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... Once or twice she opened her eyes with an effort , and fixed them earnestly again upon the door , through which she expected her father and her mammy would return . Then , wearied out by the day's journey , and the lateness of the night ...
... Once or twice she opened her eyes with an effort , and fixed them earnestly again upon the door , through which she expected her father and her mammy would return . Then , wearied out by the day's journey , and the lateness of the night ...
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... once . I tell you he was , honey ! When I was a little , black gal , jus growed up , tendin ' on Miss Edmonia , your grandma , honey , thar warn't no kind a young man in all our section o ' country was any kind o ' count compared with ...
... once . I tell you he was , honey ! When I was a little , black gal , jus growed up , tendin ' on Miss Edmonia , your grandma , honey , thar warn't no kind a young man in all our section o ' country was any kind o ' count compared with ...
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... once more at his face . Vera ! look up at your poor pa . Look at him , honey . " She forced the child , still clinging to her breast , to raise her face . It was a cruel kindness . She gave one quick glance , then shrieked , and went ...
... once more at his face . Vera ! look up at your poor pa . Look at him , honey . " She forced the child , still clinging to her breast , to raise her face . It was a cruel kindness . She gave one quick glance , then shrieked , and went ...
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... once . Her pa owned a farm down to Laurie's Mill - that way . " " But Nursey dear , " said I , " just tell us what it is to be a flirt . " " To be a flirt , ” said Nursey , in a huff , " is playing off and on with a young man when a ...
... once . Her pa owned a farm down to Laurie's Mill - that way . " " But Nursey dear , " said I , " just tell us what it is to be a flirt . " " To be a flirt , ” said Nursey , in a huff , " is playing off and on with a young man when a ...
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... once to Max and me , " Old Mammy may speak cross , but , oh how much she loves me . " Max and I were astonished to hear her chidden by old Mammy , in a tone in which our own Nurse would never have spoken to her charges . It upset my ...
... once to Max and me , " Old Mammy may speak cross , but , oh how much she loves me . " Max and I were astonished to hear her chidden by old Mammy , in a tone in which our own Nurse would never have spoken to her charges . It upset my ...
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Page 218 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
Page 25 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 223 - FORGET not yet the tried intent Of such a truth as I have meant ; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet ! Forget not yet when first began The weary life ye know, since whan The suit, the service none tell can ; Forget not yet ! Forget not yet the great assays, The cruel wrong, the scornful ways, The painful patience in delays, Forget not yet ! Forget not ! oh ! forget not this, How long ago hath been, and is The mind that never meant amiss, Forget not yet...
Page 280 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 142 - THE STEAMBOAT SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast, in ringing showers, With every wave that swells ; And, burning o'er the midnight deep, In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean...
Page 232 - When at a play to laugh, or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason why; Never to hold her tongue a minute, While all she prates has nothing in it ; Whole hours can with a coxcomb sit, And take his nonsense all for wit ; Her learning mounts to read a song, But half the words pronouncing wrong ; • Has every repartee in store She spoke ten thousand times before...
Page 98 - THERE is a change — and I am poor; Your Love hath been, nor long ago, A Fountain at my fond Heart's door, Whose only business was to flow; And flow it did; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need.
Page 409 - To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? Or, if they be but false alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion!
Page 213 - With thy rude ploughshare, Death, turn up the sod, And spread the furrow for the seed we sow ; This is the field and Acre of our God. This is the place, where human harvests grow ! TO THE RIVER CHARLES.
Page 345 - Nor make our scanty pleasures less By pining at our state : And, even should misfortunes come, I here wha sit, hae met wi...