 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!  Nora: the lost and redeemed - Page 127by Lydia Folger Fowler - 1863 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With 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 costs a meal ! " O! but for one short hour — A respite however brief... | |
 | 1861 - 676 pages
...twit me with the spring. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of -the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet,...hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! J Cowper feelingly notes how those who never pass their... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...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 feet,...hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want. And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief... | |
 | 1847 - 800 pages
...For sometimes falling there. 0 ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet,...hour, To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal!" work-house. Those who do such high sounding charities... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...208 -Dos Sieb bet ШЬепп. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet,...hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! *) 0 hot for one short hour! A respite however brief!... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
..." 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 the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! " Ob but for one short hour ! A respite however brief!... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
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 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
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 | 1844 - 878 pages
...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 - 442 pages
...twit me with the Spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet...hour • To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief!... | |
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