Soft is the breath of a maiden's YES: Not the light gossamer stirs with less; But never a cable that holds so fast Through all the battles of wave and blast, And never an echo of speech or song That lives in the babbling air so long ! There were tones... Modern Eloquence - หน้า 619แก้ไขโดย - 1900มุมมองทั้งเล่ม - เกี่ยวกับหนังสือเล่มนี้
| 1885 - 404 หน้า
...reading, as hot water draws the strength of tea-leaves." — Autocrat of ike В rea k fast- Table. 33. " Soft is the breath of a maiden's yes, Not the light...all the battles of wave and blast. And never an echo oí speech or son^j That lives in the babbling1 air so long.1' — Dorothy Q. 34. "Talking is one of... | |
| 1885 - 692 หน้า
...was lacking in-honour, or was not all that she believed him to be. (To be continued.) A MAIDEN'S YES. Soft is the breath of a maiden's yes, Not the light...stirs with less ; But never a cable that holds so fastj Through all the battles of wave and blast, And never an echo of speech or song That lives in... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 596 หน้า
...swelled with the bosom's thrill ? Should I be I, or would it be One tenth another, to nine tenths me ? Soft is the breath of a maiden's YES : Not the light...may hear to-day in a hundred men. O lady and lover, how faint and far Your images hover, — and here we are, Solid and stirring in flesh and bone, —... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 410 หน้า
...swelled with the bosom's thrill? Should I be I, or would it be One tenth another, to nine tenths me ? Soft is the breath of a maiden's YES : Not the light...whispered then You may hear to-day in a hundred men. 0 lady and lover, how faint and far Your images hover, — and here we are, Solid and stirring in flesh... | |
| Emily Katherine Bates - 1887 - 318 หน้า
...to house and land ; Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow, and death and life ! " Soft is the breath of a maiden's yes, Not the light...whispered then, You may hear to-day in a hundred men ! " Oh lady and lover, how faint and far Your images hover, and here we are;! Solid and stirring in... | |
| 1888 - 580 หน้า
...by the education they give, the character of the race. Soft is the breath of a maiden's YES : Scarce the light gossamer stirs with less; But never a cable...tones in the voice that whispered then, You may hear to day in a hundred men. What if a hundred years ago, Those close-shut lips had answered No, When forth... | |
| 1888 - 782 หน้า
...ACCEPTANCE. Soft is the breath of a maiden's "Yea!" Not the light gossamer stirs with less; But never a cablo that holds so fast, Through all the battles of wave...speech or song That lives in the babbling air so long. TEACHER—" How many zones are there ?" Iby—" Six." " Nfl», there are only five." " Yes, there are... | |
| Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood - 1888 - 446 หน้า
...repeateth the name, But he that docth the will. Longfellow. 41. Her commerce whitens every sea. 42. There were tones in the voice that whispered then You may hear to-day in a hundred men. Holmes. 43. Leaves have their time to fall, And stars to set — but all, Thou hast all seasons for... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 450 หน้า
...swelled with the bosom's thrill ? Should I be I, or would it be One tenth another, to nine tenths me > Soft is the breath of a maiden's YES : Not the light...whispered then You may hear to-day in a hundred men. 0 lady and lover, how faint and far Your images hover, — and here we are, Solid and stirring in flesh... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 482 หน้า
...house and land ; Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow and death and life ! . . . Soft is the breath of a maiden's YES : Not the light...whispered then You may hear to-day in a hundred men. DOROTHY Q. DECEMBER 8. A coin, a ring, a string of verses. These last, and hardly anything else does.... | |
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