Young People's Speaker: Being a Choice Treasury of New and Popular Recitations, Readings, Dialogues, Original and Adapted, Comedies, Tableaux ... Including Descriptive, Dramatic, Pathetic, Humorous Recitals ... for Schools, Lodges, Public Entertainments ...Henry Davenport Northrop National Publishing Company, 1900 - 365 pages |
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Page 179 - The king stood still Till the last echo died ; then, throwing off The sackcloth from his brow, and laying back The pall from the still features of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of woe...
Page 137 - Into these glassy eyes put light — be still ! keep down thine ire, Bid these white lips a blessing speak — this earth is not my sire ! Give me back him for whom I strove, for whom my blood was shed,— Thou canst not ? — and a king ! — his dust be mountains on thy head...
Page 136 - A plume waved o'er the noble brow, — the brow was fixed and white; He met, at last, his father's eyes, — but in them was no sight! Up from the ground he sprang and gazed; but who could paint that gaze? They...
Page 68 - But an evil day came upon us. Your forefathers crossed the great waters, and landed on this island. Their numbers were small. They found friends and not enemies. They told us they had fled from their own country for fear of wicked men, and had come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat.
Page 68 - Brother! You say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it?
Page 133 - And in her fifteenth year became a bride, Marrying an only son, Francesco Doria, Her playmate from her birth, and her first love.
Page 311 - He shall preserve order and decorum; may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose, and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the House by any two members; on which appeal no member shall speak more than once, unless by leave of the House.
Page 164 - LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. OH ! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove ; When my dream of life from morn till night Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream : No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Page 23 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 133 - That mouldering chest was noticed ; and 'twas said, By one as young, as thoughtless as Ginevra, 'Why not remove it from its lurking-place?' 'Twas done as soon as said ; but on the way It burst, it fell ; and lo ! a skeleton, With here and there a pearl, an emerald- stone, A golden clasp, clasping a shred of gold.