Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are... The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby - Seite 261von Charles Kingsley - 1864 - 310 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 Seiten
...And the wisdom of our books, When compared with their caresses, And the gladness of their looks. They are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said, For they are living poems, And all the rest are dead." Children are born into the natural world in order... | |
| 1868 - 100 Seiten
...play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. For what are all our contri Tinge , And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. WGS l'íS N PUBLIC : ) } .J;.-lt ». «V» IN» l j ч- .\ •. • ....N- j LONDON PRIDE AND GOLDEN... | |
| 1876 - 396 Seiten
...children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. Now is not this a very beautiful song ? Many children little know how deeply they are loved by their... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 Seiten
...children ; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of...living poems, And all the rest are dead. LONGFELLOW. MORAL BEAUTY. 'Tls not alone in the flush of morn, In the cowslip-bell, or the blossom thorn, In noon's... | |
| S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 Seiten
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrirings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks f Ye are better than all the ballads That were ever sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 Seiten
...children I And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. " For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." " Children may teach us one blessed, one enviable art — the art of being easily happy. Kind nature... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 Seiten
...And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what arc all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books,...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. MY LOST YOUTH. OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 Seiten
...children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of...with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks P Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all... | |
| 1859 - 440 Seiten
...whisper in my car WhaUhe birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what arc all onr contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared...with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Yc are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 Seiten
...whisper in my ear What the hirds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. 107 For what arc all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with jour caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung... | |
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