IF THOU BUT SPEAK

... IF THOU BUT SPEAK. If thou hut speak, the chattering brooklet, ever Wasting in idle gossip with the flo wers Tlle sweet long hours of .9unmier thit ?? never Come back to us-the long sweet hours- Forgets it- story to give thought to thine, Forgets all ...

IF THOU BUT SPEAK

... IF THOU BUT SPEAK. If thou but speak, the chattering brooklet, ever Wasting in idle goesip with the flowers The sweet long hours of sumnmer that can never Come back again to us-the long sweet hours- Forgets its story to gitve thought to thine, Forgets ...

THE ENGLISH SUNDAY AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... English exhibitors at the Exhibition the religious observance of the Sunday. The effort made was to induce every English-speaking ex- hibitor to withdraw all attendance, abstain from aI ex- hibition, and to refuse to have anything to do with busi. ness ...

WONT YOU?

... having wandered all the day, Linked arm in arm, I dared to say, You'll love me-won't you? And when you blushed, and could not speak, I fondly kissed your glowing cheek; Did that affront you n Oh, surely not; your eye exprest No wrath-but said, perhaps in ...

POETRY

... POETRY. VOICES IN THE WIND. Voices risdng on the hill, AU its gusty passes fill, Speaking to the winds and then Lost in hollows of the glen. Voices-of an unknown tongue Broken speech, with pauses hung, In the viewless winds go by- Is it song or is it ...

Literature

... before us i's superior of its class. Mr. Davenport Adams has not-been simply content to let biographies of successful men speak for themselves; be has done more; he has gone into the whole purposes of succeme, And; has given an analysis of the various ...

POETRY

... POETRY. IF THOU BUT SPEAIK. If thou but speak, the chatterinabrooklet, ever Wasting in idle goesip with the flowers. The sweet long hours of suramer that oan never Come back again th us-the long sweet hours- Forget- ite dory to give thought to thins, ...

A RHYME OF THE TIMES

... OF THE TIMES. brms Pallas Rudora Von 13hirky She didn't know chicken from turkey: Eigh Spanish and Greek she could duently speak, But her knowledge of poultry was murkey. She could tell the great uncle of MoseW, And the dates of the Wxrs of the Roses, ...

POETRY

... sad I said he, Two farthings in my breeches, A silver fourpenre in my puree, And ene Fiencb bit or money. Then added (speaking of his nurse), 'Twas given me byNunney, A lucky sispence, father, too ; He paused, as though to measure With those grave ...

Magazines

... Hundreds, on Her Majesty's Ministers, that is to say, on the style and manner each of these distinguished personages has of speaking and bearing himself in Parliament. Thus we are told apropos of Lord Beaconsfield's distaste for facts and details, when ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1879
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1077 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LONDON AND WESTMINSTER AMATEURS

... in front, histrionically the rendition generally was a failure. As regards Still Waters Rvn Deep, we are glad to be able to speak in more qualified terms, and, indeed, in some instances to award much praise. The opening of the drama was cer- tainly the ...

Published: Sunday 21 December 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1198 | Page: 3 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

POETRY

... POETRY. LITTLE SHOES AND STOCKINGS. Little shoce; and stockings! What it Ile yo speak, Of the swvollen eyelid, Aud the tear weteheok; Of tha nightly vigil, And thb dnily prayer; Of the buried dar li:1g, Present everywhec I Brightly plaitled stockings ...