Rhymes and JinglesCharles Scribner, 1882 - 255 pages |
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a-tick baby Bessie birdie birds blue bouncing boy brave bright cheek Christmas bells coming cried DADDY LONGLEGS dainty daisies dear dingle doggie dolly eyes face Father is coming-hurrah flowers frog froggy funny GARDEN SONGS glad Gluck Good-morning hair head hear heard heart Hummer hurrah Jack Johnny jumped Kippy kittens lassie laugh LAZY LOU little birdie little boys little daisy little girl little maid LITTLE MINNIE STOWE little Toddlekins little Whimpy little white duck London town look ma'am mamma mammy MARY MAPES DODGE melons merry Miss Gung morning mother music mad naughty never night nose old cat play Pooh poor little pray pretty Pussy quick racket rats rose Saint Nicholas sing snow soft soon Squatt star sunny sweet tell terrible ball thee There's thing tumble Twas What's whisper Willie
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Page 220 - Clasping his hands and hiding his face, Unconsciously yearning for help and grace, The little one now began ; His mother's nod and sanction sweet Had led him close to the dear Lord's feet, And his words like music ran : "Thank you for making this home so nice, The flowers, and...
Page 95 - I lifted my head, And looked at the poor shabby girl with disdain. ' 'Tis not she,' said the angel ; the haughty and vain Are the strangers at church. She is humble and true.
Page 93 - In moving along to make room for a stianger? And wasn't it cool, with the brazenest face, To expect at each hymn pa would find out the place? (If Ben didn't, or Boh, but there wasn't much danger.) With such feelings at heart, and their print on her face, Last Sunday our Bessie hitched out of her " place" To make room for a girl, very shabby and thin, Who had stood in the aisle till mamma asked her in. The poor little thing tried her best not to crowd; And Bessie, forgetting, soon had the mishap To...
Page 38 - Not to be bad in ; A year to live in, To gain and give in; A year for trying, And not for sighing; A year for striving And hearty thriving ; A bright new year. Oh! hold it dear; For God who sendeth He only lendeth.
Page 11 - In the snowing and the blowing, In the cruel sleet, Little flowers begin their growing Far beneath our feet. Softly taps the Spring, and cheerly, " Darlings, are you here ? " Till they answer, " We are nearly, Nearly ready, dear." " Where is Winter, with his snowing ? Tell us, Spring,
Page 216 - he laughed. I saw him give a push, Then gayly scamper away as he spied A face peep over the bush. But what he pushed, or where he went, I could not well make out, On account of the thicket of bending boughs That bordered the place about. " The little villain has stoned a cat, Or hung it upon a limb, And left it to die all alone," I said ; " But I'll play the mischief with him.
Page 12 - Little white feathers, how came ye there ? " We came from the cloud-birds sailing so high, They're shaking their white wings up in the sky.
Page 82 - Good-by, little birdie! Fly to the sky, Singing and singing A merry good-by. Tell all the birdies Flying above, Nell, in the garden, Sends them her love. Tell how I found you, Hurt, in a tree ; Then, when they're wounded, They'll come right to me.
Page 235 - What do leaves say in the storm, Tossed in whispering heaps together ? " We can keep the violets warm Till they wake in fairer weather." What do happy birdies say, Flitting through the gloomy wood ? " We must sing the gloom away — Sun or shadow, God is good.
Page 98 - Now what do you say when you want a drink ? " The kittens waited a moment to think, And then the answer came clear and loud — You ought to have heard how those kittens meow'd! "Very well. 'Tis the same, with a sharper tone, When you want a fish or a bit of bbne. Now what do you say when children are good?