Stories that Might be True, with Other PoemsW. Pickering, 1850 - 180 pages |
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Aldine Edition awhile Basil Montagu Bessie bless blest breast breath bright brother brow cheek child cold crimson Rose dark dear deep dream E'en earth Edition evermore eyes fading fair fall father flowers fold gentle glows gone grieve hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven hour Izaak Walton Jeremy Taylor kind kiss knew leaf leave light lingering look Lord Ronald loved the best Mary morning mother murmured never night o'er Octavo Oh Father once passed perchance Pilgrim's Progress prest quiet rest Rose round seemed Sibbes sigh silent sing sister sleep smile soft softly song soothing soul sound spirit spoke stay sudden summer summer snow sweet tears tell thee thine things Thou art thought Thy Dream Trav trembling turned twine unto voice vols wave whisper William WILLIAM PICKERING wing word yore
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Page 69 - Is waiting, onwards still ! Forth from the casement, there SHE leans to gaze upon the sky, and now The evening light lies golden on her hair, Lies warm on cheek and brow...
Page 69 - SPEED, speed upon thy way! I send thee on a gentle errand, — fly, And work my bidding ere the parting ray Fades from the western sky. The summer woods are dark. And murmur lovingly, yet pause not thou That bearest tokens...
Page 70 - Ah ! would that to her heart She chanced but once to press the folded line, Then all the warmth to sudden life would start, I breathed on it from mine ! The love, the tenderness, That found in words no kindred language, there Would seek...
Page 64 - I kissed him on the cheek, His cheek was pale and very cold, And his voice was low and weak. And yet I can remember well Each word that he spoke then, For he said I must be a dear, good girl, And we should meet again ! And oh ! but I have tried since then To be good through all the day ; I have done...
Page 70 - ... golden on her hair, Lies warm on cheek and brow. She looks unto the west, — It is for thee she watches : thou wilt be Soon by her hand, her gentle hand, carest, — How softly, tenderly ! But first beneath thy wing It trembles, while she seeks my letter ; well She knows, ere yet she frees the silken string, All that it hath to tell...
Page 61 - THE LITTLE GIRL'S LAMENT. Is Heaven a long way off, mother? I watch through all the day, To see my father coming back And meet him on the way. And when the night comes on I stand Where once I used to wait, To see him coming from the fields And meet him at the gate ; Then I used to put my hand in his, And cared not more to play ; But I never meet him coming now, However long I stay. And you tell me he's in Heaven, and far, Far happier than we, And loves us still the same ; but how, Dear mother, can...
Page 63 - ... come back long ago To take us with him there. He never would be missed from Heaven ; I have heard father say How many angels God has there, To praise Him night and day ; He never would be missed in Heaven, From all that blessed throng. And we — oh! we have missed him here So sadly and so long ! But if he came to fetch us, then I would hold his hand so fast, I would not let it go again Till all the way was past. He'd tell me all that he has seen, But I would never say How dull and lonely we...