{"1": {"fulltext": "7 5^", "height": "3212", "width": "2367", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Hollinger Corp.\\npH 8.5", "height": "3174", "width": "2220", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "PS 3533\\nU7 S6\\n1900\\nCopy 1\\n$onnet$\\n5^", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3174", "width": "2220", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3t^\\nJ\\n-tiU^-A^ v.\\nCopyrtghted igoo\\nBy Edward Quintard.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Office of thd\\n9 61900\\nkcgist\u00c2\u00abr of CopyMgBlIB\\nT6 3^^^\\n60095\\nSECOND COPY.", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "5o J\u00c2\u00a3. lb. (SI.\\nF these poor words of mine, born of\\nunrest,\\nFind in thy heart, my love, one mo-\\nment s rest,\\nThen without tear or sigh\\nThey are content to die,\\nHaving achieved, my love, their journey s quest.\\nIf these stray lines of mine, coming to thee,\\nBreathe one fair thought, my love, coming from me,\\nThey have not lived in vain,\\nNor do they ask again\\nTime to be heeded, or given a plea.\\nIf in this book of mine, thou canst but trace\\nE en but a line that reflects thy sweet face,\\nNaught that the world may say\\nCan my poor Muse dismay,\\nAnd for my song must the world find a place.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "^be Sonnet\\nSONNET is a little plot of ground\\nIn which the poet may pluck a dainty\\nflower\\nOr yet a golden vase all rimmed\\naround\\nWith his sweet fancies; or yet again a bower\\nIn which for one short moment he may find repose.\\nAnd yet methinks, within this narrow space\\nDoth dwell more sweetness than the whole world\\nknows;\\nFor as a gem that shows its lustrous face\\nUpon the whiteness of some fair one s breast,\\nReveals a two-fold beauty and a grace\\nWhich all alone would be unmanifest,\\nSo in the sonnet, where the mind may trace\\nThe double beauty of the poet s bequest,\\nTo th ear sweet music and the heart solace.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "^0 je, lb. (SI.\\nEAR one, whose calm endurance of\\nlong pain\\nHath taught in silence what no word\\nmay say;\\nWhose sweet assurance under sorrow s\\nbane\\nFulfills life s greatest lesson day by day;\\nThy patient fortitude in hours of stress,\\nWhen friends seem failing and the truth is spurned,\\nDoth never falter, nor in grief s distress\\nIs thy brave heart from justice ever turned.\\nScornful of wrong, despising all things mean,\\nThy mind on gentle ministrations bent\\nRises above all strife, and thus serene\\nAwaits love s labor with a calm content;\\nThy only thought, the crowning of thy creed,\\nThe sweet fulfillment of a noble deed.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Zo a S)ai0\\\\\\nREAT bards have sung thy praises\\nlittle flower,\\nAnd greater yet to come shall thy\\nsweet name avow;\\nAnd man} a king had given all his\\npower\\nCould he have been as blithe and free as thou.\\nA thousand spring-times dance within thine eye,\\nDear little earth-star of the summer fields,\\nAnd thy meek face uplifted to the sky\\nReveals a beauty which all nature yields\\nTo those, whose lowly lives in gentle ways,\\nUnfretted by the pomp of witless pride,\\nMove onward to the fulness of their days;\\nTheir faith unshaken and their hope as wide\\nAs the clear sky, which over man and flower\\nSheds the calm light of an eternal power.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "flDan an^ Opportunity\\nHY sit we idle, musing on the hour,\\nWhat craven thought doth bind us at\\nits will\\nHave we no strength to smite against\\nits power.\\nKnowing that love and hope are with us still\\nTime gives the opportunity to man\\nTo shape his life for evil or for good;\\nAnd he himself must use it whilst he can.\\nElse will it perish in that mighty flood\\nOf days and hours, seasons and lost years.\\nO er which men wail, and in bewailing lose\\nThe chance to rise up from their cringing fears\\nTo that achievement, which through sad abuse\\nOf heart and mind hath loitered on the way,\\nBut which attained, heralds the new-found day.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "SoUtube\\nE that would know the sweetness of\\nthe hour,\\nWhen free from noisy tongue and\\njarring strife\\nHis spirit feels the calm content of\\npower,\\nMust seek still solitude and breathe its life.\\nYet not in cloistered walls nor lonely cell\\nDoth its calm presence soothe the restless heart;\\nNor doth its spirit cast its magic spell\\nWhere destiny of man hath played a part;\\nBut where the silver-sandalled moon her way\\nAcross the sleeping sea in silence seeks,\\nOr where the planet-lights resplendent play\\nLike altar fires round some starlit peak;\\nThere, in the solemn silence of the hour,\\nIs solitude, imperial in its power.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00aen IRcceipt of a Xtttle BooFi\\nHOU sweet enchantress garbed in\\ngreen and gold,\\nWhat magic have thy lingering notes\\nfor me\\nIn them I hear the troubadours of old,\\nThe whispering wind and murmur of the sea;\\nThe song of spring, the skylark s note at morn,\\nThe huntsman s merry shout, the cataract s fall,\\nThe tread of armored men, and clang of horn\\nWhere knights hold revel in some ancient hall.\\nThe dreamy hush of eve steals o er the fields,\\nThe maiden s sigh, the lover s dulcet tune\\nSteals from some bower which the darkness shields,\\nWhilst high o erhead doth ride the harvest moon;\\nThus hast thou often charmed my grief away.\\nAnd with sweet magic Winter turns to May.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "^0 a Crow\\nORD of the stubble and the up-\\nploughed field,\\nBold highwayman of man s well tilled\\ndemesne,\\nWho levies toll and makes proud Nature yield;\\nImpudent rascal with a clerk-like mien,\\nDefier of the seasons change and time.\\nWhose ancient council antedates the law\\nOf Saxon-witan or Cumaean rhyme.\\nAnd thinks man s work is but to fill thy craw;\\nThy melancholy plumage gainst the sky\\nThe burnished day in silhouette doth draw,\\nWhilst perched upon some leafless tree on high\\nThou utterest thy long-drawn plaintive caw.\\nThou guest of summer and the winter snow,\\nInquisitive and daring wise old Crow.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "riDutabilit^\\nHEN I behold the constant change of\\nthings,\\nHow nature blooms and passes to\\ndecay,\\nHow seasons come and go and what\\ntime brings,\\nAnd know that what now is must pass away;\\nWhen I have seen the warring elements\\nBeat down and shatter mighty cliffs of stone,\\nHave seen the rain and flood destroy stern battlements,\\nAnd earth reclaim their dust again its own;\\nWhen on the walls of gray antiquity\\nUprise th flowers of this year s gentle spring,\\nAnd when those things on which men carve their\\ndestiny\\nTake flight, swift as the swallow on the wing,\\nThen do I know that only Truth and Love\\nMay live, where years and time alone can prove.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Zo flDi? flDotber\\nRIEND of my youth and of my later\\ndays,\\nWho knew my childish bent and\\nwhat I would attain;\\nWhose loss was ne er my loss, whose\\ngain was e er my gain;\\nGuide of my better self and mentor of my ways;\\nE en now, as life s perplexity and deeper care\\nOft seem a barrier to a happy day resought.\\nWhen to an open heart and mind fair Nature taught\\nThose first great lessons, which for sterner paths\\nprepare,\\nMethinks I hear thy voice call through the rising\\nnight\\nIn sweet solicitude unto my burdened heart:\\nDespair not, ever on, thou shalt achieve thy part;\\nNay, lift up but thine eyes and thou shalt see the\\nlight.\\nAnd thus the voice, heard first in childhood s day,\\nGuides now the man unto the better way.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "(^oncor^\\nRADLE of Freedom and the New\\nWorld s thought,\\nConcord, whose soil is hallowed by\\nthe dust\\nOf those, who never knew the un-\\ntempered lust\\nOf power; men whom the calmer reason taught\\nThat to think nobly one must nobly live,\\nWhose mighty purpose with a holy deed\\nWas ever sealed, whilst for their country s need\\nSteadfast they strove, and striving did achieve\\nDear Town, whose happy bells their evening hymn\\nChime o er the meadows, to that placid stream\\nWhich wanders ever on, like some fair dream\\nNow seen in quiet splendor, now grown dim;\\nLive on in peace and let the long-gone day\\nPoint men to duty and the better way.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "OULDER of nations; stern mentor of\\nmankind\\nAdversity, grim mother of the great,\\nHarsh nurse of genius and the master\\nmind,\\nAustere as winter and pitiless as fate;\\nMaker of heroes and of deathless songs,\\nAt whose harsh knee the mighty sons of earth\\nWere schooled, and taught the lesson of their wrongs;\\nBeneath whose feet the psalms of life took birth.\\nThy rude blood flows within the veins of those\\nWho dare attempt the pinnacle of fame,\\nNor dost thou let thy children know repose\\nUntil thy dictates conquered, they achieve a name.\\nRelentless ruler of the human race,\\nThey know thy worth who meet thee face to face.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Bccompltsbment\\nHE day is lost that knows not some\\ngood deed,\\nBe it the noble mind or the undaunted\\nheart,\\nThat writes its act upon the eternal chart\\nOf time, it matters not, if but the creed\\nFrom which it draws its strength is fair and just.\\nFor he who seeks to carve his fame on stone.\\nHis name shall pass away and be unknown\\nBefore the shaft which mocks him turns to dust;\\nBut as man s language doth survive his race,\\nSo his good deeds anticipate far time,\\nAnd thus outlive the long-forgotten clime\\nWhich gave him being, and perchance a place.\\nFor history is not of days or years.\\nBut of man s hopes and faith, his joys and tears.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Zo Bab^ 3. (SI.\\nE A, thou art beautiful and wondrous fair\\nDear child, thy parents happy count-\\nerpart,\\nWho in thee see the wishes of their\\nheart,\\nThe fond fulfillment of an earnest prayer.\\nSweet pledg-e of God unto the world new-given;\\nFresh and unblemished as th flower at dawn,\\nWhose petals opening to the light of heaven.\\nReflects a loveliness no poet hath drawn.\\nDear little child, whose tiny world doth grow\\nFrom day to day with each increasing need,\\nWhose happy innocence again doth sow\\nNew hope in hearts worn with life s sterner creeds.\\nThy love is ours, and we again in you\\nRenounce old age and find our life anew.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "fIDemorp\\nHE sunlight streaming over ruined\\ntowers,\\nStaining with dying spenders where\\nit falls,\\nSpeaks the new life unto the passing hours.\\nThus doth soft music stir through ancient halls.\\nSweet the remembrance of departed years.\\nDear, ah, how dear the last fond lingering kiss;\\nWild the regret and bitter deep the tears\\nThat speak to us of other days than this.\\nTis thus Time leaves our lives a broken lute\\nO er which sad memory plays its scattered strain.\\nSobbing its burthen to our hearts all mute.\\nTears start to tired eyes and once again,\\nIn life s hushed choir and deserted ways\\nEcho the voices of departed days.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "%\\\\ncQ on flD^ Birtb^a^\\nNOTHER year hath gone, another\\ncome;\\nAnd what hast thou accomplished\\nfor the boon?\\nWhat hast thou yet to show, what\\nlittle sum\\nOf worth; or is it yet, alas! too soon?\\nUp, up my heart! long hast thou loitered on th* way;\\nToo much hast thou turned from the bitter fight,\\nLeft undone many things, forgot to-day,\\nThought too much of the morrow and its might.\\nTherefore gird on new strength and rouse unto the\\ntask;\\nRenew thy hope, let faith be found in work;\\nLet not the love of ease be cause to shirk\\nStern duty; let no rightful need twice ask\\nThy bounty; but each act, let it be heir\\nUnto a thought whose cause is just and fair.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00aen tbe :Beeinntng of a IRew l!?ear\\njHAT are these things that men call\\ndays and years\\nWhat is this Time that holds imperial\\nsway\\nOver the human heart, its joys and\\ntears\\nWhat mean these years o er which we laugh and pray?\\nAre they the fragile cord on which men thread\\nTheir little deeds of evil and of good,\\nOr the mad whirlpool in which Hope lies dead,\\nAt which Love stands bereft and destitute\\nWhat are these things brave heart to thee? Still, still\\nPress onward through the world of fret and care;\\nLet faith guide duty, and each day fulfill\\nThe work allotted to its rightful share.\\nThen will a year seem but a day s sweet heritage,\\nAnd time, a step on life s eternal pilgrimage.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "^0 a 2)ea^ f ielb HDouse\\nOOR little thing hast thou met fate\\nso soon\\nToo often didst thou trust the human\\nheart.\\nFrom Nature didst thou ask thy tiny\\nboon,\\nTwas ruthless man who crushed thee at the start.\\nThou hadst a home; God giveth such to all,\\nEven the humblest. Ah me, the cruel wait\\nOf those small mouths, at whose untimely call\\nThou wentest forth, leaving thy loving mate.\\nAlas the blow O worse than thoughtless man,\\nSo swift to take what thou canst ne er return.\\nThy rashness hath usurped the mighty plan\\nWhich only fools and madmen dare to spurn.\\nThe humblest life which Nature doth design\\nHath its just reason and its cause divine.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "ZTbe jevenina Star\\nHOU darling of the crimson-tinted\\nWest,\\nThou lovely star, resplendent as a gem,\\nWhose lustrous fire upon the swelling\\nbreast\\nOf Ocean burns unquenched; of the bright diadem\\nWhich crowns the calm, majestic brow of Night,\\nThou art the brightest of its orbs by far.\\nThe pallid splendor of thy jeweled light\\nGleams like the beacon on some distant bar.\\nGuiding the weary mariner to rest.\\nWhen on my life the darkening shadows fall,\\nAnd to attain seems but an idle quest,\\nTeach me to be as thou art, calm in all;\\nLet me not fail through any sad despair,\\nKnowing that He who guides thee hears my prayer.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Evenino\\nHE sun goes down beneath the glow-\\ning West,\\nThe hour, beautiful and wondrous fair,\\nFalls like a benediction on the\\nbreathless air,\\nWhilst heart and mind responsive seek their rest;\\nUpon the darkling waters of the sea,\\nThe lights all glorified stream from afar,\\nAnd in the distance the pale evening star\\nGleams with a deep and solemn mystery.\\nO matchless hour, when earth and sea and sky\\nIn sweet accord unite in holy symphony,\\nAnd all fair Nature breathes in solemn ecstasy,\\nThrilled by the touch of an immortal tie.\\nThen doth man s spirit walk in calm delight.\\nClothed in the strength of an eternal might.", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "1", "height": "3066", "width": "2210", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3229", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "sonnets00quin_0052.jp2"}}