Mother's Day: Its History, Origin, Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and VerseRobert Haven Schauffler |
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... bear , to nurse , to rear , To watch , and then to lose : To see my bright ones disappear , Drawn up like morning dews , - To bear , to nurse , to rear , To watch and then to lose : This have I done when God drew near Among his own to ...
... bear , to nurse , to rear , To watch , and then to lose : To see my bright ones disappear , Drawn up like morning dews , - To bear , to nurse , to rear , To watch and then to lose : This have I done when God drew near Among his own to ...
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... bear , to nurse , to rear , To love , - and then to lose . LITTLE MOTHERS BY S. T. R. To - day everything is being done for the child . The child is the hope of the race of the next generation . the father and mother The children of the ...
... bear , to nurse , to rear , To love , - and then to lose . LITTLE MOTHERS BY S. T. R. To - day everything is being done for the child . The child is the hope of the race of the next generation . the father and mother The children of the ...
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... bear that , as I must bear the rest , and I can shrink under some hedge and lay myself down to die . Humiliation for me ! No ; I will not put that in comparison with seeing and living with my children . ' " There is something ...
... bear that , as I must bear the rest , and I can shrink under some hedge and lay myself down to die . Humiliation for me ! No ; I will not put that in comparison with seeing and living with my children . ' " There is something ...
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... bears . We thank Thee for the hopes that rise . Within her heart , as , day by day , The dawning soul , from those young eyes , Looks with a clearer , steadier ray . And grateful for the ... bear A 70 AMERICAN HOLIDAYS William Cullen Bryant.
... bears . We thank Thee for the hopes that rise . Within her heart , as , day by day , The dawning soul , from those young eyes , Looks with a clearer , steadier ray . And grateful for the ... bear A 70 AMERICAN HOLIDAYS William Cullen Bryant.
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... bear A mother's charge , the strength and light To guide the feet that own their care In ways of Love and Truth and Right . * From the " Bryant Anthology . " Ford , Howard , Hulbert . III CHILD TO MOTHER VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER BY ...
... bear A mother's charge , the strength and light To guide the feet that own their care In ways of Love and Truth and Right . * From the " Bryant Anthology . " Ford , Howard , Hulbert . III CHILD TO MOTHER VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER BY ...
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Admetus Andromache baby beautiful bird blessed breast brow cheek child CHRISTINA G Clytemnestra cold Coriolanus dank and lone dark darling daughter DAVID GRAY dead death dream earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING EUGENE FIELD Euripides eyes face fair father flowers fond gentle girl grief hand happy hear heard heaven holy hope hour husband infant JEAN INGELOW kiss light lips living look MARY FRANCES BUTTS maternal morning Mother o'mine mother's heart mother's love motherhood nest never night Niobe numbers o'er pain PHOEBE CARY play pray prayer RABINDRANATH TAGORE rest rice-swamps dank ROBERT BRIDGES ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER rock shine sing sleep smile sold and gone song sons sorrow soul spirit stars story sweet tears tender thine things thou thought touched voice W. D. HOWELLS watch weary weep woman women words young youth
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Page 18 - Now, when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow ; and much people of the city was with her.
Page 242 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies.
Page 239 - It was.— Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown: May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
Page 239 - Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! It answers — Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu I But was it such ? — It was.
Page 61 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Page 18 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Page 21 - All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!
Page 114 - Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night...
Page 238 - I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else, how distinct they say, 'Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Page 350 - ... the welfare of such child to remain at home, the court may enter an order finding such facts and fixing the amount of money necessary to enable the parent or parents to properly care for such child, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the County Board, through its County Agent or otherwise, to pay to such parent or parents, at such times as said order may designate, the amount so specified for the care of such dependent or neglected child until the further order of the court.