"Cheerly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... breakers, Wind-beaten bones of long-since-buried acres; The night alone near water when I heard All the sea's spirit spoken by a bird; The English dusk when I beheld once more (With eyes so changed) the ship, the citied shore, The lines of masts, the streets so cheerly trod In happier seasons, and gave thanks to God. All had their beauty, their bright moments' gift, Their something caught from Time, ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various
... the steading A fortnight, say, or more; A blanket for his bedding We spread beside the door; And when the cocks crowed clearly Before the dawn was ripe, He'd call the milkmaids cheerly Upon ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various
... Hope, mid bleak Despair, Sprang, cheerly speaking to my heart, Sweet, smiling spring shall yet return, ...
— Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems • James Avis Bartley
... of—his own unruly passions; at last despair grapples him to her filthy bosom, he flies from himself. The honest man is not an insensible Stoic; virtue does not procure impassibility; honesty gives no exemption from misfortune, but it enables him to bear cheerly up against it; to cast off despair, to keep his own company: if he is infirm, if he is worn with disease, he has less to complain of than the vicious being who is oppressed with sickness, who is enfeebled by years; if he is indigent, he is less unhappy in his poverty; ...
— The System of Nature, Vol. 1 • Baron D'Holbach
... Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly— She is so constant to me and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her; But, ah, she is so constant ...
— Side Lights • James Runciman
... house and canty wife Aye keep a body cheerly; And pantries stowed wi' meat and drink, They answer unco rarely. But up in the mornin'—na, na, na! Up in the mornin' early! The gowans maun glint on bank and brae When I rise in ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so." Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men." The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,— And lo! Ben Adhem's name ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman
... died, he was taken with strange and violent fits, acting much like to our poor bewitched persons when we thought they would have died; and the doctor that was with him could not find what his distemper was. And, the day before he died, he was very cheerly; but, about midnight, he was again most violently seized upon with violent fits, till the next night, about midnight, he departed this ...
— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham |
