Heart Throbs: In Prose and VerseGrosset & Dunlap, 1905 - 435 pages |
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... face and the friendly lips . " For Thine is the kingdom , the power , and the glory , forever . Amen . " " Amen , " whispered the surgeons . James Creelman , in " On the Great Highway . " HOME , SWEET HOME . ' Mid pleasures and palaces ...
... face and the friendly lips . " For Thine is the kingdom , the power , and the glory , forever . Amen . " " Amen , " whispered the surgeons . James Creelman , in " On the Great Highway . " HOME , SWEET HOME . ' Mid pleasures and palaces ...
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... faces issues ; he who never shirks ; Who waits and watches , and who always works . WHO NE'ER HAS SUFFERED . Who ne'er has suffered , he has lived but half . Who never failed , he never strove or sought . Who never wept is stranger to a ...
... faces issues ; he who never shirks ; Who waits and watches , and who always works . WHO NE'ER HAS SUFFERED . Who ne'er has suffered , he has lived but half . Who never failed , he never strove or sought . Who never wept is stranger to a ...
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... face . It occurred during the trial of an important suit involving certain franchise rights of the Pennsylvania railroad in Philadelphia . Mr. Brewster was then the chief counsel of the Pennsyl- vania company . The trial was a bitterly ...
... face . It occurred during the trial of an important suit involving certain franchise rights of the Pennsylvania railroad in Philadelphia . Mr. Brewster was then the chief counsel of the Pennsyl- vania company . The trial was a bitterly ...
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... face was as black as that man's heart . " The last sentence was spoken in a voice whose rage was that of a lion . It had an electrical effect , and the applause that greeted it was superb , but in an instant turned to the most ...
... face was as black as that man's heart . " The last sentence was spoken in a voice whose rage was that of a lion . It had an electrical effect , and the applause that greeted it was superb , but in an instant turned to the most ...
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... face and flesh like dawn lights up a rose . His startled gaze caught and held the dawn of day in rapturous looks that spoke the dawn of Self , for with the morning gleam out came the greater wonder . It was the mystery of Life . Across ...
... face and flesh like dawn lights up a rose . His startled gaze caught and held the dawn of day in rapturous looks that spoke the dawn of Self , for with the morning gleam out came the greater wonder . It was the mystery of Life . Across ...
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Page 326 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 361 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 126 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At' that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 160 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 327 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Page 11 - I'd be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee ! 3 There let the way appear Steps unto heaven; All that thou sendest me, In mercy given; Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee!
Page 9 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget...
Page 147 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 47 - O Christ, art all I want; More than all in Thee I find: Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind. Just and holy is Thy name; I am all unrighteousness; False and full of sin I am, Thou art full of truth and grace.
Page 297 - Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be?' 'How many? Seven in all,' she said, And wondering looked at me. 'And where are they? I pray you tell.' She answered, 'Seven are we; And two of us at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea. 'Two of us in the church-yard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the church-yard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother.