 Work, work, work, In the dull December light, And work, work, work, When 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.  The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend - Page 481846Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 pages
...and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb' d, As well as the weary hand. " Work — work — work, In the dull December light,...work — work — work, When the weather is warm and brightWhile underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling As if to show me their sunny backs And... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh ! but for one short hour t A respite, however brief! No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief 1 A little weeping would ease my heart — But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd, As well as the weary hand. 8. "Work! work! work! In the dull December light, And...me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head,... | |
 | 1858 - 424 pages
...light: And write — write — write! When the weather is warm and bright ; While underneath the eavei The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their...but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! Ho blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief! A little weeping would ease my heart,... | |
 | Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 pages
...Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd As well as the weary hand. " Work— work — work, In the dull December light,...sunny backs, And 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... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb' d, As well as the weary hand. " Work ! work ! work ! In the dull December light ;...sunny backs, And 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... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, " Work — work — work ! In the dull December tight, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm...backs, And twit me with the Spring. '• Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With tile sky above my head And the grass... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand ! " Work — work — work I In the dull December light ; And work — work —...swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet; With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | 1860 - 568 pages
...Workman, No. 6C. "I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, That it may seem their guilt." — Macbeth. " While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." " The Song of the Shirt." To which, perhaps, might be added the first six lines of Coleridge's " Sonnet... | |
 | 1860 - 582 pages
...Workman, No. C6. "I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, That it may seem their guilt." — Macbeth. "While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." " The Song of the Shirt." To which, perhaps, might be added the first six lines of Coleridge's " Sonnet... | |
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