Mother's Day: Its History, Origin, Celebration, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and VerseRobert Haven Schauffler |
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... Child Pensioning Mothers Seven Times Six Little Mothers . · " She Made Home Happy Little Mothers . • Charles S. Ross · 99 William Bell Scott William Gilmore Simms . Jean Ingelow S. T. R .. Henry Coyle . Emma S. Nesfield 3 4 5 78 ΙΟ 23 ...
... Child Pensioning Mothers Seven Times Six Little Mothers . · " She Made Home Happy Little Mothers . • Charles S. Ross · 99 William Bell Scott William Gilmore Simms . Jean Ingelow S. T. R .. Henry Coyle . Emma S. Nesfield 3 4 5 78 ΙΟ 23 ...
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... CHILD Child and Mother The Merchant The End My Mother's Grave To My Mother Motherless . Dedications • Eugene Field Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore Anonymous Henry Kirke White Elizabeth Barrett Browning 75 80 81 • 82 · 83 85 86 ...
... CHILD Child and Mother The Merchant The End My Mother's Grave To My Mother Motherless . Dedications • Eugene Field Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore Anonymous Henry Kirke White Elizabeth Barrett Browning 75 80 81 • 82 · 83 85 86 ...
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... CHILD On a Seventeenth Birthday Anne P. L. Field From the Plea of Cornelia . Propertius Mother , Nurse and Fairy ... Child of a Day Baby's Skies AND CHILD • Charles Tennyson Turner 165 Walter Savage Landor . 165 M. C. Bartlett · 166 On a ...
... CHILD On a Seventeenth Birthday Anne P. L. Field From the Plea of Cornelia . Propertius Mother , Nurse and Fairy ... Child of a Day Baby's Skies AND CHILD • Charles Tennyson Turner 165 Walter Savage Landor . 165 M. C. Bartlett · 166 On a ...
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... Children • PAGE 166 166 . 170 173 • 174 . 175 176 • 178 181 182 Frederick Locker - Lampson 183 Walter Savage Landor Widow and Child Alfred Tennyson Mothers and Sons G. W. E. Russell • · G. W. E. Russell " More , Please " Mephibosheth ...
... Children • PAGE 166 166 . 170 173 • 174 . 175 176 • 178 181 182 Frederick Locker - Lampson 183 Walter Savage Landor Widow and Child Alfred Tennyson Mothers and Sons G. W. E. Russell • · G. W. E. Russell " More , Please " Mephibosheth ...
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... child was unto the king , for her bowels yearned upon her son , and she said , O my lord , give her the living child , and in no wise slay it . But the other said , Let it be neither mine nor thine , but divide it . Then the king ...
... child was unto the king , for her bowels yearned upon her son , and she said , O my lord , give her the living child , and in no wise slay it . But the other said , Let it be neither mine nor thine , but divide it . Then the king ...
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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.