| John Tilden Prince - English language - 1910 - 272 pages
...hamlet sleep. 15. The gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. 16. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble deeds, not dream them, all day long. 17. Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the... | |
| Education - 1904 - 484 pages
...Macaulay. "Frederick the Great.1' To be correlated with ethics. To illustrate the use of the semicolon. My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No...to skies so dull and gray ; Yet, ere we part, one ksson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things,... | |
| Norman Hepple - English poetry - 1911 - 306 pages
...nothing past To thee, dear home, if won at last; Dear home in England, won at last. AH CLOUGH 72. — A Farewell My fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who... | |
| American poetry - 1915 - 488 pages
...find: Take my advice, restrain the tongue, Remember what old nurse has sung Of busy Lady Wind. Unknown A FAREWELL MY fairest child, I have no song to give...No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray: Yet, if you will, one quiet hint I'll leave you For every day. I'll tell you how to sing a clearer carol... | |
| Ramsden Balmforth - Great Britain - 1912 - 252 pages
...What little maiden is there that has not learned by heart those beautiful, well-known lines ? — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long. And so make Life, Death, and the great Forever, One grand, sweet... | |
| Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - English language - 1912 - 360 pages
...about the use of the comma with words in series. What other uses of the comma do you know ? Memorize : Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble deeds, not dream them, all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet... | |
| Charles Kingsley - English poetry - 1913 - 370 pages
...Beacon ; Oh the weary haunt for me, All alone on Airly Beacon, With his baby on my knee ! A FAREWELL i MY fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. n Be good, sweet maid, and let who... | |
| Langdon Cheeves Stewardson - Sermons - 1913 - 356 pages
...figure of their brother Joseph wandering toward them through the fields. Charles Kingsley also sings, "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble deeds, not dream them, all day long:" Good advice beyond question, but given apparently with the naive... | |
| Robert Halifax - 1913 - 398 pages
...Richards had slipped into her hands one night as a gift, and which hung over the wash-stand there : — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long ! . . ." Tilly had thought that she understood those words in all... | |
| Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - Readers - 1914 - 330 pages
...Readers. A little girl once asked Mr. Kingsley to write in her album. This poem is what he wrote.] My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No...day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; To avoid fine, this book should be returned on or before the date last stamped below Tx Y?/ bfcfj... | |
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