 Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!  The advanced reader - Pàgina 55per Scottish school-book assoc - 1863Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pàgines
...The brooding swallows cling. As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " O! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet 1 For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that... | |
 | 1861 - 676 pàgines
...what is this to the mortal desperation of Work — work— -work When the weather is warm and bright, While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling As if to show me then- sunny backs And twit me with the spring. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of -the cowslip and primrose... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pàgines
...work ! In the dull December light, And work— work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sw With the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pàgines
...Cell ! wenn unter ben 2)a$rtnnen bie brutenben Sdjroalben jwitfdjern, 208 -Dos Sieb bet ШЬепп. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! *) 0 hot for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only... | |
 | 1847 - 800 pàgines
...table — a broken cbair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there. 0 ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal!" work-house. Those who do such high sounding charities " have received their reward." The impoverished... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pàgines
...In the dull December light ! And work — work — work ! When the weather is warm and bright—« ՃS \ <Ǫ+ p vc{ . c ` c%! iGt V4 . v u gÐ| [... 2jHɥ u :^ ]X :V R fU Q[ kB * { - XwQ YhF I +> gross beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pàgines
...In the dull December light, And work — work — work — When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my bead, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel,' Before I knew... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pàgines
...Work! work! work! In the dull December light, And work! Work! work! When the weather is warm and bright While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling...me their .sunny backs And twit me with the spring '**). *) ©cb,affe! Waffe! fcíjuffe! 50tcme7írbett §6rt nimmer auf; unb пае ifl if)t Coijn? (Sin... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pàgines
...the spring. Oh but to breathe tho breath Of tho cowslip and primrose sweet — Witli the sky nbttvo my head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one short hour To feel ax 1 used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! Oh but for one... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pàgines
...work, In the dull December light ; And work — work — work ! When the weather is warm and bright : While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But... | |
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