 | 1859 - 316 pages
...Of the blankets around me again, With the curtains about my head, And nothing to think of the rain. For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the awful pangs Of the run before the meal. Oh ! but for one short hour, A respite however scant, No blessed... | |
 | 1858 - 424 pages
...weather is warm and bright ; While underneath the eavei The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! Ho blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 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....breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With tile sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to... | |
 | Ellen Barlee - 1860 - 262 pages
...devised for this malady, which appears now to have reached its fever point ? CHAPTER VII. lalf ag " Oh, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above her head, And the grass beneath her feet ! For only one short hour To feel as she used to feel, Before... | |
 | 1863 - 568 pages
...for one hour a day, if possible ; into the green of a park, since no one hour would enable her " — to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above her head, And the grass beneath her feet." done it better, and that with less dealing of death to her... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " O, but to breathe the breath 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1862 - 522 pages
...The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " 0 ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " 0 ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 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....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... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1871 - 822 pages
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring, 0, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet !" Other workers beside the poor seamstress can, in their degree, and do, share in this feeling. And... | |
 | 1862 - 562 pages
...the 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. " Oh, but to breathe the breath And the grass beneath my feet. For only one short hour Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the... | |
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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. 
