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Common terms and phrasesangels baby beautiful gates ajar beggar-man blessing blue bobolink breast bright Brixham brown brown thrush Celia Thaxter Chaleur bay child Christina G clouds Curly-head Dandelion dark dear doth earth eyes fairy fall Father feathered and carried feet fimble flowers fur his horrd futherr'd grandmother grass grizzly bear hand hast hear heaven Here's Flud Oirson horrd horrt judgment-seat Kikirikee knocking kookoorookoo laugh leaves leaves of glass light lilies lips little bird Little Blue-eyes little tree live lonesome glen looked Mabel Mary Lamb Morble'ead morning Mortimer Collins mother nest never night O-had-I o'er pray prayer pretty reed-warbler rose shame shore singing sleep smile sorrow soul stars sweet sweetheart Tarred and feathered tear thee thing thought toil Torr'd Twas voice VVER watch whispered William Barnes wind wish women of Marblehead wonder words Popular passagesPage 89 - THE SEA. The Sea ! the Sea ! the open Sea ! The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round ; It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; Or like a cradled creature lies. Page 17 - WHATEVER brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home; Where sisters dwell and brothers meet Quarrels should never come. Birds in their little nests agree ; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. Page 98 - Bacchus round some antique vase, Brief of skirt, with ankles bare, Loose of kerchief and loose of hair, With conch-shells blowing and fish-horns' twang, Over and over the Maenads sang: "Here's Flud Oirson, fur his horrd horrt, Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o Page 71 - Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow fill'd? Page 100 - Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, " Grod has touched him ! why should we ? " Said an old wife mourning her only son, " Cut the rogue's tether and let him run! Page 102 - KING FRANCIS was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, And one day, as his lions fought, sat looking on the court... Page 79 - O brother man ! fold to thy heart thy brother ; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there ; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer. Page 2 - Where did you get your eyes so blue ? Out of the sky as I came through. Page 103 - De Lorge's love o'erheard the King, a beauteous lively dame, With smiling lips and sharp bright eyes, which always... Page 100 - Sweetly along the Salem road Bloom of orchard and lilac showed. Little the wicked skipper knew Of the fields so green and the sky so blue. Riding there in his sorry trim, Like an Indian idol glum and grim, Scarcely he seemed the sound to hear Of voices shouting, far and near... Bibliographic information |