 | Anna Garlin Spencer - Families - 1923 - 338 pages
...joy ! One often thinks of the lovely song of Emily Dickinson when sitting thus in a public library: "He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust ; He knew no more that he was poor Or that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy ways And this bequest of wings Was but a book.... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1890 - 168 pages
...hats. And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against the sun ! XXI. A BOOK. TTE ate and drank the precious words, •*• •*•...spirit grew robust ; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a. book.... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1890 - 164 pages
...hats. And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against the sun ! XXI. A BOOK. TT E ate and drank the precious words, "*• •*• His...spirit grew robust ; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book.... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 806 pages
...Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. A BOOK. He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust ; He knew no more that he was poor. Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wm^s Was but a book.... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. h. SIB JOHN DKNIIAM — Of Prudence. Frithjof s Saga. Canto VIII. Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. /. DANIEL WEB Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book.... | |
 | Group reading - 1897 - 50 pages
...service. Hear my prayer, for my dear Redeemer's sake. Amen.— !^el. 124 125 AROUND THE STUDY LAMP. He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust ; He knew no more that he wus poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Wa«... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...star, and there a star, Some lose their way. Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards — day ! A BOOK HE ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 968 pages
...way. Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards — day ! A BOOK HE ate and drank the precious word*, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 964 pages
...star, and there a star, Some lose their way. Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards — day ! A BOOK th; And I who woke each morrow To clasp thy baud in mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a. book.... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 pages
...mountain, cold and gray ; O sail, in thy snowy whiteness, Come not into port, I pray ! ANONYMOUS. A BOOK HE ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust ; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days ; And this bequest of wings Was but a book.... | |
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He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! 
