 The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifting snow : Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone. " O God ! " she cried in accents wild, " If I must perish,...  The Bowdoin Poets - Seite 26von Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 188 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 264 Seiten
...wander'd with her child. As through the drifted snows she press'd The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, * In the month of December, 1821, a Mr. Blake, with his wife and an infant, were passing over the Green... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1833 - 150 Seiten
...wan-dered with her child. As through the drift-ed snow she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. 5. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night come on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow, — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone; " O... | |
 | 1834 - 438 Seiten
...her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And.colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow— Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone. "O God," she cried in accents wild,... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 Seiten
...wandered with her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew ths drifts of snow — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone-:"O God," she cried, in accents... | |
 | 1837 - 488 Seiten
...child — As through the drifting snow she presi'd, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder yet the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of enow— Her limbs were chill'd— her strength was gon«. Oh God ! she cried, in accents... | |
 | 1837 - 486 Seiten
...— As through the drifting snow she press'd, The babe \vas sleeping on her breast: , And colder yet the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And dcrprr L^rnw the drifts of snow — Heг lunhsVerc chill'd— her strength was gone. Oh Uod ! she cried,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 Seiten
...wander'd with her child; As through the drifting snow she press'd The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow. And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were chill'd, her strength was gone. " O God !" she cried, in accents... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 328 Seiten
...wander'd with her child : As through the drifting snow she press'd,. The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours...And deeper grew the drifting snow : Her limbs were chill'd, her strength was gone r " Oh, God !" she cried, in accents wild, " If I must perish, save... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...space— time — eternity. In the following stanza there is a demicacsura : And 'colder still | the wind did blow, And darker hours | of night came on ; And deeper grew | the drifts of snow, Her limbs were chilled, | her strength was gone. III. Sometimes, by design of the poet,... | |
 | 1841 - 376 Seiten
...wandered with her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone. " O God !" she cried, in accents... | |
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