Heart Throbs in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People and by Them Contributed in the $10,000 Prize Contest Initiated by the National Magazine, 1904-1905Grosset, 1905 - 436 pages |
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... lips of a pure - hearted , sympathetic lady , at a memorial service in honor of my deceased cousin , a girl of eighteen summers , the companion of my boyhood . " Many expressions were too per- sonal , tender and sacred for publication ...
... lips of a pure - hearted , sympathetic lady , at a memorial service in honor of my deceased cousin , a girl of eighteen summers , the companion of my boyhood . " Many expressions were too per- sonal , tender and sacred for publication ...
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... lips of the surgeons moved . " Hallowed be Thy name . Thy kingdom come . Thy will be done- " The sobbing of a nurse disturbed the still air . The President opened his eyes and closed them again . " Thy will be done in Earth as it is in ...
... lips of the surgeons moved . " Hallowed be Thy name . Thy kingdom come . Thy will be done- " The sobbing of a nurse disturbed the still air . The President opened his eyes and closed them again . " Thy will be done in Earth as it is in ...
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... lips to my own , and greeting me with a kiss . Enclosed in the letter was another . From its hiding- place in the pocket of my office coat , I have taken it out this morning to read it over . I often do so , for it brings to me so many ...
... lips to my own , and greeting me with a kiss . Enclosed in the letter was another . From its hiding- place in the pocket of my office coat , I have taken it out this morning to read it over . I often do so , for it brings to me so many ...
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... lips have ever spoken ; A little word that breaks the chain of years ; Its utterance must ever bring emotion , The memories it crystals cannot die , ' Tis known in every land , on every ocean- ' Tis called " Good - bye . ” O CAPTAIN ...
... lips have ever spoken ; A little word that breaks the chain of years ; Its utterance must ever bring emotion , The memories it crystals cannot die , ' Tis known in every land , on every ocean- ' Tis called " Good - bye . ” O CAPTAIN ...
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... lips are pale and still , My father does not feel my arm , he has no pulse nor will , The ship is anchor'd safe and sound , its voyage closed and done , From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won ; Exult , O shores , and ...
... lips are pale and still , My father does not feel my arm , he has no pulse nor will , The ship is anchor'd safe and sound , its voyage closed and done , From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won ; Exult , O shores , and ...
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Page 428 - Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred...
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 176 - And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 7 - Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget...
Page 12 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! Our fathers...
Page 32 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 36 - You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Page 23 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 362 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There, ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 38 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God : All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His blood.