My New Home in Northern Michigan: & Other TalesW. S. and E. W. Sharp, 1874 - 180页 |
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第115页 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, A-tilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest; — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
第29页 - Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each other ; And with a look so piteous in purport, As if he had been loosed out of hell, To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
第163页 - There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
第14页 - What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools ? If honest nature made you fools, What sairs your grammars ? Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, Or knappin'-hammers. A set o...
第68页 - not by power, nor by might, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
第90页 - On, on, with fiendish yells they come rushing to the breach. Over the hills and up the ravines they charge; it is now hand to hand, man to man ; Colonel Rowett and his men fight desperately. General Corse is now wounded ; he has been fighting manfully ; man never before stood as...
第130页 - It is many years since I fell in love with Jane Jerusha Skeggs, the handsomest country girl by far that ever went on legs. By meadow, creek, and wood, and dell, so often we did walk, and the moonlight smiled on her melting lips, and the night winds learned our talk. Jane Jerusha was all to me, for my heart was young and true, and loved with a double and twisted love...
第130页 - ... talk. Jane Jerusha was all to me, for my heart was young and true, and loved with a double and twisted love, and a love that was honest, too. I roamed all over the neighbours' farms, and I robbed the wildwood bowers, and tore my trousers and scratched my hands in search of choicest flowers. In my joyous love I brought all these to my Jerusha Jane ; but I wouldn't be so foolish now, if I were a boy again. A city chap then came along, all dressed up in fine clothes...
第131页 - I roamed all over the neighbours' farms, and I robbed the wildwood bowers, and tore my trousers and scratched my hands in search of choicest flowers. In my joyous love I brought all these to my Jerusha Jane ; but I wouldn't be so foolish now, if I were a boy again. A city chap then came along, all dressed up in fine clothes, with a shiny hat and shiny vest and a moustache under his nose. He talked to her of singing-schools (for her father owned a farm), and she left me, the country love, and took...
第70页 - Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.