Our Breakfast Book: Wholesome Thoughts for Every DayP.F. Volland, 1910 - 143 pages |
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ain't Apple April August beautiful bees birds bless blest bloom boughs boyle carol charm cheerful Christmas Clarence Hawkes colour comes Daisy Dill dear December delight doth Easter Eben Holden Elizabeth Akers Allen fair faith February field flagroot floures flowers fragrant friends Garden George Eliot Gerarde's Herball give grace green happiness harvest hath heart heaven Helen Hunt Jackson Henry van Dyke James January John Gerarde John Greenleaf Whittier John Lubbock July June laugh leaves live man's March Marcus Aurelius merry mind Nature's never November October Orchard peace Phoebe Cary Plant Lore pleasant pleasure Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Herrick Robert Louis Stevenson roses September sing smile song soul soule-cake spring Stephen Marion Watson Straw-berries sugar sweet syrrup thee things Thomas Tusser thou thought trees true unto vertues Violets Wassail William wisdom wish
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Page 120 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 56 - We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May.
Page 91 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 71 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 17 - St Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith...
Page 44 - Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
Page 18 - And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 79 - Unite us in the sacred love Of knowledge, truth, and thee ; And let our hills and valleys shout The songs of liberty.
Page 41 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 82 - HAST thou named all the birds without a gun ? Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk? At rich men's tables eaten bread and pulse ? Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust ? And loved so well a high behaviour, In man or maid, that thou from speech refrained, Nobility more nobly to repay ? O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine...