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The parted family, and other poems. An offering to the afflicted, and atribute of love to departed friends

Mary Dana Shindler · 1842 · Scanned text

51,386 words · about 3 h 36 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1842, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/30011998); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Mary Dana Shindler
Language
English
Published
1842
Length
51,386 words · about 3 h 36 min
Sections
46 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (46)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Contents about 2 min
  3. Preface about 43 min
  4. I. Another tenant for Death's charnel house ! under 1 min
  5. II under 1 min
  6. III under 1 min
  7. IV. And to the novice 'tis a fearful scene under 1 min
  8. V under 1 min
  9. VI under 1 min
  10. VII. We know that we must die. 0, then, how strange under 1 min
  11. VIII about 12 min
  12. IX under 1 min
  13. X under 1 min
  14. XI under 1 min
  15. XII under 1 min
  16. XIII. 'Twas not with stoical philosophy under 1 min
  17. XIV. The truly pious are most sensitive under 1 min
  18. XV under 1 min
  19. XVI. 'Twas confidence in Heaven — for there she turn'd under 1 min
  20. XVII under 1 min
  21. XVIII. God leads his children with a gentle hand under 1 min
  22. XIX. So thought the mourner, watching o'er her dead under 1 min
  23. XX under 1 min
  24. XXI under 1 min
  25. XXII under 1 min
  26. XXIII. Thou art at rest, my husband! on thy head under 1 min
  27. XXIV about 1 min
  28. XXVI about 1 min
  29. XXVIII under 1 min
  30. XXIX under 1 min
  31. XXX under 1 min
  32. XXXI under 1 min
  33. XXXII under 1 min
  34. XXXIII under 1 min
  35. XXXIV under 1 min
  36. XXXV. AYhen nights of weariness do come to me about 44 min
  37. XXXVI under 1 min
  38. XXXVII. They told me she look'd beautiful in death about 14 min
  39. Xxxviii about 1 min
  40. XL under 1 min
  41. XLI under 1 min
  42. XLII under 1 min
  43. XLIII. God's providence had led his footsteps, where under 1 min
  44. XLIV about 1 h 21 min
  45. XLV under 1 min
  46. XLVII about 6 min
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Front matter

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Contents

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The Parted Familjr, - - - - - 13

To an Absent Husband, - - - - 21

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