Hymns and Rhymes for Home and SchoolNichols and Hall, 1875 - 152 pages |
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angels baby beautiful gates ajar birdies blessing blue bobolink bright Brixham brown brown thrush CELIA THaxter Chaleur bay child CHRISTINA G corr'd corrt Curly-head dark dear drop earth eyes fairy fall Father feathered and carried feet flowers fur his horrd futherr'd grandmother grass hand hard heart hear heaven Here's Flud Oirson horrd horrt I-have Indian idol judgment-seat laughing leaves leaves of glass light lilies little bird Little Blue-eyes little tree lonesome glen looked LUCY LARCOM Mabel MARY LAMB Morble'ead morning mother nest never night O-had-I o'er Old Floyd Ireson pray prayer pretty reed-warbler robins rose sails Set the beautiful shame silver cliffs singing sleep smile sorrow soul stars summer sweet sweetheart Tarred and feathered tear thee thing thou canst thought Twas Veery voice WILLIAM BARNES wind wish women of Marblehead wood
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Page 89 - THE SEA. The Sea ! the Sea ! the open Sea ! The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round ; It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; Or like a cradled creature lies.
Page 17 - WHATEVER brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home; Where sisters dwell and brothers meet Quarrels should never come. Birds in their little nests agree ; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
Page 98 - Bacchus round some antique vase, Brief of skirt, with ankles bare, Loose of kerchief and loose of hair, With conch-shells blowing and fish-horns' twang, Over and over the Maenads sang: "Here's Flud Oirson, fur his horrd horrt, Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o
Page 71 - Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow fill'd?
Page 100 - Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, " Grod has touched him ! why should we ? " Said an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut the rogue's tether and let him run!
Page 102 - KING FRANCIS was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, And one day, as his lions fought, sat looking on the court...
Page 79 - O brother man ! fold to thy heart thy brother ; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there ; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.
Page 2 - Where did you get your eyes so blue ? Out of the sky as I came through.
Page 103 - De Lorge's love o'erheard the King, a beauteous lively dame, With smiling lips and sharp bright eyes, which always...
Page 100 - Sweetly along the Salem road Bloom of orchard and lilac showed. Little the wicked skipper knew Of the fields so green and the sky so blue. Riding there in his sorry trim, Like an Indian idol glum and grim, Scarcely he seemed the sound to hear Of voices shouting, far and near...