| 1858 - 424 pages
...light: And write — write — write! When the weather is warm and bright ; While underneath the eavei The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their...sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! Ho blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for... | |
| Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 pages
...well as the weary hand. " Work— work — work, In the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While...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 ! " Oh ! but for one short hour... | |
| 1864 - 206 pages
...following lines, nor understand the wretched condition of the being whose misery is therein described ? "Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...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. Oh ! liu t for one short hour !... | |
| Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...d, As well as the weary hand. " Work ! work ! work ! In the dull December light ; And work ! work ! work ! When the weather is warm and bright ! While...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 ! " Oh, but for one short hour... | |
| England - 1860 - 532 pages
...weary hand. " Work — work — work, In the dull December light, And work — work — work, AYhen the weather is warm and bright — While underneath...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 ! " Oh, but for one short hour... | |
| Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...and the brain benumbed, " Work — work — work ! In the dull December tight, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While...breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With tile sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...well as the weary hand ! " Work — work — work I In the dull December light ; And work — work — work ! When the weather is warm and bright : While...swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet; With the sky above my head, And... | |
| 1860 - 582 pages
...Workman, No. C6. "I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, That it may seem their guilt." — Macbeth. "While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." " The Song of the Shirt." To which, perhaps, might be added the first six lines of Coleridge's " Sonnet... | |
| 1860 - 568 pages
...Workman, No. 6C. "I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, That it may seem their guilt." — Macbeth. " While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." " The Song of the Shirt." To which, perhaps, might be added the first six lines of Coleridge's " Sonnet... | |
| Ellen Barlee - 1860 - 262 pages
...devised for this malady, which appears now to have reached its fever point ? CHAPTER VII. lalf ag " Oh, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above her head, And the grass beneath her feet ! For only one short hour To feel as she used to feel, Before... | |
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