 | James Harcourt West - 1894 - 124 Seiten
...ambitious feet, secure and proud, Ascends the ladder leaning on the cloud! " Youth-time ! 0 youth-time ! "Ah, that thou couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy! " And thy joy not only, but thy opportunity as well ; and that thou couldst learn of will-power, and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1895 - 584 Seiten
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat : All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work...Quick and treacherous sands of sin. Ah ! that thou eouldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy ! MY PSALM I MOURN no more my vanished years: Beneatli... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 602 Seiten
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat. All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work...couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy! THE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO SOUTHERN BONDAGE GONE, gone, — sold... | |
 | 1896 - 532 Seiten
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat : All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work...couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy! SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE OF all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, —... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 618 Seiten
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat. All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod. Like a colt's for work...they sink not in Quick and treacherous sands of sin. Ahl that thou couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy! THE FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1896 - 392 Seiten
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat : All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, 96 Made to tread the mills of toil, Up and down in ceaseless moil ; Happy if their track be found Never... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896 - 268 Seiten
...Long live the good school ! giving out year by year Recruits to true manhood and womanhood dear. 7. Ah ! that thou couldst know thy joy Ere it passes, barefoot boy. 8. Not to him who rashly dares, But to him who nobly bears, Is the victor's garland sure. LESSON XL.... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 Seiten
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat ; All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work...couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy ! MULLEK. ! He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees, Of the singing birds and the humming bees... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 328 Seiten
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat: All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work...couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boy! XXXI. THE BROWN DWARF OF RUGEN. • Bv JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. THE pleasant isle of Rugen looks the... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 338 Seiten
...Shall the cool wind kiss the heat: All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work...thou couldst know thy joy, Ere it passes, barefoot boyl XXXI. THE BROWN DWARF OF RUGEN. By JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. THE pleasant isle of Riigen looks... | |
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All too soon these feet must hide In the prison cells of pride, Lose the freedom of the sod, Like a colt's for work be shod, Made to tread the mills of toil, Up and down in ceaseless moil... 
