Thoughts for the ThoughtfulAdelaide S. Seaverns |
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A. D. T. Whitney Alice Cary angel Anon autumn beauty blessed bloom blossom breath Celia Thaxter character Christ Christian clouds cross dark dear death divine doth duty earth Elizabeth Barrett Browning eternal eyes face faith Father feel feet flowers Frances Ridley Havergal fruit Gannett give glad glory God's grace grain grow hand happiness harvest hath heart heaven heavenly Helen Hunt Jackson Henry Frederic Amiel holy hope Jean Ingelow Jesus June Katharine Lee Bates leaves life's lift light live look Lord Lucy Larcom never night o'er once pain peace perfect Phillips Brooks Phoebe Cary praise pray prayer rain secret shadow shine singing song sorrow soul spirit spring stand storm summer sunshine Susan Coolidge sweet tears thee Thine things thought to-day tree unto voice wait walk wind word
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Page 202 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 289 - I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away! With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there...
Page 21 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 96 - Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it!
Page 324 - So, take and use Thy work, Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past the aim! My times be in Thy hand ! Perfect the cup as planned ! Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same ! PEOSPICE Fear death?
Page 163 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 285 - O Thou, to whose all-searching sight The darkness shineth as the light, Search, prove my heart ; it pants for Thee ; O, burst these bonds, and set it free. 2 Wash out its stains, refine its dross , Nail my affections to the cross ; Hallow each thought; let all within Be clean, as Thou, my Lord, art clean. 3...
Page 199 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 19 - WHEN some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, And silence against which you dare not cry, Aches round you like a strong disease and new — What hope? what help? what music will undo That silence to your sense? Not friendship's sigh, Not reason's subtle count; not melody Of viols, nor of pipes that Kaunus blew; Not songs of poets, nor of nightingales Whose hearts leap upward through the cypress-trees To the clear moon; nor yet the spheric laws Self-chanted, nor...
Page 313 - The pastures are clothed with flocks ; The valleys also are covered over with corn ; They shout for joy, they also sing.