 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!  Chambers's graduated readers - Strona 173autor: Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 410
...breath Of the birds'-eye and honey-dew, Or to change the mild routine That I underwent with the crew. For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew that monotonous fare, That unchanging, incessant meal. " Oh ! for one minute more, To get my stretcher... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - Liczba stron: 506
...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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - Liczba stron: 574
...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - Liczba stron: 568
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny bucks And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meall " Oh, but for one short hour ! A "respite however brief I No blessed leisure for Love or Hope,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - Liczba stron: 464
...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...For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, i Before I knew the woes of want " OhJ but for one short hourl A respite however brief! No blessed... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - Liczba stron: 610
...bright— While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, IX. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...my 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... | |
 | 1867 - Liczba stron: 514
...primrose, and the violet-bud, — They are the dearest flowers to me.|| Hood's sempstress utters her " Oh but to breathe the breath of the cowslip and primrose...the sky above my head, and the grass beneath my feet !''! And in some miscellaneous stanzas of his we read how he pluek'd the Primrose at night's dewy noon... | |
 | william harrison - 1867 - Liczba stron: 518
...primrose, and the violet-bud,— They are the dearest flowers to me.|| Hood's sempstress utters her " Oh but to breathe the breath of the cowslip and primrose...the sky above my head, and the grass beneath my feet !'4i And in some miscellaneous stanzas of his we read how he Like Hope, it show'd its blossoms in the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - Liczba stron: 544
...brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring. IX. " O ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet! Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal! x. " O! but for one short hour A respite,... | |
 | 1869 - Liczba stron: 620
...mute expression — and yet an expression stronger than any language could frame — of that longing ' to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above their heads, And the grass beneath their feet,' '53 which the town-bound poor feel — a longing which... | |
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