Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian LouisianaScribner's, 1904 - 314 pages |
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Acadian Acadian French Adjieu arms asked Bayou Beausoleil bell blue Bonaven Bonaventure Deschamps calèche Carancro Catou Chaouache chapel CHAPTER Chat-oué chil'run Claude St Claude's College Point Crébiche Creole cried curé dark dawn't dear door drew English ex-governor eyes face father feet French galérie gaze girl glance gone Gran Grande Pointe green guerite hand head heart horse knew Lake Maurepas lifted lips looked Marguerite Maximian Mian miles mother never night once Opelousas pantalettes passed Pierre pirogue Pointe prairie priest replied rose saddle schoolmaster seemed shake side Sidonie silent slowly smile softly Sosthène Sosthène's standing stood stranger swamp Tarbox tears tell Terrebonne Thanase thing thou thought Toutou turned Vermilionville vieille voice walk wedding singers word Yass yonder young Zoséphine
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Page 156 - THOUGHT is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought ; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. We are spirits clad in veils ; Man by man was never seen ; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. Heart to heart was never known ; Mind with mind did never meet ; We are columns left alone Of a temple once complete. Like the stars that gem the sky, Far apart, though seeming near...
Page 216 - Alike in ignorance, his reason such Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still, by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all, Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Page 308 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 197 - ... as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of...
Page 239 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Page 220 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn : Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Page 157 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 309 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 234 - I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon ; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air 'T is less of earth than heaven.
Page 291 - It was dark again, black ; but the outcast stood freezing with horror and fright, gazing just in advance of his feet and waiting for the next gleam. It came, brighter than the last; and scarcely a step before him he saw three great serpents moving towards the spot that gave him already such slender footing. He recoiled a step — another; but instantly as he made the second a cold living form was under his foot, its folds flew round his ankle, and once! twice! it struck! With a frantic effort he...