Household VersesGeorge Virtue, 1845 - 240 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 2
... gentle sway ; And thoughts and feelings which around them throng , Gladden domestic duties , day by day ! And when our spirits to their claims wax cold , When in their light of love no more we live , How can we ' mid the nations hope to ...
... gentle sway ; And thoughts and feelings which around them throng , Gladden domestic duties , day by day ! And when our spirits to their claims wax cold , When in their light of love no more we live , How can we ' mid the nations hope to ...
Σελίδα 17
... gentle and benign ; May gratulating thoughts impart , — Such , honoured friend , are justly thine . Where pain and sickness proved their power , Numbers have blessed thy timely skill ; Where this was bootless , -in the hour Of anguish ...
... gentle and benign ; May gratulating thoughts impart , — Such , honoured friend , are justly thine . Where pain and sickness proved their power , Numbers have blessed thy timely skill ; Where this was bootless , -in the hour Of anguish ...
Σελίδα 22
... And hushed is now that gentle voice , Which , more than sky - lark's glee , Oft made their grateful hearts rejoice , Who loved and cherished thee . A REQUIEM FOR A. B. F. But not like flowrets A Requiem for my young Friend, A B.
... And hushed is now that gentle voice , Which , more than sky - lark's glee , Oft made their grateful hearts rejoice , Who loved and cherished thee . A REQUIEM FOR A. B. F. But not like flowrets A Requiem for my young Friend, A B.
Σελίδα 35
... gentle showers , On a bright day looks beautiful , though bare . My whole is fraught with dreams of long , light days , By Summer loiterers passed in idlesse sweet , What time they sought from business a retreat , And on the landscape ...
... gentle showers , On a bright day looks beautiful , though bare . My whole is fraught with dreams of long , light days , By Summer loiterers passed in idlesse sweet , What time they sought from business a retreat , And on the landscape ...
Σελίδα 55
... hellish ways , He shall glorify His name ! " It is finished ! " From the tree Where the Lord of life hath died , His attendant mourners , see , Gently lower The Crucified ! 55 55 56 THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS . With a sister's.
... hellish ways , He shall glorify His name ! " It is finished ! " From the tree Where the Lord of life hath died , His attendant mourners , see , Gently lower The Crucified ! 55 55 56 THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS . With a sister's.
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AMWELL angel-wings aught Bard beauty birth BIRTH-DAY blend blessing blest bliss boon breath bright brighter by-gone Catalogue of Publications charm childhood's dark dream dwell E'en earth EGYPT faith fame fancy FARNHAM CASTLE fear feel flowers FRAMLINGHAM CASTLE gentle give Glad songs gloom glorious glory gone grace grateful grief hallowed hath heart heaven heavenly HELMINGHAM HALL holier holy homage honoured hope hopes and fears household humble idlesse immortal impart JOHN BUNYAN LEISTON ABBEY life's light lingering live Lord loveliness Midian mourn Muse Nature's NILE o'er octavo peace POOL OF BETHESDA PORTRAIT praise prayer pure ROBINSON CRUSOE round sad yellow-hammer scene shine silent smile song SONNET sorrow soul spell spirits STANZAS STRANGER'S MEMORIAL stream sublime sweet sweetest tears thee thine thou hast thought thrall trod truth unto VERSES Virtue's Catalogue win my love word worth yore
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Σελίδα 143 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Σελίδα 93 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Σελίδα 49 - And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
Σελίδα 125 - The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Σελίδα 228 - The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But, not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky : Spirits from bondage thus set free Vanish amidst immensity, Where human thought, like human sight, Fails to pursue their trackless flight.
Σελίδα 51 - Not to the last \ Thy word hath said, Could we but read aright, "Poor pilgrim, lift in hope thy head, At eve it shall be light!
Σελίδα 224 - On its bosom bearing thee. What is Life ? A bubble floating On that silent, rapid stream ; Few, too few, its progress noting, Till it bursts, and ends the dream. What is Death, asunder rending Every tie we love so well ? But the gate to life unending, Joy, in heaven ! or woe, in hell...
Σελίδα 164 - Whose humorous vein; strong sense, and simple style, May teach the .gayest, make the gravest smile ; Witty, and well...
Σελίδα 198 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand ! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Σελίδα 236 - To write a book of household song, Without one verse to thee, Whom I have known and loved so long, Were all unworthy me. Have I not seen thy needle plied With as much ready glee, As if it were thy greatest pride A sempstress famed to be ! Have I not ate pies...