 BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out...  Together: A Novel - Page 96by Lydia M. Millard - 1865 - 6 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Julius Hunter, Julius K. Hunter - 1988 - 231 pages
...concerns outweigh any iniquities. 5. LIFE IN WESTMORELAND/ PORTLAND: GROWING UP Back, turn backward, О Time, in your flight. Make me a child again, just for tonight. — F.li/aheth Akcrs Allen Life in Westmoreland /Portland during the enclave's early years was similar... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...of leaflets that were distributed to Civil War soldiers. Rock Me to Sleep Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for...echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers... | |
 | 1909 - 738 pages
...20 (the very day "Miss Katharine" was born) is the following: Backward, turn backward, 0 time in thy flight; Make me a child again just for to-night Mother, come back from the echoless shoreTake me again to your heart as of yore. Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care; Smooth the... | |
 | Norton Juster - 1996 - 324 pages
...folly. — The Household VOL.I, 1868 ROCK ME TO SLEEP, MOTHER Backward, turn backward, O, Time, in thy flight Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother,...echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore, Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair, Over my slumber... | |
 | Norton Juster - 1996 - 324 pages
...Backward, turn backward, O, Time, in thy flight Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come hack from the echoless shore. Take me again to your heart as of yore, Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair, Over my slumber... | |
 | Robert Penn Warren - 1998 - 866 pages
...Sleep," by Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832-1911). The Allen poem actually reads "Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, / Make me a child again just for to-night!" 39 Pondy Woods 1 : Pondy Woods is a large, swampy, wooded area near Guthrie, Kentucky. The lynching... | |
 | Mary Herring Wright - 1999 - 296 pages
...George Henry. Miss Staten sang—or started to sing—a solo and fainted in the middle of it. "Make "Me Backward, turn backward, 0 Time, in your flight. Make me a child again just for tonight! Elizabeth Akers Allen, "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother" THOUGH Mama had taught—or tried to teach—all... | |
 | Henry James - 1999 - 966 pages
...popular ballad] "Rock Me to Sleep," by Elizabeth Akers Allen (i860), begins: "Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, / Make me a child again just for to-night!" The actual refrain is "Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!" 549.36-37 Puck . . . minutes]... | |
 | Wright Morris - 1999 - 204 pages
...Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832-1911), entitled "Rock Me to Sleep" and beginning, Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight Make me a child again, just for tonight In the text of the story, the jingle is quoted not in the restored verse format but with the line breaks... | |
 | 2000 - 264 pages
...exalted motherhood and her godly influence. Elizabeth Akers Allen wrote: Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for...echoless shore. Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair. Over my slumbers... | |
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