 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.  Poems - Page 47by Thomas Hood - 1854 - 388 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1871 - 822 pages
...the dull Deeember light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring, 0, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head. And... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 pages
...In the dull December light ; And work — work — work ! When the weather is warm and bright; While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. 9. " O, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...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 wife the Spring. 9. "Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet ; Wife the sky... | |
 | 1863 - 150 pages
...the weather is warm and bright, While underneath the eaves the brooding swallows cling, As if to shew their sunny backs, and twit me with the Spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath of the primrose and cowslip sweet — With the sky above my head, and the grass beneath my feet, If only for... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1864 - 186 pages
...seen of the city, the more I have longed to be roaming in the country with my hazel stick. " I longed to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet." Grasping my hazel in my hand, I have visited the British Museum, with its almost endless curiosities,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1864 - 490 pages
...the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " O ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1864 - 72 pages
...in the following sentences : — 1. The governor's servants told them to fire upon the soldiers. 2. The brooding swallows cling, as if to show me their sunny backs, and twit me with the spring. 3. The nurse, wishing to see the city, stepped ont of the boat. 4. The bleak wind of March made her... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...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 bucks And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...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... | |
 | 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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