The Kingdom of Home: Homely Poems for Home LoversArthur Gilman |
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... HAST SWORN BY THY GOD , MY JEANIE .. Allen Cunningham .. 106 143 93 93 187 186 194 III ΙΟΙ 209 117 26 205 93 105 IIO 113 97 98 97 45 219 26 SI 73 218 ENGRAVINGS . F. H. Taylor A mountain Home .. 13. xiv SWEET AUBURN . Oliver Goldsmith ...
... HAST SWORN BY THY GOD , MY JEANIE .. Allen Cunningham .. 106 143 93 93 187 186 194 III ΙΟΙ 209 117 26 205 93 105 IIO 113 97 98 97 45 219 26 SI 73 218 ENGRAVINGS . F. H. Taylor A mountain Home .. 13. xiv SWEET AUBURN . Oliver Goldsmith ...
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... hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell , A little house , whose humble roof Is weather proof ; Under the sparres of which I lie , Both soft and drie : Where thou , my chamber for to ward , Hast set a guard Of harmless thoughts , to watch ...
... hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell , A little house , whose humble roof Is weather proof ; Under the sparres of which I lie , Both soft and drie : Where thou , my chamber for to ward , Hast set a guard Of harmless thoughts , to watch ...
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... Hast stretched in love thy everlasting And , when on earth hath wandered far Into the cold , and deep snow covers hand , And thou hast given earth , and sea , and The walks of our New England lovers , Their sweet secluded evening star ...
... Hast stretched in love thy everlasting And , when on earth hath wandered far Into the cold , and deep snow covers hand , And thou hast given earth , and sea , and The walks of our New England lovers , Their sweet secluded evening star ...
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... hast magic beyond wine , To unlock natures each to each ; The unspoken thought thou canst divine ; Now the kind nymph to Bacchus borne By Morpheus ' daughter , she that seems Gifted upon her natal morn By him with fire , by her with ...
... hast magic beyond wine , To unlock natures each to each ; The unspoken thought thou canst divine ; Now the kind nymph to Bacchus borne By Morpheus ' daughter , she that seems Gifted upon her natal morn By him with fire , by her with ...
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... hast made Thy wondrous love declare , We would come now , our Father dear , To breathe a grateful prayer . In humble trust we come , Believing in thy Son , - Conscious how often we have erred , - Of what we've left undone . Forgive our ...
... hast made Thy wondrous love declare , We would come now , our Father dear , To breathe a grateful prayer . In humble trust we come , Believing in thy Son , - Conscious how often we have erred , - Of what we've left undone . Forgive our ...
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ain fireside angels babe beautiful beloved bird bless bliss bonnie wee breast breath bright brow cheek child childhood chimes dear doth dream earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes face fair Fairer than thee father fear flowers G. F. Barnes GEORGE WITHER Good-night grace grave hand hath hear heart heaven HELEN HUNT JACKSON holy HOMES OF ENGLAND hour household HYMN king kiss Lathbury light lips live look Lord love thee love's Mary merry Miss L. B. Humphrey morn mother never night o'er peace praise pray prayer rest ROBERT BURNS Robin Gray round shining sighs sing sleep smile soft song soul spirit star Sweet baby tears tell tender Thanksgiving turkey There's thine THOMAS HOOD THOMAS KINGO thou hast thought Twas voice Walter Shirlaw watch weary weep wife William Robert Spencer wings woman
Popular passages
Page 57 - An honest man's the noblest work of God.' And certes in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind: What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined!
Page 242 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband our life's taper at the close And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 57 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme,— How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He who, bore in heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head...
Page 19 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 56 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare; .Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And ' Let us worship God !* he says, with solemn air.
Page 218 - GENTLE Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child, Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.
Page 112 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 105 - For woman is not undevelopt man, . But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man...
Page 57 - No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart...
Page 246 - She faded midst Italian flowers — The last of that bright band. And parted thus they rest, who played Beneath the same green tree ; Whose voices mingled as they prayed Around one parent knee...