Golden childhood; or, The child's own annual of pictures, poetry and music [afterw.] Merry sunbeams [afterw.] Golden childhood1877 |
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answered ARTHUR O'LEARY asked baby beautiful birds bless bright called CATCH A SUNBEAM child Christmas Christopher Columbus cocoa cotton cried CRUMBS DAVID LIVINGSTONE dear Dicky dinner disciples Dora Egerton England eyes father fish flowers friends garden gentleman give glad GOLDEN CHILDHOOD GOLDEN HARVEST hand HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN happy heard heart James Watt Jerusalem Jervais kind king lady Lascelles laughed Lenham lesson letter little boy little girl live look Lord Maggie mamma Manvers Mary master MASTER'S TABLE mignonette Miss Toogood mother neighbour never night nurse oh hasten ON'Y A PENNY Osborne House PITCHER PLANT poor little PROVERB STORIES Ricket round ship sister sweet talk tell thing thou thought told TRAP TO CATCH tree turn walk William the Conqueror wonder words young
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Page 138 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 104 - ... cares for us here below. Again I looked at the snow-fall, And thought of the leaden sky That arched o'er our first great sorrow, When that mound was heaped so high. I remembered the gradual patience That fell from that cloud like snow, Flake by flake, healing and hiding The scar that renewed our woe. And again to the child I whispered, " The snow that husheth all, Darling, the merciful Father Alone can make it fall...
Page 103 - I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by. I thought of a mound...
Page 65 - And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; The unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Page 248 - How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run ! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain ; But now the fair...
Page 198 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Page 316 - THE bird that soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her lowly nest ; And she that doth most sweetly sing, Sings in the shade when all things rest : — In lark and nightingale we see, What honour hath humility. When Mary chose the better part, She meekly sat at Jesus...
Page 49 - How pleasant the life of a bird must be, Flitting about in each leafy tree ; In the leafy trees so broad and tall, Like a green and beautiful palace hall, With its airy chambers, light and boon...
Page 174 - And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad : for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost, and is found.
Page 207 - Mid smitten joys and buried loves; When sleep my tearful pillow flies, And dewy morning drinks my sighs, Still to Thy promise, Lord, I flee, That " as my day, my strength shall be.