 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 pages
...fretful in the restlessnesj of joy ; For the hoy would push his sister, and the sister crowd the hoy, Till the father asked for quiet in his grave paternal...play." For the dear soul knew that music was a very sov» creigu balm ; She had sprinkled it over Sorrow and seen its brow grow calm, In the days of slender... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1875 - 118 pages
...grew fretful in the restlessness of joy, For the boy would push his sister, and the sister crowd the Till the father asked for quiet in his grave, paternal...the mother hushed the tumult with the words, " Now, boy, Mary, play." For the dear soul knew that music was a very sovereign balm; She had sprinkled it... | |
 | Boston:james R. Osgood and Company - 1877 - 656 pages
...fretful in the restlessness of i^v, For the boy would push his sister, and the sister crowd tha boy, Till the father asked for quiet in his grave paternal...way, But the mother hushed the tumult with the words, " N w, Mary, play." For the dear soul knew that music was a very sovereign balm; She had sprinkled... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1879 - 286 pages
...fretful in the restlessness of joy, For the boy would push his sister, and the sister crowd the boy, Till the father asked for quiet in his grave, paternal...hushed the tumult with the words, "Now, Mary, play." Does this not show that our poet has never forgotten that home, nor the great excitement caused in... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 pages
...fretful in the restlessness of joy ; For the boy would push his sister, and the sister crowd the boy, Till the father asked for quiet in his grave paternal...tinkling quills, Or carolling to her spinet with its thiu metallic thrills. So Mary, the household minstrel, who always loved to please, Right, , Sat down... | |
 | 1881 - 704 pages
...fretful in the restlessness of joy; For the boy would push the sister, nnd the sister crowd tho boy, Till the father asked for quiet In his grave, paternal...was a very sovereign balm •. She had sprinkled it o'er Sorrow and seen its brow grow calm, la the days of slender harpsichords with tapping, tinkling... | |
 | 1881 - 700 pages
...fretful In the restlessness of joy; For the boy would push the sister, and the sister crowd the boy. Till the father asked for quiet In his grave, paternal...words, "Now, Mary, play." For the dear soul knew that muslo was a very sovereign balm ; She had sprinkled it o'er Sorrow and seen its brow grow calm, In... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 pages
...fretful in the restlessness of joy, For the boy would push his sister, and the sister crowd the boy, Till the father asked for quiet, in his grave paternal...harpsichords with tapping tinkling quills, . Or carolling to her^pinet with its thin metallic thrills. So Mary, the household minstrel, who always loved to please,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...fretful in the restlessness of joy, For the boy would push his sister, and the sister crowd the boy, Till the father asked for quiet, in his grave paternal...mother hushed the tumult with the words, "Now, Mary, For the dear soul knew that music was a very sovereign balm ; She had sprinkled it over Sorrow anc]... | |
 | Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 pages
...fretful in the restlessness of joy, For the boy would push his sister and the sister crowd the boy, Till the father asked for quiet in his grave, paternal...dear soul knew that music was a very sovereign balm ; In the days of slender harpsichords with the tapping, tinkling quills, Or carolling: to her spinet... | |
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With its smell of mastic-varnish and its flash of ivory keys ! Then the children all grew fretful in the restlessness of joy, For the boy would push his sister, and the sister * crowd the boy, Till the father asked for quiet in his grave paternal way,... 
