 | 1865 - 410 pages
...breath Of the birds'-eye and honey-dew, Or to change the mild routine That I underwent with the crew. For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew that monotonous fare, That unchanging, incessant meal. " Oh ! for one minute more, To get my stretcher... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny bucks And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe...I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meall " Oh, but for one short hour ! A "respite however brief I No blessed leisure for Love or Hope,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! 10. " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! 10. " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pages
...The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the +cowslip and...the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal; 10. " Oh ! but for one short hour ! A "'"respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring....For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, i Before I knew the woes of want " OhJ but for one short hourl A respite however brief! No blessed... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...bright— While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, IX. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...my head And the grass beneath my feet. For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal... | |
 | william harrison - 1867 - 518 pages
...primrose, and the violet-bud,— They are the dearest flowers to me.|| Hood's sempstress utters her " Oh but to breathe the breath of the cowslip and primrose...the sky above my head, and the grass beneath my feet !'4i And in some miscellaneous stanzas of his we read how he Like Hope, it show'd its blossoms in the... | |
 | 1867 - 514 pages
...primrose, and the violet-bud, — They are the dearest flowers to me.|| Hood's sempstress utters her " Oh but to breathe the breath of the cowslip and primrose...the sky above my head, and the grass beneath my feet !''! And in some miscellaneous stanzas of his we read how he pluek'd the Primrose at night's dewy noon... | |
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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. 
