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... tear , she strove to check , A truant tear stole down her neck , It seem'd a drop that , from his bill , The linnet casts , beside a rill , Flirting his sweet and tiny shower Upon a milk - white April flower : - Or if a sigh , breathed ...
... tear , she strove to check , A truant tear stole down her neck , It seem'd a drop that , from his bill , The linnet casts , beside a rill , Flirting his sweet and tiny shower Upon a milk - white April flower : - Or if a sigh , breathed ...
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... tears might fall unseen . very There was something peculiarly tender and pitying in the way the hand was placed on her head ; at least Amy thought so , and strove more than ever to be cheerful , lest her mother , who lay so silently ...
... tears might fall unseen . very There was something peculiarly tender and pitying in the way the hand was placed on her head ; at least Amy thought so , and strove more than ever to be cheerful , lest her mother , who lay so silently ...
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... tears - tears far more painful than passionate sobs . Those are at the surface , and soon over , they cure grief by their very bitterness , and by the self - abandon- ment of the sufferer ; the others lie deeper and break the heart ...
... tears - tears far more painful than passionate sobs . Those are at the surface , and soon over , they cure grief by their very bitterness , and by the self - abandon- ment of the sufferer ; the others lie deeper and break the heart ...
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... ; yet he could not tear himself away . Some- times he was gloomy and desponding ; and on these days he never came near the cottage . At others his hopes rose when only a smile or glance 18 IT MAY BE TRUE . CHAPTER II. ...
... ; yet he could not tear himself away . Some- times he was gloomy and desponding ; and on these days he never came near the cottage . At others his hopes rose when only a smile or glance 18 IT MAY BE TRUE . CHAPTER II. ...
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... while old Hannah cleared away the tea things , went to her room and answered it . The doing so cost her many bitter thoughts , and perhaps a few tears were hastily dashed away . When it was done , her 34 IT MAY BE TRUE .
... while old Hannah cleared away the tea things , went to her room and answered it . The doing so cost her many bitter thoughts , and perhaps a few tears were hastily dashed away . When it was done , her 34 IT MAY BE TRUE .
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Page 140 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music— summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 179 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 140 - But ever and anon of griefs subdued There comes a token like a Scorpion's sting, Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever...
Page 179 - I have done ; and howsoever My language may appear to you, it carries No other than my fair and just intent To your delights, without curb to their modest And noble freedom.