Isabel Denison, cont. A country neighborhoodH. Colburn, 1848 |
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Page 40 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 3 - Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 127 - Would ask but pathway low and still, Often such lowly heart is brought To act with power beyond its thought ; For GOD, through ways they have not known, Will lead His own.
Page 281 - A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh ! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Page 126 - The hopes and dreams of early thought ! For God, through ways they have not known, Will lead his own. The eager hearts, the souls of fire, Who pant to toil for God and man; And view with eyes of keen desire The upland way of toil and pain; Almost with scorn they think of rest, Of holy calm, of tranquil breast; But God, through ways they have not known, Will lead his own.
Page 12 - A School for Scandal! tell me, I beseech you, Needs there a school this modish art to teach you? No need of lessons now, the knowing think; We might as well be taught to eat and drink. Caused by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours Distress our fair ones — let them read the papers; Their powerful mixtures such disorders hit; Crave what you will — there's quantum sufficit. "Lord!
Page 133 - I saw him stand Before an Altar— with a gentle bride; Her face was fair, but was not that which made The Starlight of his Boyhood...
Page 290 - ... her own restless heart required something far different from Henry to lean upon. He watched her debate anxiously ; it was but a few moments, and then she spoke decidedly. " No, Henry, I must not say Yes. I do love you better than almost any one, but I don't love you enough for that, and never can.