Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips, the smile of truth. Oh, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that cannot heal, Even as sleep our eyes doth seal ; And that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many... The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 339by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
| Caroline M. Mersereau - 1860 - 370 pages
...Gather, then, each flower that grown When the young heart overflows To embalm that tent of snows. V. Bear a lily in thy hand ; Gates of brass cannot withstand...the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. Oh, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds that cannot heal, E'en as sleep our eyes doth seal... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 pages
...bough, where slumbered Birds and blossoms many-numbered ; — Age, that bough with snows encumbered. Gather, then, each flower that grows, When the young...lily in thy hand ; Gates of brass cannot withstand Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth.... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 468 pages
...XIII. Hearest thou voices on the shore That our ears perceive no more, Deafened by the cataract's roar? Bear, through sorrow, wrong and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. LONOFEILOW. FROM all that has been stated, the reader will, probably, be prepared to learn that Boden... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 506 pages
...daughters of Ravensnest. On the whole, the meeting was friendly, and my reception warm. 1 CHAPTER X. " Bear, through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart...the dew of youth. On thy lips the smile of truth." LONGFELLOW. THE ceremony of the introductions was not half through, when there was a noisy summons... | |
| Mrs. Frances West Atherton Pike - 1860 - 310 pages
...unawares." And then she would press him to her heart and breathe gentle counsel to the child : — " Sear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth." If you had seen him then with his large lustrous eyes raised to hers — with that longing, earnest... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 504 pages
...On the whole, the meeting was friendly, and my reception warm. 7 CHAPTER X. " Bear, through Borrow, wrong, and ruth. In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth." LONOFULOW. THE ceremony of the introductions was not half through, when there was a noisy summons to... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...bough, where slumbered Birds and blossoms many-numbered ; — Age, that bough with snows encumbered Gather, then, each flower that grows, When the young...the dew of youth, On thy lips, the smile of truth. Oh, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds, that cannot heal, Even as sleep our eyes doth seal... | |
| 1861 - 356 pages
...O thou-child of many prayers I Life hath quicksands, life hath snares I Care and age come unawares! Bear a lily in thy hand; Gates of brass cannot withstand...the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. LONGFELLOW. YOuth with swift feet walks onward in the way, The land of joy lies all before his eyes.... | |
| 1861 - 144 pages
...bough, where slumbered Birds and blossoms many-numbered ; — Age that bough with snows encumbered. Gather, then, each flower that grows When the young...heart overflows, To embalm that tent of snows. Bear a Illy in thy hand ; Gates of brass cannot withstand One touch of that magic wand. Bear through sorrow,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...bough, where slumber'd Birds and blossoms many-number'd ; — Age, that bough with snows encumber' d. Gather, then, each flower that grows When the young...the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth. Oh, that dew, like balm, shall steal Into wounds that cannot heal, Even as sleep our eyes doth seal... | |
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