Prophecy and Faith Guide to Building Divine Realms
A poetic meditation urges the reader to trust inner faith and ambition. It speaks of shaping dreams, nature's guidance, and reaching noble heights where golden splendors lie. The verse emphasizes self-trust and divine realization of ideal forms through personal conviction.
My Home Sails With Maggie By My Side
A lyric sea ballad about a mariner adrift on dark waves longing for Maggie. The narrator declares storms cannot scare him while she sits beside him, praising her steadfast love and comfort as he roams the waters.
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The Streamlet of Fair Violets and Gentle Deeds
A lyric meditation on a stream in springtime with violets elms and daisies. The speaker contrasts tranquil scenes of grass and flowers with the stream’s impetuous surge over rocks, urging humble virtue and pure hearts as the world’s wealth. The piece blends nature imagery with a moral message about benevolence and beauty.
Sicily Burns wedding tale and bee swarms rodeo
Sut Lovingood narrates Sicily Burns wedding with wild mountain humor. A bull ride ends in a swarm of bees, a basket of wedding fare tossed and chaos on the lane. He boasts of antics, mock sermons, and wild talk on temperance, pigs, and rural life as the gathering dissolves in laughter and confusion.
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Keep Good Company and Wealth of the United States
A moral excerpt urges Christians to choose good company and avoid idle living with a list of maxims on character. The piece ends by noting the United States holds about 12 billion dollars of wealth for 24 million people, projecting $500 per person and $2,500 per family.
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LeisuRE Moments for the Boys
A moral exhortation urging boys to value leisure moments and use them profitably. It warns that time wasted cannot be recalled and advises reading good books in idle moments to improve manners and future prospects.
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Seorn
Personal Influence in a Living Soul
A meditation on how a single loving human presence stirs ideas from shadow to action. It compares intangible insight to living force, noting how a person’s gaze, breath, and faith awaken others, drawing them with a compelling, quiet passion.
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Blackwood
Cheerfulness Keeps a Good Humored Life and Leadership
A writer extols maintaining cheerfulness to dodge petty vexations and sour moods. Anger wastes vitality, while a light heart aids quick hands and alert minds. Franklin’s good humor is cited as shaping public opinion and softening contentious minds in Congress.
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Kind Words Heal Bruised Hearts Prompt Prompting Action
A reflective moral urges readers to value kindness as jewels in the breast and warns cruelty as swords that wound deeply. It questions whether any living person bears a wound from the reader and urges prompt reconciliation before life ends.
No man is a gentleman without provocation vows civility
A reflection on civility: no person can be a true gentleman unless they avoid incivility toward the humblest of their kind. It asserts that accomplishments or dress cannot redeem vulgar behavior and that genuine gentility comes from nature and practice, not attire or learning.
Beaus and Banter Speak on Sympathy and Marriage
A colorful speaker tells a crowd that dictionaries offer sympathy in all affliction. The piece then reflects on the melancholy sight of a lone young man navigating a strange city, lacking money and help. A French woman notes that a husband’s lasting love after marriage is a great blessing for a woman.
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