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" IN winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street.... "
Teachers Monographs: The National Journal of the Public Schools - Page 164
1915
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 91

1903 - 1362 pages
...Pasterinde) and I have several times returned home reluctantly at midnight. I humming sadly, — " And does it not seem hard to you When all the sky is clear and bine, And I should like so much to play, To !..•••• to go to bed b; day ? " As we passed close...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 39; Volume 112

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1915 - 878 pages
...quiet during the night except the neighbourhood. ' And does it not seem hard to you,' wrote Sidney, ' When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day ? ' The day assistant happened on the report, and was quite scandalised. ' If the night nurses are...
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The School Journal, Volume 81

1913 - 368 pages
...confusing! I always did have a secret sympathy for Stevenson's little boy who "has to go to bed by day." And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day? How many times I have thought of him, here in Norway, where we go to bed with the wonderful, golden...
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A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1885 - 124 pages
...way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day ? II A THOUGHT IT is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink, With little children saying...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 166

1885 - 850 pages
...way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day f R." L. STEVENSON. From The London Quarterly Review. THE FIRST EPOCH IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.«...
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The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents, Volume 29

1916 - 336 pages
...way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds кШ1 hopping on the tree Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me...like so much to play To have to go to bed by day? Perhaps even if bed time is not changed to an hour later, as so many mothers do change it, yet the...
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The Strand Magazine, Volume 35

Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1908 - 822 pages
...rain potatoes. -SHAKESPEARE. Bliss was ¡tm that dawn to be alive. — WOKOBWORTH. Vol. xxxv. -20. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to ко to bed by day? — RLS Thou straggler into loving arms, young chmbrr-up of knees, When I forget...
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Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1892 - 264 pages
...grown-up people's feet Still going past me on the street. And does it not seem hard to yon, That when the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, I have to go to bed by day ? " Mr. Hopkinson Smith has written a witty little monograph on this relation...
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Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading: Selected from English and American ...

1893 - 112 pages
...way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day ? AT THE SEASIDE. When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore....
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Vision: A Magazine for Youth, Volume 6

1893 - 648 pages
...grown-up people's feet Ktill going past me on the street. And does it not seem hard to you. That when the sky is clear and blue. And I should like so much to play. I have to go to l*d by day Í" (To be continued.) MOTHER, WHERE IS YOUR CHILD TONIGHT? A WOMAN at the...
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