 Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient boy; And balmy rest about thee— Smooths off the day's annoy. I sit me down and think Of all thy winning ways; Yet almost wish with sudden shrink That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong pillowed...  The Eclectic Review - Page 53edited by - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...praises—the truest and the most precious that can be given. TO TLH, SIX YEARS OLD, DURING A SICKNESS. Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient...sudden shrink That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong pillowed meekness, Thy thanks to all that aid, Thy heart in pain and weakness Of fancied faults afraid... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1851 - 300 pages
...time, Where nor fears nor hopes intrude, Lost in pure beatitude ! ANONYMOUS. TO A SICK CHILD. HOPE breathes at last from out thee, My little patient...annoy. I sit me down, and think Of all thy winning ways ; And almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong, pillowed meekness,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...a tomb would wish to die. MILTON. LEIGH HUNT. 367 ffl I. f . f ., SIX YEARS OLD, DUE1NO A SICKNESS. SLEEP breathes at last from out thee, My little, patient...sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong pillowed meekness, Thy thanks to all that aid, Thy heart, in pain and weakness, Of fancied faults afraid... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...expressively, — " Father, dear father, God has made a star." TO A CHILD DURING SICKNESS. — Leigh Hunt. SLEEP breathes at last from out thee, My little, patient...sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong, pillowed meekness, Thy thanks to all that aid, Thy heart, in pain and weakness, Of fancied faults afraid,... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...expressively, — " Father, dear father, God has made a star." TO A CHILD DURING SICKNESS. — Leigh Hunt. SLEEP breathes at last from out thee, My little, patient...sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong, pillowed meekness, Thy thanks to all that aid, Thy heart, in pain and weakness, Of fancied faults afraid,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...praises — the truest and the most precious that can be given. TO TLH, SIX YEARS OLD, DURING A SICKNESS. Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient...sudden shrink That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong pillowed meekness, Thy thanks to all that aid, Thy heart in pain aurl weakness Of fancied faults afraid... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...father, God has made a star." TO A CHILD DURING SICKNESS.— Leigh Hunt. SLEEP breathes at last from out My little, patient boy ! And balmy rest about thee...sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong, pillowed meekness, Thy thanks to all that aid, Thy heart, in pain and weakness, Of fancied faults afraid,... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...do a great deal of good at once, will seldom do any good at all. 236 THE PROMISE AND THE FULFILMENT. Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient boy, And balmy rest about thee Smoothes off the day's annoy.— LEIGH HI:XT. How quietly he sleeps, said Mrs. B., half aloud, as she... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...woodlands o'er, • In freedom and in joy. JAMES HENBY LEIGH HUNT. Born 1784. To a Child, during Sickness. Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient...wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. SBie gtunt bit Swtig an ZBie fanft etflingen beine fiiebct 3m fliflen ffialbbeteicl), 5Benn lei* bie... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1857 - 338 pages
...Marian, — who makes my heart and very rhymes run o'er.. TO TLH SIX YEARS OLD, DIB1XG A SICKNESS. SLEEP breathes at last from out thee, My little, patient...sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. Thy sidelong pillowed meekness, Thy thanks to all that aid, Thy heart, in pain and weakness, Of fancied faults afraid... | |
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