 Lightly, oh, lightly we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song; She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Gayly, oh, gayly we glide and we sing, We bear her along like a pearl on a string.  Poet Lore - Page 651909Full view - About this book
 | Sarojini Naidu - 1905 - 112 pages
...fall through them into depths below depths. ARTHUR SYMONS. FOLK SONGS PALANQUIN-BEARERS LIGHTLY, O lightly we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song; She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream, She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Gaily,... | |
 | Friedrich Hebbel - 1909 - 118 pages
...breath.' But it is time to give a sample of these verses, taking a stanza from ' Palanquin-Bearers ': ' Lightly, oh, lightly we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song; She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream, She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Gayly,... | |
 | Sarojini Naidu - 1914 - 112 pages
...fall through them into depths below depths. ARTHUR SYMONS. FOLK SONGS PALANQUIN-BEARERS LIGHTLY, O lightly we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song ; She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream, She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Gaily,... | |
 | Clayton Sedgwick Cooper - 1914 - 408 pages
...surely this spirit of dream and beauty, than Mrs. Naidu herself in her "Palanquin Bearers": Lightly, 0 lightly, we bear her along. She sways like a flower in the wind of our song. She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream. She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Gaily,... | |
 | 1917 - 736 pages
...perfect and the rhythm exquisite. Here is her "Palanquin-Bearers," that opens the book: Lightly, О lightly we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song; She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream, She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Gaily,... | |
 | Sarojini Naidu - 1928 - 266 pages
...PATH OF TEARS 218 III. THE SANCTUARY 22 j THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD FOLK SONGS PALANQUIN-BEARERS LIGHTLY, O lightly, we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song; She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream, She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Gaily,... | |
 | 1917 - 898 pages
...perfect and the rhythm exquisite. Here is her "Palanquin-Bearers," that opens the book: Lightly, О lightly we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song; She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream, She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Gaily,... | |
 | Mulk Raj Anand - 1933 - 148 pages
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 | 1970 - 306 pages
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