In these times of deepest desertion I am selfish enough to feel a longing desire for a ray of light or a smile from the countenance of Him, under whose banner I have many times sat with the greatest delight in days that are past.

When they looked back, they could see the ancient darkey gazing with longing glances, as if he might be tempted to chase after them.

Action is bubbling up within our souls; The woods oppress us more than stony streets; That was the life indeed; this is the dream; Summer is too complete for growing hearts; They need a broken season, and a land With shadows pointing ever far away; Where incompleteness rouses longing thoughts With spires abrupt, and broken spheres, and circles Cut that they may be widened evermore:

Fortune from visions of the night Has brought him to my longing sight.

But if that price be a mean or a wicked one, and if we should scorn ourselves were we ever tempted to pay it, then we must not even cast one longing look of regret towards things which can only be got by that which we deliberately refuse to give.

She could not look into his set longing face without feeling that he was speaking true words.

"Nor weens he who it is, whose charms consume His longing soul, but loves he knows not whom"Addison cor.

Bow down those branches, that the longing taste, Of the faint looker on, may meet those blessings, And taste and live.

A heart which seeks, feels well that it wants something; a heart which has lost, feels that something is goneits yearning and its longing change into uneasy impatienceand a woman's spirit, which is accustomed to waiting and to enduring, must now pass out from its proper sphere, must become active and attempt and do something to make its own happiness.

Some of the sailors, mounted on the ratlines of the fore-shrouds, uttered longing cries.

" "Many times when a certain longing curiosity about these strange objects has come over me, I have envied the traveler who sees such marvels in living, everyday connection with other marvels.

"And aye with that luxurious fire you fed Your dangerous longing daily, crumb by crumb; Nor ever cared that still above your head The shadow grew; for that your lips were dumb.

these ills by timely prudent care Prevent: for every longing dame select Some happy paramour; to him alone In leagues connubial join.

Then of that legion none stood idle, none Gaped listless at the herd, with naught to do: But one drew near and milked them, binding clogs Of wood with leathern thongs around their feet: One brought, all hungering for the milk they loved, The longing young ones to the longing dams.

And the answer you give to my longing distress Is that word, with a blush and a kiss, that word "Yes."

Thy road is ready; and thy paths made straight With longing expectation wait The consecration of thy beauteous feet.

The rising moon shines mild and fair; More bright is she, whose beauty rare My heart with longing fills.

He craves for a broader life, but he is surrounded by such a social atmosphere as to make his longing futile.

" Roger gave a sniff, but the girls knew from his longing gaze that he was quite as eager as they to fit it up for a day camp even if he was nearly eighteen and going to college next autumn.

But, I fancy, new longings Thy heart have stirred.

Ambition faints from out the will; Asleep sad longing lies; All hope of good, all fear of ill, All need of action dies; Because God is; and claims the life He kindled in thy brain; And thou in Him, rapt far from strife, Diest and liv'st again.

"Ye gallant winds, if e'er your LUSTY CHEEKS Blew longing lover to his mistress' side, O, puff your loudest, spread the canvas wide," is spirited.

This when I saw, inquisitive to know The secret moral of the mystic show, 460 I started from my shade, in hopes to find Some nymph to satisfy my longing mind: And as my fair adventure fell, I found A lady all in white, with laurel crown'd, Who closed the rear, and softly paced along, Repeating to herself the former song.

" Whitney studied his flushed face, his lowered eyes, reflected carefully on the longing note in the voice in which he had made that statement, a note that changed it to a question.

Trying to do goodas long as doing good does not hurt them in the world's eyes; but longing oftener and oftener to do wrong, if only God would not be angry.