 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 pages
...after, read what was written and escaped the danger. LVII.— KOCK ME TO SLEEP. MRS. ELIZABETH AKERS. 1. Backward, turn backward, O Time! in your flight, Make...slumbers your loving watch keep — Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! 2. Backward, flow backward, O swift tide of years ! I am weary of toil,... | |
 | 1868 - 220 pages
...strife cease, And every heart be filled-with peace. Julie Leonard. (85) ROCK ME TO SLEEP. JACKWARD — turn backward, O Time ! in your flight: Make me a...slumbers your loving watch keep ; Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years ! I am so weary of toils and... | |
 | Galveston, Author of Milly Clifford - 1868 - 276 pages
...softly, its bright billows sweep, Book me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Backward, turn backward, oh time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night. Mother ! come back from that echoless shore — Take me again to your heart as of yore. Kiss from my forehead, the furrows... | |
 | E. Wadham - 1869 - 176 pages
...qualified to rank as revert, the others not, unless purposely so constrained. Backward, turn backward, oh Time, in your flight, * Make me a child again just for to-night, Mother, come back from the echolesa shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore, Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...must, Consign to thee, and come to dust. SHAKESPEARE. ROCK ME TO SLEEP. BACKWARD, turn backward, 0 iam Cullen Bryant mother, — rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of the years ! I am so weary of toil... | |
 | Ellen Clutton-Brock - 1871 - 336 pages
...intensity of longing, sharper than any that she had felt since his death. " Backward, turn backward, oh Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again, just...Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the silver threads out of my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, Rock me to sleep, Mother,... | |
 | Ellen Clutton Brock - 1871 - 446 pages
...intensity of longing, sharper than any that she had felt since his death. " Backward, turn backward, oh Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again, just...Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the silver threads out of my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, Rock me to sleep, Mother,... | |
 | Mrs. Carey Brock - 1871 - 192 pages
...intensity of longing sharper than any that she had felt since his death. " Backward, turn backward, 0 Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again, just...the echoless shore, ¡ . Take me again to your heart ae of yore. Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the silver threads out of my hair ; -<^j... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...escaped the danger. LVII.— ROCK ME TO SLEEP. MRS. ELIZABETH AKERS. 1. Backward, turn backward, 0 Time! in your flight, Make me a child again, just...slumbers your loving watch keep — Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! 2. Backward, flow backward, 0 swift tide of years* 1 I am weary of toil,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1872 - 542 pages
...much. Bears patiently the wrong and pain of years, But breaks at Love's first touch I ROCK ME TO SLEEP. BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night 1 Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my... | |
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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 my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out... 
