Bright eyes in the flash of a moment Grow sad as the time nears to part, Tears well in the midst of the laughter, Unbidden as the showers in Spring.
THERE WILL COME A DAY There will come a day, sometime, When a bright light will shine through The clouds of darkness, sometime.
WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME Bright smiles and many tear drops Are begging loved ones stay; For not all soldier boys come home When bugles call today.
The April sun shines fine today, And all the world is bright and gay.
I have seen the flame azaleas at their bright hour of consummation in the hill country of central Georgia--lakes of tranquil and splendid fire spreading far away through the rough-barked colonnades of the pineries.
The life of the wind enters into her, and she begins to step over the waves and to cut through them, sending bright showers of spray from her bow, and leaving a swirling, bubbling, foaming wake astern.
He sat looking far away into the rosy heart of the fire, where the bright blaze had burned itself out, and the delicate flamelets of blue and violet were playing over the glowing, crumbling logs.
In the early morning of a bright September day, while the dew was still heavy on the leaves and the grass, and the gossamer cobwebs glistened with little diamonds, a hungry robin flew into the garden, and Tom heard the signal "Droop!
The bill is bright yellow and rather long, with the upper part curved and slightly hooked, for a good hold on slippery little fish.
His glowing face was bright with that cheerful air of humourous and sympathetic benevolence with which he seems to look upon all our human experiences of disappointment and success.
They settled themselves in the basket chairs, watching their hostess turn up the flame, under the bright copper pan, and measure out the coffee, which filled the air with its fragrance, delicate and refreshing.
Among the bright birds of passage was Lady Leason.
Then, with a bright face, she departed into the depths of the basement, picking her way with careful feet and a keen look-out for black beetles.
For, proud as she was in her mother's heart of the bright young girl with her clever brain, the rankling fact was hidden there--her offspring had outgrown the nest.
Jill turned with a bright face from the window in the corridor where she stood, gazing out.
The breeze had brought a bright colour into her cheeks, as they paced along, arm in arm, and she laughed aloud.
He opened the door and the bright light swept in, dazzling them.
His face was flushed from his hurried meal, his blue eyes bright with excitement.
He opened the door of his Aunt's boudoir, his eyes bright with the pain his smiling mouth concealed.
Early Victorian furniture, bright chintzes, modern china, photo frames, frilled cushions and a quantity of Benares work.
He left for London one bright day in late September, resolute to put an end to his "probation," seek out Jill and learn his fate.
She was like a child with a new toy, her still young face eager and brightunder her soft gray hair.
Each was crested with a knot of lofty palms, whose green tops stood out clear against the bright sky, while the lower half of their stems loomed hazy through a luminous veil of rainbowed mist.
Meanwhile the Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold, Came flashing back the noonday light, Rank behind rank, like surges bright Of a broad sea of gold.
Whether this came from her Eastern blood of the Arabs newly imported, and whether the cream color, mixed with our bay, led to that bright strawberry tint, is certainly more than I can decide, being chiefly acquaint with farm horses.
Common were forms and colors of bird, and fish, and butterfly, more strange and brightthan ever opium eater dreamed.
It was a bright spring morning, when a door leading to the yard in front of the house opened, and a young girl, bright and fresh as the morning's self, issued from it.
The lights within the lamp had expired; but the bright moonlight, streaming through the window, fell upon the rigid features of the unfortunate alchemist, and on the cabalistic characters of the open volume beside him.
On examining it, I found it contained a small quantity of a bright transparent liquid, which, poured forth into a glass, emitted precisely the same odour as the phial.
Its waters were once as clear and bright above London Bridge as they are now at Kew or Richmond; and its banks, from Whitefriars to Scotland Yard, were edged with gardens.
Thy skill superior let our monarchs own, And deem thee a bright jewel in their crown.
On the sign were printed the words "FOR RENT" in bright red letters.
She held her breath in rapture for there before her bright little eyes sat the cutest little brown house resting right on the big limb.
Just then she looked up at the patch of blue sky and her bright eyes caught sight of a small sign on the peak of the roof which she had not noticed before.
This young man was dressed in a fine suit of bright red cloth; and, as he tripped gayly along the road, he seemed to be as happy as the day.
It was bright and new, and George took great delight in going about and chopping things with it.
Yet beautiful and brighthe stood, As born to rule the storm-- A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
It was a very pretty bell, and was, pol-ished until it looked almost as bright and yellow as the sun.
It was a bright morning in the old city of Rome many hundred years ago.
But, oh, the bright simplicity of the life and the country along the way to Marathon!
I looked down and there, among the rankly growing grasses of the moat, I saw a young girl, very thin, her black hair hanging and bound with bright handkerchiefs, sketching vaguely a danse du ventre.
But the pines, more yellow than green, and the bright blue sea made the picture that lives in my memory.
They are of black wood, relieved with bosses and tiny statuettes of bright gold, and above each one is the half-length of a gilded and painted man, wearing a beard and holding a scroll.
Each man has his turban very gay, while each girl has a bright handkerchief which she drapes as she likes upon her arm, or carries in her hand.
The lamps gleamedbright with golden light as they drifted on the bosom of the great water, a moving line of living fire.
She is more beautiful than any blossom; her face is as delicate as the dusk; her hair is as night falling over the hills; her skin is as bright as the diamond.
The moon is so bright that you forget how late it is, and only remember how beautiful it is all around.
If we must die, let it be under the clear sky, by the bright waters, in noble, honorable battle!
We pushed our way forward to where, through the growing dusk of the woods, there glowed between the boles a soft green, seeming very bright after the dark, rusty green of these motionless trees.
The sheriff rolled his bright eye on Apache, misunderstanding his pleasure which, though it sounded something exaggerated, was assuredly genuine enough.
This is quite correct, and this fine curve of bright stars may be seen at a glance on a clear night in September, when all the stars are high in the sky.
No trace of bright nebular lines are present, so that the interstellar space in the Andromeda nebula, just as in our stellar system, is not appreciably occupied by gaseous matter.
Morin saw the same bright star half an hour after sunset in March, 1635.
He thinks that the difference between "bright line" stars and those showing dark lines depends upon the rate of increase of the temperature from the surface towards the centre.
The first of these is thebright star [Greek: a] Phoenicis, of which the magnitude is 2.
Both of these stars are mentioned by Al-Sufi, but he says nothing of any bright star (or indeed any star) between them.
Luminous clouds" are bright clouds sometimes seen at night near the end of June and beginning of July.
Pickering concludes that a meteor as bright as a third magnitude star, composed of iron or stone, would probably have a diameter of 6 or 7 inches.
In the great nebulae in Orion 30 bright lines have been photographed.
The asteroid approached the orbit of Venus, but the bright planet was some distance away, at its greatest elongation to the east of the sun.
Rip found the constellation Orion and looked at bright Rigel.
There was too much lace and ribbon, too many bright and gaudy colours, too much flutter and contrast, to be perfectly ladylike.
It was a handsome animal, of a bright bay colour, about fifteen hands and a half high, strongly built, yet showing a good deal of blood, and its coat was as soft and shining as satin.
Yet towards the east there was a bright streak of gold, which told that the star of light, and warmth, and genial influences, was coming up rapidly from below the round edge of the rolling ball.
Do you not see the bright assurance of warmer and mellower days to come in that chequered April sky?
The colouring would have been almost that of autumn, so bright and manifold were the tints upon the wood, had it not been for a certain tenderness of aspect which spoke of youth and not decay.
The sun shone bright in Stephen Gimlet's cottage for a couple of hours after dawn, till about an hour before evening's close.
At a dismal saloon, where water was nearly as expensive and quite as bad as the whisky, we learned that a bright bay colt with a white star and stocking, and another with a white nose, had been seen early that morning.
Hills and plains lay beneath bright blue skies, into which we gazed day after day, week after week, looking for the cloud that never came.
Mintie stared at his bright eyes and flushed cheeks.
It was certain that Johnnie's curly hair, brightblue eyes, and stalwart figure had captivated her fancy.
Fancy him staring from the window at a fence bright with theatrical posters, or at a man rushing by on a bicycle!
The notions of political equality which Mr. Bright puts forward are as old as political speculation, and have been refuted by the first efforts of that speculation.
You're a bright boy, Harry, and you're learning fast.
Yet the dark eyes werebright and gay, sparkling with kindliness and the love of pleasure.
He saw a rather slender man with wonderfully bright eyes that smiled much, a prominent and pronounced nose and a strong chin.
This troop of his was his pride, and he sought always to keep it bright and sharp like a polished sword blade.
The twilight had now merged into night, but there was a bright sky and plenty of stars, and they saw well.
Far off were the dim blue mountains that enclosed it on either side, and the bright skies never bent in a more brilliant curve.
There was nothing bright or spectacular about him.
The sun again was yellow and bright in a clear blue sky, and soon the day would be warm.
He could not resist the bright light and the happy talk about him.
But Jackson had seen and in a few hours of contact he had read the brave, bright young soul of his aide.
And now the intellect, become her friend, remains free and full of certain Truth, even as the atmosphere is rendered pure and bright by the shining of the midday Sun.
I praise her on the part of the body, and I say that in her aspect bright gleams appear which show us pleasant things, and amongst others those of Paradise.
Though Heaven, you know, is ever bright and pure, Eyes may have cause to find a star obscure.
Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night, he excels, both in fancy and in exaggeration, all the ancient poets; but it was they who began the practice of likening eyes to bright lights.
But if they fancy a bridal tour, away they go several hundred miles, with the grass for their pillow, the canopy of heaven for their curtains, and the bright stars to watch over them.
Twist and turn them whichever way you please, on returning afterward you will find them all facing the beloved sun again with their bright corollas and glossy surface.
Many a spark of love kindled at sight of a pretty face and bright eyes is extinguished after a short acquaintance which reveals a cold and selfish character.
He was sobright and resplendent to look upon that she was abashed; she modestly hung down her head and uttered not a word.
This we should expect naturally, since in the race as in the child the pleasure in bright baubles must long precede the pleasure in beautiful faces or figures.
Female life among the Hurons had nobright side," wrote Parkman (J.
After many windings, they were amongst hanging boughs again which swept the top of their palm cabin, and the next minute were clear, with the bright stars overhead and the boat being carried seaward by the rushing stream.
The baroness was a bright and kindly woman, and her daughters charming girls, though with some little of their father's pride of ancestry.
There was wind coming, however, for the clouds were racing across the sky under the bright moon.
The morning was bright as we left Geneva, but the roads, until we struck the State road, were rough and still muddy from the recent rains.
The gasoline for sale at country stores is usually all right, but it is handled in all sorts of receptacles; the only safe way is to ask for a bright and new dipper and let the store-keeper guess at the measure.
Without saying a word, the bright and too willing mechanic who was assisting, mainly by looking on, took the new chain into his shop and cut off a link.
Nowadays we see just so much of nature as the camera sees and no more; our vision is but surface deep, our eyes are but two clear, bright lenses with nothing behind, not even a dry plate to record the impressions.
The morning wasbright and very warm, scarcely a cloud in the sky, but there was a feeling of storm in the air,--the earth was restless.
Said to be a certain kind of fish that was ornamented about its tailend with a band of bright color; therefore an object of admiration and desire.
Another instance of name-giving, applied to the brightclouds that seem to rest on the horizon, especially to the west.
The halau also they decorate afresh, strewing the floor with clean rushes, until the whole place enthralls the senses like a bright and fragrant temple.
They resemble two large bright diamonds set in a bow like a pair of spectacles.
Bright colors are the delight of the African race, and a grand display of any kind has a wonderful effect on their imagination.
I don't know how the valley will be when I get to it, but it is all bright now.
How close his eyes on all the bright years of the future!
The fort stood out in bold relief, the bright noon-sun shining full upon its southern face, fronting the shallow water towards Morris Island, leaving in shadow its eastern wall toward Moultrie.
The horizon was bright with fiery arches, crossing each other at all angles, cut horizontally by streams of fire from rifled cannon.
Stout hearts have fought for that bright flag, Strong hands sustained it masthead high, And O, to see how proud it waves, Brings tears of joy to every eye!
While around the bright flashes, clouds of smoke, and heavy thunderings brought to mind the gorgeous imagery of Revelation, descriptive of the last judgment.
Others wore bright bocking, which had evidently been furnished from a merchant's stock.
Far up the streets there werebright flashes from the muskets of the Rebels, who fired from cellars, chamber windows, and from sheltered places.
One bright fellow of twenty had on a pair of trousers only, and tried to keep himself warm by drawing around him a tattered blanket.
The Greek fire is not extinguished; it burns to-day as bright and pure as ever at Salamis or Marathon.
