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... looked forth on a still , clear night , And whispered , ' Now , I shall be out of sight ; So through the valley , and over the height , In silence I'll take my way . I will not go on like that blustering train , 18 JACK FROST . Jack Frost,
... looked forth on a still , clear night , And whispered , ' Now , I shall be out of sight ; So through the valley , and over the height , In silence I'll take my way . I will not go on like that blustering train , 18 JACK FROST . Jack Frost,
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... looked like stars in the sky . One of them fell down , and left a long streak of fire . ' Somebody is dying , ' thought the little girl ; for her old grandmother , the only person who had ever loved her , and who was dead , had told her ...
... looked like stars in the sky . One of them fell down , and left a long streak of fire . ' Somebody is dying , ' thought the little girl ; for her old grandmother , the only person who had ever loved her , and who was dead , had told her ...
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... looked so frightened that my heart was quite touched , and my sympathy grew stronger and stronger when I found that one funny little skinny wing was all crumpled up , and seemed to give him a great deal of pain . He looked piteously at ...
... looked so frightened that my heart was quite touched , and my sympathy grew stronger and stronger when I found that one funny little skinny wing was all crumpled up , and seemed to give him a great deal of pain . He looked piteously at ...
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... looked bright enough in the morning , and although we gave him little food beyond a few flies and moths , his wing grew all right , and he very soon began to grow stout and strong . He was very sleepy and stupid during the day , when I ...
... looked bright enough in the morning , and although we gave him little food beyond a few flies and moths , his wing grew all right , and he very soon began to grow stout and strong . He was very sleepy and stupid during the day , when I ...
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... looked at him , the little black eyes were as bright and wide opened as ever , no matter how quiet he might have been before , and it was quite impossible to take him by surprise . As I lived in a town , I could not take him home with ...
... looked at him , the little black eyes were as bright and wide opened as ever , no matter how quiet he might have been before , and it was quite impossible to take him by surprise . As I lived in a town , I could not take him home with ...
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Page 34 - The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.
Page 46 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one...
Page 34 - And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.
Page 9 - Now, I shall be out of sight ; So through the valley and over the height, In silence I'll take my way ; I will not go on like that blustering train, The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain, Who make so much bustle and noise in vain ; — But I'll be as busy as they.
Page 64 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 35 - At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!
Page 33 - Then leaped her cable's length. "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, And do not tremble so; For I can weather the roughest gale That ever wind did blow.
Page 50 - Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
Page 33 - He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat Against the stinging blast; He cut a rope from a broken spar, And bound her to the mast. " O father! I hear the church-bells ring, O say, what may it be ? " " 'Tis a fog-bell on a rock-bound coast!
Page 24 - PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.