 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pàgines
...tarry long and late; Prize your spring till it be past, Only, only love me last! BOCK ME TO SLEEP. BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as ot yore; Kiss from my forehead... | |
 | 1898 - 712 pàgines
...Herts. WB GERISH. SOURCE oí' QUOTATION.—Where can I find these lines ?— Backward, turn backward, О time, in your flight ; Make me a child again Just for to-night. I have an idea they occur in a poem of Eliza Cook's. JA. S. Kilburn. ITALIAN LAW.—What is the heaviest... | |
 | 1861 - 144 pàgines
...And makes them fresh, and fair, and green Sweet homes wherein to live and die. JameiJtutKll Lowell BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight ! Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore • Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from... | |
 | 1861 - 712 pàgines
...idolized, answered, "I am now bound for heaven, and I take the stars IN MY WAT." ROCK ME TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time ! in your flight, Make me a child again — just for to night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss... | |
 | 1861 - 404 pàgines
...sacrificed, the teacher's duty is plain. Hang the rebels, and save the country. H. ROCK ME TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time! in your flight, Make me a child again—just for to night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, v Take me again to your heart... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - 1862 - 252 pàgines
...sank into forgetful ness, repeating over and over those .sweet strains: " Backward, turn backward. 0 Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Over my slumbers... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - 1864 - 244 pàgines
...sank into forgetfulness, repeating over and over those sweet strains : " Backward, turn backward, 0 Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Over my slumbers... | |
 | Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds - 1865 - 414 pàgines
...in those nights of torturing fever and days of languor and despondency : Backward, turn backward, 0 Time, in your flight; Make me a child again, just for to-night I Mother, O come from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Over my slumbers... | |
 | Lydia M. Millard - 1865 - 276 pàgines
...whole heart in an imploring wail and impassioned prayer, as she sings, — " Backward, turn backward, 0 Time in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night; Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore." I hear, through... | |
 | Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds - 1865 - 410 pàgines
...in those nights of torturing fever and days of languor and despondency: Backward, turn backward, 0 Time, in your flight; Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, 0 come from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Over my slumbers... | |
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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart, as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of... 
