Jan Vedder's WifeDodd, Mead, 1885 - 329 pages |
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Page 116 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 138 - Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
Page 94 - THEN hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss: Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.
Page 318 - And conquering rides the Norseman. He hides at heart of his rough life A world of sweetness for the Wife : From his rude breast a Babe may press Soft milk of human tenderness, — Make his eyes water, his heart dance, And sunrise in his countenance : In merry mood his ale he quaffs By firelight, and his jolly heart laughs : The blithe, great-hearted Norseman.
Page 73 - consisting not in meats and drinks, but in righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost...
Page 283 - THOU my soul, bless God the Lord, and all that in me is Be stirred up his holy name , to magnify and bless.
Page 319 - The Norseman stood with Robin Hood By Freedom in the merry green wood, When William ruled the English land With cruel heart and bloody hand. For Freedom fights the Norseman. Still in our race the Norse king reigns ; His best blood beats along our veins ; With his old glory we can glow, And surely sail where he could row : Is danger stirring ? from its sleep Our War-dog wakes his watch to keep, Stands with our Banner over him, True as of old, and stern and grim ! Come on...
Page 297 - It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem." Ibid. 8 That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. Ibid., Ch. 14 9 It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. Ibid. 10 But the lover's power is the poet's power....
Page 111 - But that may change it all over again,' she said. ' It is not likely ; he would not have settled things one day and unsettled them the next : especially as nothing had happened in the meantime to make him change again.' ' Rose looked very curiously, anxiously, at the letter. She took it in her hand and turned it over and over. ' It must be about me, anyhow, I suppose '
Page 252 - Ah yet, when all is thought and said, The heart still overrules the head ; Still what we hope we must believe, And what is given us receive ; Must still believe, for still we hope That in a world of larger scope, What here is faithfully begun Will be completed, not undone.