| 1861 - 356 pages
...Religion's holy hope kindles a joy That makes old age look lovely. SOUTHEY. O what a glory doth tliis world put on For him who, with a fervent heart, goes...looks On duties well performed and days well spent I For him the wind, aye, and the yellow leaves, Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...blue-bird sings; And merrily, with ofi-ropeated stroke, Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy flail. Oh, what a glory doth this world put on for him who. with a fervent heart, goes forth TJnder the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well performed, and days well spent ! For him... | |
| Testimonies, Author of Sunday evenings at home - 1861 - 236 pages
...doth the world put on For him, who with a grateful heart goes forth ; Under the bright and radiant sky, and looks On duties well performed, and days well spent ; For him, the winds, and verdant trembling leaves, Shall have a voice, and give him eloquence in prayer." No written... | |
| Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...blue-bird singa ; And merrily, with oft-repeated stroke, Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy flail. O what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with...bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well perform'd, and days well spent ! For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves, Shall have a voice, and... | |
| 1862 - 242 pages
...spire, All the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.' And: " O, what a glory does this world put on For him who, with a fervent heart...Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well-performed and days well spent." Gertrude was honored too, for from one of her letters Mary had... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 pages
...blue-bird sings, And merrily, with oft-repeated stroke, Sounds from (he threshing-floor the busy flail. O what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with...yellow leaves Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teaching! He shall so hear the solemn hymn, that Death Has lifted up for all, that he shall go To his... | |
| 1864 - 378 pages
...have entered into the heart ot man the things that God hath prepared for those that love Him." " O what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with...looks On duties well performed, and days well spent !" Does she pot beseem the fitting workmanship of Him who gave as his commandment, " That ye love one... | |
| Life-lights - 1864 - 348 pages
...blue-bird sings ; And merrily, with oft-repeated stroke, Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy flail. Oh what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with...Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well-perform' d, and days well-spent ! For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves, Shall have a voice,... | |
| 1871 - 970 pages
...fragments " of Nature's speech that the poet Longfellow had beeu listening when he wrote : — "Oh ! what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with...performed, and days well spent ! For him the wind, aye, and the yellow leaves. Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings. He shall so hear the... | |
| Dennis de Berdt Hovell - 1866 - 138 pages
...word, not according to our knowledge, but in proportion to its practical application to our work. Oh ! what a glory doth this world put on, For him who with...heart goes forth Under the bright and glorious sky, to run His course thro' rugged paths and toilsome ways, And in the autumn of his life look back, On... | |
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