The girl's own bookWilliam Tegg & Company, 85, Queen Street, Cheapside, 1853 - Počet stran: 400 |
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Strana 385 - Twixt book and lute, the hours divide ; And marvel how I e'er could stray From thee — my own Fire-side ! •' My own Fire-side ! Those simple words Can bid the sweetest dreams arise : Awaken feeling's tenderest chords, And fill with tears of joy my eyes ! What is there my wild heart can prize, That doth not in thy sphere abide, Haunt of my home-bred sympathies, My own — my own Fire-side...
Strana 385 - LET others seek for empty joys, At ball, or concert, rout, or play ; Whilst, far from fashion's idle noise, Her gilded domes, and trappings gay, I while the wintry eve away, — 'Twixt book and lute the hours divide ; And marvel how I e'er could stray From thee — my own Fireside! My own Fireside ! Those simple words Can bid the sweetest dreams arise ; Awaken feeling's tenderest chords, And fill with tears of joy...
Strana 215 - , WE are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features ; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Strana 157 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?
Strana 108 - The road he took, then hasted to my friends; Whom with a troop of fifty chosen men, I met advancing. The pursuit I led, Till we o'ertook the spoil-encumber'd foe. We fought and conquer'd. E're a sword was drawn, An arrow from my bow had pierc'd their chief, Who wore that day the arms which now I wear.
Strana 108 - Rush'd like a torrent down upon the vale, Sweeping our flocks and herds. The shepherds fled For safety, and for succour. I alone, With bended bow, and quiver full of arrows, Hover'd about the enemy, and mark'd The road he took ; then hasted to my friends, Whom, with a troop of fifty chosen men, I met advancing.
Strana 108 - That our good king had summoned his bold peers To lead their warriors to the Carron side, I left my father's house, and took with me A chosen servant to conduct my steps : Yon trembling coward, who forsook his master. Journeying with this intent, I pass'd these towers, And, Heaven-directed, came this day to do The happy deed that gilds my humble name.
Strana 147 - But the ox would not. She went a little further, and she met a butcher. So she said— " Butcher, butcher, kill ox ! Ox won't drink water ; Water won't quench fire ; Fire won't burn stick; Stick won't beat dog; Dog won't bite pig...
Strana 42 - PAT A CAKE Pat a cake, pat a cake, Baker's man. Bake me a cake As fast as you can. Roll it, and pat it, And mark it with a "B." And put it in the oven. For Baby and me!
Strana 52 - INTERY, mintery, cutery-corn, Apple seed and apple thorn ; Wine, brier, limber-lock, Five geese in a flock, Sit and sing by a spring, OUT, and in again.