St. Nicholas, Том 9Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1882 |
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ACROSTIC answer asked baby ball Balmung beautiful birds Bob Holli Bob Holliday boys brother Buttercup called castle Columbus Cormo cried Danby dear Donald door Dorothy Dorry EDWARD EGGLESTON eyes face fairy Fandy father feet fellow fire giant girls give Gnome Gray hand Harry head hear heard heart horse Jack JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT Jack's Julius Cæsar king knew lady land laughed letters Liddy little Christopher Columbus live Loki look MARY MAPES DODGE master moon morning mother Nehemiah never Nezahualcoyotl NICHOLAS night once Peedee Pewee play poor Port William Puss Reed Riley river SENESCHAL shouted side soon Stella stood story sure Susan Syncopate talk tell thing thought Titian told took trees turned walked whip wonderful wont woods young
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Сторінка 406 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres. and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will:...
Сторінка 406 - Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day . The solitary child. No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wide moor, — The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door!
Сторінка 406 - But never reached the town. The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. At day-break on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept — and, turning homeward, cried, "In heaven we all shall meet;" — When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet.
Сторінка 418 - Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Сторінка 406 - But the sweet face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen. 'To-night will be a stormy night — You to the town must go; And take a lantern, Child, to light Your mother through the snow.
Сторінка 140 - And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night— No sound save the rush of the river— While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead: The picket's off duty for ever.
Сторінка 406 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; — silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
Сторінка 60 - LORD, thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell, A little house, whose humble roof Is weatherproof, Under the spars of which I lie Both soft and dry ; Where thou, my chamber for to ward. Hast set a guard Of harmless thoughts, to watch and keep ! Me while I sleep. Low is my porch, as is my fate, Both void of state ; And yet the threshold of my door < Is worn by th' poor, Who thither come and freely get Good words or meat.
Сторінка 60 - Twice ten for one; Thou mak'st my teeming hen to lay Her egg each day; Besides, my healthful ewes to...
Сторінка 140 - ... vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken ; Then, drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes, He dashes off tears that are welling, And gathers his gun closer up to its place, As if to keep down the heart-swelling.