 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1871 - 822 pages
...sighings and aspirations come: ' Work — work — work, In the dull Deeember light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While...me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring, 0, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head. And... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...I work ! In the dull December light; And work ! work ! work ! When the weather is warm and blight! While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...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 1 Oh ! but for one short hour—•... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 pages
...as the weary hand ! 8. " Work — work — work ! In the dull December light ; And work — work — work ! When the weather is warm and bright; While...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. 9. " O, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...well as the weary hand ! 8. "Work— work— work, In the dull December light ; And work — work — work! When the weather is warm and bright : While...cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me wife the Spring. 9. "Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet ; Wife the sky... | |
 | Lydia Folger Fowler - 1863 - 250 pages
...suffering in its every form :— " ' O, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose twcct, AVith 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 woeb of a want, And the walk that costs a meal. " ' 0, but for one short hour,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...benumbed, 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...the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and... | |
 | 1863 - 150 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...underneath the eaves the brooding swallows cling, As if to shew their sunny backs, and twit me with the Spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath of the primrose... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1864 - 490 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...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " O ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1864 - 186 pages
...seen of the city, the more I have longed to be roaming in the country with my hazel stick. " I longed to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet." Grasping my hazel in my hand, I have visited the British Museum, with its almost endless curiosities,... | |
 | 1864 - 580 pages
...in a well-known passage, connects the swallow with the earlier of the two seasons : — " . . . .' underneath the eaves, The brooding swallows cling...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring." Hood's Song of Oic Shirt. ALFBED A iMri;. Alrewas, Lichfield. PSALM xc. 9. (3rd S. v. 57.)— The following... | |
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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! 
