Voices of the Heart

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B. B. Mussey & Company, 1853 - 120 sidor
 

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Sida 62 - Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Sida 19 - LAY the babe upon my bosom, let me feel her sweet, warm breath, For a strange chill o'er me passes, and I know that it is death. I would gaze upon the treasure, scarcely given ere I go, — Feel her rosy dimpled fingers wander o'er my cheek of snow. I am passing through the waters, but a blessed shore appears, — Kneel beside me, husband, dearest, let me kiss away thy tears. Wrestle with thy grief, as Jacob strove from midnight until day; It may leave an angel's blessing, when it vanishes away.
Sida 116 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap...
Sida 37 - O, say not so ! for I would clasp her, even As when below she lay upon my breast : And dream of her as my fair bud in Heaven, Amid the blossoms blest. My little one was like a folded lily, Sweeter than any on the azure wave ; But night came down, a starless night, and chilly ; Alas ! we could not save ! Yes, as a child, serene and noble poet, (O, Heaven were dark, were children wanting there !) I hope to clasp my bud as when I wore it ; A dimpled baby fair. Though years have flown, toward my blue-eyed...
Sida 20 - Love my first-born ! oh, my husband ! turn not from the motherless. Tell her sometimes of her mother — you can call her by my name ; Shield her from the winds of sorrow — if she errs, oh, gently blame ! Lead her sometimes where I'm sleeping, I will answer if she calls ; And my breath will stir her ringlets, when my voice...
Sida 20 - tis not long she can be there, — See ! how to my heart she nestles, — 'tis the pearl I love to wear ; — If, in after years, beside thee sits another in my chair, Though her voice be sweeter music, and my face than...
Sida 21 - I'm sleeping, I will answer if she calls, And my breath will stir her ringlets, when my voice in blessing falls. Her soft blue eyes will brighten with a wonder whence it came, — In her heart when years pass o'er her, she will find her mother's name. It is said that every mortal walks between two angels here, — One records the ill, but blots it, if before the midnight drear Man...
Sida 38 - ... fair. Though years have flown toward my blue-eyed daughter, My heart yearns ofttimes with a mother's love; Its never-dying tendrils now infold her, E'en as a child above.
Sida 57 - I'm going through the eternal gates, Ere June's sweet roses blow ! Death's lovely angel leads me there, And it is sweet to go.
Sida 21 - ... Her soft blue eyes will brighten with a wonder whence it came, — In her heart when years pass o'er her, she will find her mother's name. It is said that every mortal walks between two angels here, — One records the ill, but blots it, if before the midnight drear Man repenteth; if uncancelled, then he seals it for the skies, And the right-hand angel weepeth, bowing low with veiled eyes. I will be her rightrhand angel, sealing up the good for heaven, Striving that the midnight watches find...

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