 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...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...the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet 1 For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that... | |
 | 1861 - 676 pagina’s
...the eaves The brooding swallows cling As if to show me then- 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 ! 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
...backs, And twit me 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...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... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pagina’s
...Cell ! wenn unter ben 2)a$rtnnen bie brutenben Sdjroalben jwitfdjern, 208 -Dos Sieb bet ШЬепп. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...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
...table — a broken cbair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there. 0 ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...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... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pagina’s
...©aum, biè baé £ег& etfranítunb baí ®e^írn erftarrt, fo nnc аиф bie mübt фапЬ. : У Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...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 ! *)... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pagina’s
...eaves The brooding swallows cling. As if to show me their sunny backs. And twit me with the spring. eÌ) jr :X7- 2 < g H1 G 2jHɥ u :^ ]X :V R fU Q[ kB * { - XwQ YhF I +> gross beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pagina’s
...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 primrose sweet — With the sky above my bead, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel,' Before I knew... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pagina’s
...the 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
...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... | |
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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! 
