Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And the harbor bar be moaning. Three corpses lay out on the shining sands In the morning gleam as the tide went down, And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who will never come back to the... Littell's Living Age - Page 1611855Full view - About this book
| 1859 - 868 pages
...went down : And the women are watching and wringing their hands For those who will never come back to the town. For men must work, and women must weep, And the sooner its o'er the sooner to sleep. And good-by to the bar and its moaning. [From PUNCH.] Three merchants... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 pages
...went down, And the women are watching and wringing their hands, For those who will never come back to the town ; For men must work, and women must weep,...the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep — And good bye to the bar and its moaning. CHARLES KINSSI.EV. MOONRISE. ABOVE the headlands massy, dim, A... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 pages
...went down, And the women are watching and wringing their hands, For those who will never come back to the town ; For men must work, and women must weep, — And the sooner it 's over, the sooner to sleep — And good bye to the bar and its moaning. CHARLES KINGSLEY. MOONRISE.... | |
| Euphemia Vale Blake - 1854 - 432 pages
...went down ; And the women are weeping and wringing their hands, For those who will never come back to the town. For men must work, and women must weep ; And there 't little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning." KlJJMLEY, (Altered, The... | |
| George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 632 pages
...went down, And the women are watching and wringing their bands, For those who will never come back to the town ; For men must work, and women must weep...— And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep — ¿nd good-bye to the bar and it« moaning. Bayard Taylor Bays there is a shop for the sale of sam-shoo,... | |
| 1855 - 594 pages
...tide went down, And the women are watching and wringing their hands, For those will never come back to the town ; — For men must work, and women must weep, — And the sooner its over, the sooner to sleep, — And good-bye to the bar and its moaning. We give one more quotation... | |
| Richard Wright Procter - 1855 - 492 pages
...went down, And the women are watching and wriyging their handa, For those that will never come back to the town ; For men must work, and women must weep, And the sooner its over, the sooner to aleep, And good bye to the bar and its moaning. TO MARY. FROM "POEMS RY THREE... | |
| Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice - 1856 - 308 pages
...tide went down, And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who will never come back to the town; For men must work, and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep — WEARILY STRETCHES THE SAND. WEARILY stretches the sand to the surge, and the surge to the eloudland;... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1856 - 312 pages
...tide went down, And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who will never come back to the town ; For men must work, and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep — WEARILY STRETCHES THE SAND. WEAKILY stretches the sand to the surge, and the surge to the cloudland;... | |
| Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice - 1856 - 310 pages
...tide went down, And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who will never come back to the town; For men must work, and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep — WEARILY STRETCHES THE SAND. * * * «** * * WEAKILY stretches the sand to the surge, and the surge... | |
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