The Lady's Token, Or Gift of FriendshipCotesworth Pinckney J. Buffum, 1848 - 128 pages |
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affection angel beautiful blessed blest bliss bloom bosom breast breath bright brother calm cease from troubling charm cheek cheer cherub CHILD OF SORROW CHILDHOOD'S HOME dark dear death delight dream dust dust return dwell earth ERIN'S DAUGHTER eyes fair FATHER'S DARLING feel FEMALE INFLUENCE flowers FOOTSTEPS forever forget friendship gentle gloom gone governor grave hand happy happy hours HARVARD COLLEGE hath heaven holy hope hope and fear hour husband HYMN IRRELIGIOUS HOME JOHN xix kind to thy kiss LESS I LOVE life's light lisp live to love lonely loved thee marriage memory's Mercy mind mortal mother NASHUA ne'er never Nova Scotia o'er pardon parents path peace perfect bliss prayer prison rapture rest Sing Sing SISTER'S LOVE skies sleep smile soul spect star tears THINK NOT LESS thou hast thought thy spirit tomb virtue voice weary weeping wicked cease wing woman young
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Page 12 - Thus star by star declines Till all are passed away, As morning high and higher shines To pure and perfect day : Nor sink those stars in empty night ; They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
Page 78 - And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 105 - They say there is a young lady in [New Haven] who is beloved of that Great Being, who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this Great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight...
Page 106 - She will sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly; and seems to be always full of joy and pleasure; and no one knows for what. She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have some one invisible always conversing with her.
Page 106 - Therefore, if you present all the world before her, with the richest of its treasures, she disregards it and cares not for it. and is unmindful of any pain or affliction. She has a strange sweetness in her mind, and singular purity in her affections ; is most just and conscientious in all her conduct; and you could not persuade her to do any thing wrong or sinful, if you would give her all the world, lest she should offend this Great Being. She is of a wonderful sweetness, calmness, and universal...
Page 78 - Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Page 106 - He is, to be raised up out of the world and caught up into heaven ; being assured that He loves her too well to let her remain at a distance from Him always.
Page 70 - Who loved thee so fondly as he ? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.
Page 90 - Divine mercy, and of a grateful adoration for the Divine goodness. Her tastes and habits had been moulded into a perfect conformity to his. He celebrates her Catholic charity to the opponents of their religious opinions, and her inflexible adherence to her own; her high esteem of the active and passive virtues of the Christian life, as contrasted with a barren orthodoxy ; her noble disinterestedness, her skill in casuistry, her love of music, and her medicinal arts.
Page 71 - The flowers of feeling will fade at their birth, If the dew of affection be gone. Be kind to thy brother, wherever you are, The love of a brother shall be An ornament, purer and richer by far, Than pearls from the...