 And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground; Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round.  Labor, with Preludes on Current Events - Page 98by Joseph Cook - 1880 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1914 - 530 pages
...machines, Et, la nuit nous laissant respirer ses pavots, Nous dormirons enfin comme les animaux.' (' If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep.'} But a still more terrible picture of English manners is supplied by the long poem entitled ' La Tamise.'... | |
 | 1843 - 832 pages
...mine?* Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh ! " say the children, " we are weary — And we cannot...were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremhle sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our face, trying to go ; And underneath our heavy eyelids... | |
 | 1843 - 1380 pages
...mine?* Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh ! " say the children, " we are weary — And we cannot...tremble sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our face, trying to go ; And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! " For oh," say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping — i day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground — uu day, we drive the wheels... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...?• Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal shadows From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall on our face trying to go ; And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flowers would look... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...pious race. " For oh," say the children, " wo arc weary, And wo cannot run or leap — If we eared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sloop. Our kneas tremble sorely in the stooping— We fall upon our faces, trying to fao ; And, underneath... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal-shadows From your pleasures fair and fine. " For, oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall on our face trying to go ; And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...mine?* Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal shadows From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall on our face trying to go ; Antl underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flowers would look... | |
 | M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1852 - 146 pages
...mine? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! For oh!" say the children, "we are weary, And we cannot run...— If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To lie down in them to sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping — The Izeschne teaches that this... | |
 | 1856 - 784 pages
...? Leave us quiet, in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! " For, oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...knees tremble sorely in the stooping — We fall upon oar faces, trying to go ; And, underneath our heavy eyelids, drooping, The reddest flowers would look... | |
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