Beautiful Gems From American Writers And the Lives And Portraits of Our Favorite Authors
The book Beautiful Gems From American Writers And the Lives And Portraits of Our Favorite Authors was written by author Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909, [from Old Catalog] Ed Here you can read free online of Beautiful Gems From American Writers And the Lives And Portraits of Our Favorite Authors book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Beautiful Gems From American Writers And the Lives And Portraits of Our Favorite Authors a good or bad book?
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The Spoiler set His seal of silence. But there beamed a smile So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow. Death gazed, and left it there. He dared not stea^ The signet ring of heaven. A BUTTERFLY ON A CHILD'S GRAVE. BUTTERFLY basked on a baby's grave, Where a lily had chanced to grow ; " Why art thou here, with thy gaudy dye. When she of the blue and sparkling eye Must sleep in the churchyard low ?" Then it lightly soared through the sunny air, And spoke from its shining track : " I was a worm ti...ll I won my wings. And she whom thou mourn'st like a seraph sings, Wouldst thou call the blest one back '?" '^^)^^im''' ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH. AUTHOR OF " THE SINLESS CHILD." r was in the year 1841 that a poetic Romance of several episodes, written in bal hid style and entitled "The Sinless Child," was pub- lished in the Southern Literary Messenger and brought its author, a woman of thirty-five years, into general prominence, and gained for lier an enviable position which she ever after maintained and forti= fied with a series of the finest sonnets which the literature of our country affords.
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