 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 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 t A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But... | |
 | Historical account - 1857 - 106 Seiten
...and band ; Band, gusset, and seam ; Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream ! Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, Or the walk that costs a meal ! Oh ! men with sisters dear, Oh ! men with mothers and wives, It is... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 Seiten
...The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring. 9. " Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the ^cowslip and...beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I us'd to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal! 10. Oh 1 but for one... | |
 | 1857 - 564 Seiten
...breathe the breath Of the heather aud gorse so sweet, With my wide-awake on my head, And my luncheon at my feet ! For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, After a morning's blaze at the birds, For an. appetite for my meal ! With patience threadbare worn,... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1857 - 406 Seiten
...trellised with roses ? If not, how shall he remember the beauty of the green fields, sighing — " Oh, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, kWith the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet !" thing like the architectural ones of the... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 Seiten
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...head, And the grass beneath my feet ! For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal... | |
 | 1859 - 316 Seiten
...Of the blankets around me again, With the curtains about my head, And nothing to think of the rain. For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the awful pangs Of the run before the meal. Oh ! but for one short hour, A respite however scant, No blessed... | |
 | 1864 - 206 Seiten
...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...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal. Oh ! liu t for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But... | |
 | Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 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,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 Seiten
...bright : While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, " 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... | |
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