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... blessings on my name . These are the Wants of mortal Man , - I cannot want them long , For life itself is but a span , And earthly bliss - a song . My last great Want - absorbing all Is , when beneath the sod , And summoned to my final ...
... blessings on my name . These are the Wants of mortal Man , - I cannot want them long , For life itself is but a span , And earthly bliss - a song . My last great Want - absorbing all Is , when beneath the sod , And summoned to my final ...
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... know That flowers within Are best to win . Dost take my book away Anon to let me play , And let me out To run about ? I grateful bless Thee for recess . Then recess past , alack , I turn me slowly [ 15 ] POETICAL FAVORITES.
... know That flowers within Are best to win . Dost take my book away Anon to let me play , And let me out To run about ? I grateful bless Thee for recess . Then recess past , alack , I turn me slowly [ 15 ] POETICAL FAVORITES.
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... , love or honest gain , Why , then it shall be understood That day is written down as good . " Or if to any one I love A blessing meets them on the way , That will to me a pleasure prove : So it [ 18 ] POETICAL FAVORITES.
... , love or honest gain , Why , then it shall be understood That day is written down as good . " Or if to any one I love A blessing meets them on the way , That will to me a pleasure prove : So it [ 18 ] POETICAL FAVORITES.
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... before me lies , With here and there a thread of black , That like a gloomy shadow flies , A shadow it must be confessed , That often rose in my own breast . And I have found it good to note The blessing [ 19 ] POETICAL FAVORITES.
... before me lies , With here and there a thread of black , That like a gloomy shadow flies , A shadow it must be confessed , That often rose in my own breast . And I have found it good to note The blessing [ 19 ] POETICAL FAVORITES.
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And I have found it good to note The blessing that is mine each day ; For happiness is vainly sought In some dim future far away . Just try my ledger for a year , Then look with grateful wonder back , And you will find , there is no ...
And I have found it good to note The blessing that is mine each day ; For happiness is vainly sought In some dim future far away . Just try my ledger for a year , Then look with grateful wonder back , And you will find , there is no ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON ALICE CARY angels apple-tree auld lang syne beautiful bells Bingen bird blessed blue Blynken Born brave breast breath bright brother brow child dark dead dear death doth dream dying earth eyes face fair fame father flowers forever glad glory gone grave gray hand hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW JOHN JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER kiss Lady land laugh light lips live look Lord morn mother ne'er never Nevermore night o'er old Kentucky home old oaken bucket poems poet Queen rest Rock rose round shine silence sing sleep smile soldier song sorrow soul star-spangled banner stars sweet tears tell thee There's thine THOMAS MOORE thought to-night tree verse VISIT FROM ST voice wave weary weep wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind word wrote young