A Book of Comfort: An AnthologyElizabeth Goudge A treasury of prose and poetry offerings, wisdom and consolation for the difficulties and challenges of life. |
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... sleep as well And better than thy stroke . Why swell'st thou then ? One short sleep past , we wake eternally , And Death shall be no more : Death , thou shalt die ! JOHN DONNE Almighty Father , Thy love is like a great sea that girdles ...
... sleep as well And better than thy stroke . Why swell'st thou then ? One short sleep past , we wake eternally , And Death shall be no more : Death , thou shalt die ! JOHN DONNE Almighty Father , Thy love is like a great sea that girdles ...
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... sleeping bosom . They look in every thoughtless nest , Where birds are cover'd warm ; They visit caves of every beast , To keep them all from harm . If they see any weeping That should have been sleeping , They pour sleep on their head ...
... sleeping bosom . They look in every thoughtless nest , Where birds are cover'd warm ; They visit caves of every beast , To keep them all from harm . If they see any weeping That should have been sleeping , They pour sleep on their head ...
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An Anthology Elizabeth Goudge. THE WORLD OF SLEEP O soft embalmer of the still midnight ! Shutting , with careful fingers and benign , Our gloom - pleased eyes , embower'd from the light , Enshaded in forgetfulness divine ; O soothest Sleep ...
An Anthology Elizabeth Goudge. THE WORLD OF SLEEP O soft embalmer of the still midnight ! Shutting , with careful fingers and benign , Our gloom - pleased eyes , embower'd from the light , Enshaded in forgetfulness divine ; O soothest Sleep ...
Contents
IN THE BEGINNING | 21 |
THE CLOUDS RAIN AND RAINBOWS | 29 |
FOUNTAIN AND STREAM | 35 |
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