 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!  Moral Aspects of City Life - Pagina 155door Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1853 - 191 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet 1 For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel,...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! " O! but for one short hour — A respite however brief I No blessed leisure for love or hope, But... | |
 | 1861 - 676 pagina’s
...spring. 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...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! J Cowper feelingly notes how those who never pass their brick-wall bounds to range the fields and... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pagina’s
...with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sw With the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short...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... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pagina’s
...ШЬепп. 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...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! *) 0 hot for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only... | |
 | 1847 - 800 pagina’s
...falling there. 0 ! 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...the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal!" work-house. Those who do such high sounding charities " have received their reward." The impoverished... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pagina’s
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 | 1844 - 858 pagina’s
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 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pagina’s
...primrose sweet, With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short honr To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! *) 0 bat for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bnt only... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pagina’s
...spring. Oh but to breathe tho breath Of tho cowslip and primrose sweet — Witli the sky nbttvo my head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one short hour To feel ax 1 used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! Oh but for one... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pagina’s
...Spring. " 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...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... | |
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