The Rose, Or Affection's Gift

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D. Appleton & Company, 1847
 

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Página 133 - Childhood innocence, When with their needles, creating both one flower; Both on one sampler ; sitting on one cushion ; Both warbling of one song ; both in one key : As if their hands, their sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So they grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition
Página 175 - the Lark sweetly sings as she soars on high, but is suddenly silent when she falls to earth ; so is the frame most delightful and divine whilst it keeps in the views of God by contemplation ; alas.' we make there too short a stay, fall down again and lay by our music!
Página 194 - western heaven ; I loved her when the sun was high, I loved her when he rose ; But, best of all, when evening's sigh Was murmuring at its close. The song was scarcely ended, when Minny felt her arm grasped with an unusual force
Página 13 - attacked your head-quarters: and if we had succeeded, our right was good, for you began the war. We failed—and you are here. " We wish for peace: we wish to rest in our huts ; we wish to get milk for our children;
Página 193 - is fair— Her blushing cheek, its crimson streak, Its clouds, her golden hair; Her glance, its beam, so soft and kind ; Her tears, its dewy showers ; And her voice, the tender whispering wind That stirs the early bowers.
Página 13 - saw that we must ourselves perish;—we followed, therefore, on the track of our cattle into the colony. We plundered, and we fought for our lives. We found you weak ; we destroyed your soldiers. We saw that we were strong
Página 168 - into the form of a crescent, so as to environ him on all sides. In vain he fled to the door ; its massive folds resisted mortal might. In vain he cast his eyes around in quest of a loophole of retreat—there was none. Closer and closer pressed on the slowly-moving phalanx, and the uplifted
Página 167 - going to be angry with you about it; for I was once flesh and blood myself. But you remember, the other night, saying that you would think nothing of pulling your master out of purgatory, if you could get at him there, and appealing to me to stand by your words." "•Yees,
Página 173 - ran our hero— As darts the dolphin from the shark, Or the deer before the hounds; and after him—fiercer than the shark, swifter than the
Página 170 - know aB from a bull's foot ?" " Well, it is called in Milton the Paradise of Fools : and if it were indeed peopled by all of that tribe who leave the world, it would contain the best company that ever figured on the earth. To the north, you see a bright

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