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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... things that make us all kin ; those things that endure the classics of our own lives . Send me a clipping , a story , an anecdote , or a selection that has touched your heart . It is in the American homes that I am searching for the ...
... things that make us all kin ; those things that endure the classics of our own lives . Send me a clipping , a story , an anecdote , or a selection that has touched your heart . It is in the American homes that I am searching for the ...
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... Such a blue - eyed , laughing sprite , And puts weariness to flight ; Such as makes the present seem , More than yesterday , a dream Of sweet things ; and so I smile O'er regrets of otherwhile , And she says , and HEART THROBS . 25.
... Such a blue - eyed , laughing sprite , And puts weariness to flight ; Such as makes the present seem , More than yesterday , a dream Of sweet things ; and so I smile O'er regrets of otherwhile , And she says , and HEART THROBS . 25.
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... God ; All the vain things that charm me most . I sacrifice them to His blood . See , from His head , His hands , His feet , Sorrow and love flow mingled down ; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet , Or thorns 38 HEART THROBS .
... God ; All the vain things that charm me most . I sacrifice them to His blood . See , from His head , His hands , His feet , Sorrow and love flow mingled down ; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet , Or thorns 38 HEART THROBS .
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... growl , and the prowlers prowl , and the gee - gaws go it ; Behind the night there is plenty of light , and things are all right and I know it . Anonymous . ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD . The curfew tolls HEART THROBS . 61.
... growl , and the prowlers prowl , and the gee - gaws go it ; Behind the night there is plenty of light , and things are all right and I know it . Anonymous . ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD . The curfew tolls HEART THROBS . 61.
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... thing . " The old man's countenance fell , but he spoke of courage and patience and perseverance . Later in the day he went with his son to the " Free Dispensary , " where the young doctor had an unsalaried position , and where he spent ...
... thing . " The old man's countenance fell , but he spoke of courage and patience and perseverance . Later in the day he went with his son to the " Free Dispensary , " where the young doctor had an unsalaried position , and where he spent ...
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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.