 Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are...  The Sprague Classic Readers: Book 1-5 - Page 1by Sarah E. Sprague - 1902Full view - About this book
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1882 - 838 pages
...whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings And the wisdom of our books When compared...caresses And the gladness of your looks? Ye are better ¡han all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are the living poems, And all the rest are... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1882 - 504 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. " For what are all uur contrivuigs, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? ' *P*A *** *££* **' alp:i: Ye arc better than all die ballads That ever were sung or said ; For... | |
 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin - 1882 - 56 pages
...his little song to " Children," closing with : " Ye are better than all the ballads That were ever sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." And the exquisite home and child feeling of " The Hanging of the Crane " ; — a picture so njinutely... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 626 pages
...whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. MY LOST YOUTH. OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...share His crown. HENRY ALFORD. Poetical Works. (Strahan.) 244 Ill, LITTLE CHILDREN. " For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." HW LONGFELLOW. FLOWERS ON THE BANK. FLOWERS on the bank — we pass and call them gay : The primroses... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 pages
...my ear II.— 11 What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 1807— IN SCHOOL-DAYS. Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged... | |
 | 1883 - 700 pages
...whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. " For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." Published weekly. Price $I.5O a year, or 6 cents single copy ! ~~ UNITY PULPIT. BOSTON. SERMONS OF... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1894 - 748 pages
...whisper in my car What the birds and the winds are sing, ing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of old, In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
 | lady Constance Eleanora C. Howard - 1883 - 316 pages
...faces of the children, They were no longer there.' LONGFELLOW : The Open Window. ' For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.' LONGFELLOW : Children. AND then there came a time which to her dying day Mollie never forgot. The day... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 pages
...whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings. And the wisdom of our books. When...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of old. In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
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