A Year of Beautiful ThoughtsT.Y. Crowell, 1902 - 402 pages |
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... said , abashed , and meekly , — " You know , " he said , " in everything 44 Why , so do we ! " they cried , " we bring Him all our troubles weekly ! " She turned her little head aside , — A moment 12 A Year of Beautiful Thoughts .
... said , abashed , and meekly , — " You know , " he said , " in everything 44 Why , so do we ! " they cried , " we bring Him all our troubles weekly ! " She turned her little head aside , — A moment 12 A Year of Beautiful Thoughts .
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She turned her little head aside , — A moment let them wrangle , - " Ah , but , " she softly then replied , " I go and get the knot untied At the first little tangle ! " ' Oh , little children , -weavers all ! Our broidery we spangle ...
She turned her little head aside , — A moment let them wrangle , - " Ah , but , " she softly then replied , " I go and get the knot untied At the first little tangle ! " ' Oh , little children , -weavers all ! Our broidery we spangle ...
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... heads they raise To the sunny , sunny skies . When the cruel north winds sigh , When ' tis cold with wind and rain , Do the birdies homeward fly Only to go back again ? No , they wait for spring to come , - Wait for gladsome sun and ...
... heads they raise To the sunny , sunny skies . When the cruel north winds sigh , When ' tis cold with wind and rain , Do the birdies homeward fly Only to go back again ? No , they wait for spring to come , - Wait for gladsome sun and ...
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... head ; He must have something more heav'nly instead . What shall we wrap the baby in ? Nothing that fingers have woven will do ; Looms of the heart weave love ever anew ; Love , only love , is the right thread to spin ; Love , we must ...
... head ; He must have something more heav'nly instead . What shall we wrap the baby in ? Nothing that fingers have woven will do ; Looms of the heart weave love ever anew ; Love , only love , is the right thread to spin ; Love , we must ...
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... head , And all will be joyful to see me . Then from my heart will young petals diverge , As rays of the sun from their focus ; I , from the darkness of earth will emerge , - A happy and beautiful crocus . Gayly arrayed in my yellow and ...
... head , And all will be joyful to see me . Then from my heart will young petals diverge , As rays of the sun from their focus ; I , from the darkness of earth will emerge , - A happy and beautiful crocus . Gayly arrayed in my yellow and ...
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angels beautiful bless blossoms blue bright bright eyes brook buds CELIA THAXTER cheer Christ clouds dark DEAN STANLEY deeds earth ELIZABETH CHARLES eyes fair Father flowers FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL gentle give glad God's good-morning good-night grass green grow hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven HENRY WARD BEECHER Jesus JOHN RUSKIN keep kind leaves light lilies little birds little child little children little girl live look Lord LUCY LARCOM LUCY WHEELOCK mamma MARY MAPES DODGE morning mother nest never night o'er pleasant praise pray prayer pure rain ROBERT BIRD robin seeds shine sing sleep smile snow soft song soul speak spring stars summer sunbeam sunshine SUSAN COOLIDGE sweet tell tender thank thee There's thine things thought tiny to-day tree unto violets voice wait warm watch weary wind wings winter word WORTHINGTON HOOKER
Popular passages
Page 343 - 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 23 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 264 - What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Page 85 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 30 - He giveth snow like wool : He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth His ice like morsels : Who can stand before His cold? He sendeth out His word, and melteth them : He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Page 96 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 311 - When hastening fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam. But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way.
Page 289 - And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
Page 342 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 180 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without thee I dare not die.