 | Anna Garlin Spencer - 1923 - 338 Seiten
...joy ! One often thinks of the lovely song of Emily Dickinson when sitting thus in a public library: "He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust ; He knew no more that he was poor Or that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy ways And this bequest of wings Was but a book.... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1890 - 164 Seiten
...hats. And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against the sun ! XXI. A BOOK. TT E ate and drank the precious words, "*• •*• His...but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings ! XXII. T HAD no time to hate, because •*• The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1890 - 168 Seiten
...hats. And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against the sun ! XXI. A BOOK. TTE ate and drank the precious words, •*• •*•...but a. book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings ! XXII. T HAD no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could... | |
 | 1891 - 806 Seiten
...Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. A BOOK. He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew...He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wm^s Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings ! Roberts.) $1.50.) — Providence Sunday... | |
 | 1897 - 844 Seiten
...; AROUND THE STUDY LAMP. A BOOK. Hi1 ate mid drank the precious words. His spirit grew robust ; Hr knew no more that he was poor. Nor that his frame was dust, lie danced alonf? the dingy days. And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. h. SIB JOHN DKNIIAM — Of Prudence. Frithjof s Saga. Canto VIII. Justice, sir, is the...On Mr. Justice Story, 1845. K. KINDNESS. Kindness ! »'. EMILY DICKINSON — A Book. (Ed. 1891). Golden volumes ! richest treasures, Objects of delicious... | |
 | 1897 - 50 Seiten
...service. Hear my prayer, for my dear Redeemer's sake. Amen.— !^el. 124 125 AROUND THE STUDY LAMP. He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust ; He knew no more that he wus poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Wa«... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 954 Seiten
...star, and there a star, Some lose their way. Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards — day ! A BOOK HE ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew...but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings 1 UTTERANCE I FOUND the phrase to every thought I ever had, but one ; And that defies me, — as a... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 Seiten
...way. Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards — day ! A BOOK HE ate and drank the precious word*, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was...but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings ! UTTERANCE I FOUND the phra.se to every thought I ever had, but one; And that defies me, — as a... | |
 | Henry Fox Hewes - 1900 - 332 Seiten
...they learn these things, to them life becomes filled with an interest and a joy which can never die. " He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust, He knew no more that he was poor He danced along the dingy days— And that bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened... | |
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He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! 
