for the Speechless: Selections for Schools and Private ReadingHoughton, Mifflin, 1886 - 256 страници |
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... night at the top of his speed , conveyed him to his home , and then , exhausted with the effort , fell down and died . Did ever man evince more devoted affection ? Surely , something of a moral nature is present also in the brute ...
... night at the top of his speed , conveyed him to his home , and then , exhausted with the effort , fell down and died . Did ever man evince more devoted affection ? Surely , something of a moral nature is present also in the brute ...
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... night : nor these alone whose notes Nice - fingered art must emulate in vain ; But coying rooks , and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles , screaming loud , The jay , the pie , and ev'n the boding owl That hails the rising ...
... night : nor these alone whose notes Nice - fingered art must emulate in vain ; But coying rooks , and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles , screaming loud , The jay , the pie , and ev'n the boding owl That hails the rising ...
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... night ; Of woman overtasked and labor - worn ; Of homeless boy , in streets with peril rife ; Of workman , sickened in his airless den ; Of Indian parching for the streams of life ; Of negro slave in bond of cruel men . O Friend of all ...
... night ; Of woman overtasked and labor - worn ; Of homeless boy , in streets with peril rife ; Of workman , sickened in his airless den ; Of Indian parching for the streams of life ; Of negro slave in bond of cruel men . O Friend of all ...
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... end with self ; In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars , And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues . GEORGE ELIOT . THE POOR BEETLE . The sense of death is most 46 VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS .
... end with self ; In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars , And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues . GEORGE ELIOT . THE POOR BEETLE . The sense of death is most 46 VOICES FOR THE SPEECHLESS .
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... Night and of Morning , Strange visions steal down to the slumbers of men , From heaven's bright stronghold once issued a warning , Which baffled all scorning , when brought to my ken . Methought there descended the Saints and the Sages ...
... Night and of Morning , Strange visions steal down to the slumbers of men , From heaven's bright stronghold once issued a warning , Which baffled all scorning , when brought to my ken . Methought there descended the Saints and the Sages ...
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Ahura Mazda animal BARRY CORNWALL beast beautiful blessed Bobolink bough BRET HARTE brown brown thrush CELIA THAXTER CHARLOTTE TURNER SMITH cheer chick-a-de-dee Chipperee Chipperee-ree creatures cried dear Division II dost Draupadi dumb earth eyes faithful fear feet flowers forest Gelert glad gray green H. W. LONGFELLOW happy hath hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha horse human JEAN INGELOW laughing light little bird living look Lord LUCY LARCOM mercy merry morning ne'er nest never night nightingale o'er pain pity poor red deer rest robins round Santa Claus shadow shine silent sing sing-away sleep song sorrow soul sound sparrow spider spring steed summer swallow sweet swift tender thee There's thine thing thrush toil tree voice watch waves wild wind wings wonder wood word WORDSWORTH wren's nest
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Страница 23 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense. Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Страница 82 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; 'Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;
Страница 53 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Страница 119 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine! I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Страница 52 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Страница 24 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Страница 283 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Страница 116 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Страница 83 - — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Страница 78 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet: That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flames with its heat.