 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!  New York Illustrated Magazine Annual - Seite 4101847Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 Seiten
...caves, The brooding Swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the Spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love and Hope, But... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 Seiten
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! — A respite, however brief! — No blessed leisure for Love or... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal! " Oh, but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1853 - 204 Seiten
...the Spring. Oh ! but to breathe the breath, Of the primrose and cowslip sweet, With the sky above ray head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one...the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal. ******* Oh I men with sisters dear ! Oh ! men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 Seiten
...their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. "Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip anil primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head, And the...grass beneath my feet: For only one short hour To feel I\HI used to feel, Before 1 knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal! " Oh ! but for one... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 Seiten
...for some one every spring that wish so affectingly expressed by the poet of the poor sempstress, " Oh ! but to breathe the breath , Of the cowslip and...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Henceforth, you will add, I wish to occupy ujyself with what concerns the common people, with their... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 Seiten
...eaves The brooding swallows cling As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But... | |
 | Stephen SHIRLEY - 1855 - 210 Seiten
...eaves The brooding swallows cling As if to shew me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal. Oh ! but for one short hour, A respite, however brief, No blessed leisure for love nor hope, But only... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 Seiten
...The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " O ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " O ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope. But... | |
 | Solon Robinson - 1854 - 428 Seiten
...Through many a day and many a night, ' As prisoners work for crime ;' until she sighed and sung : " l Oh, for only one short hour, To feel as I used to feel,...the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal.' " " And did Walter do nothing ?" What could he do ? He knew nothing — had never learned to do. anything;... | |
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