My Three Jewels: And Other PoemsH.S. Crocker & Company, 1887 - 94 pages |
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angels baby beauty birthday blessed blossom boys breast bright brighter cherub child clouds Cradle crown dark darling dawn dead dear death doth earth ev'ry eyes faded fair faith favor the brave FEBRUARY 22 fingers FLORAL FORTUNE-TELLER flowers flown Fortune will favor friends gather Genoa gift give golden Hamlet hand happy happy day heaven Henry VI Henry VIII hope hour Julius Cæsar kiss knee life's light lips Lisping LITTLE FEET lonely memory Monterey mother MOTHER'S BOYS MOTHER'S GIFT mother's pride ne'er nest never a heart night o'er pain pleasure pride prize REESE LIBRARY roses secret prayer SHAKESPEARE'S ADVICE shine silence silver lining skies smile soon sorrow soul sweet tears thee to sleep There's never things thou thought Three Jewels tired to-day to-morrow to-night treasure truth UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA voice waiting weary weep Woods and cornfields youth Zuider Zee
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Page 89 - LAERTES head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, Bear't, that th
Page 91 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Page 91 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 43 - Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; — Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!
Page 69 - They are only one times one. 0 moon! in the night I have seen you sailing And shining so round and low; You were bright! ah bright! but your light is failing — You are nothing now but a bow. You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven That God has hidden your face? 1 hope if you have you will soon be forgiven, And shine again in your place.
Page 82 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Page 93 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 36 - A little elbow leans upon your knee, Your tired knee that has so much to bear; A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled hair. Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch Of warm, moist fingers, folding yours so tight; You do not prize this blessing overmuch, You almost are too tired to pray to-night. But it is blessedness! A year ago I did not see it as I do to-day, We are so dull and thankless; and too slow To catch the sunshine till it slips away. And now it seems...
Page 38 - Where did you get those arms and hands? Love made itself into hooks and bands. Feet, whence did you come, you darling things? From the same box as the cherubs' wings. How did they all just come to be you ? God thought about me, and so I grew. But how did you come to us, you dear ? God thought about you, and so I am here.
Page 94 - O gentlemen, the time of life is short ! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.