 If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2611843Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 852 pages
...reddest flowers would look as pale as snow; For all day we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal dark underground, Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron....1 Till our hearts turn, and our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places 1 Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling, Turns... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flowers would look as pale as snow; For all day, we duag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark underground, Or, all...are droning, turning, Their wind comes in our faces ! Till our hearts turn, and our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places! Turns... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1860 - 606 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as enow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark underground — Or,...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. * ' For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes in our faces — Till our hearts... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark underground — Or,...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. vn. " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our... | |
 | San Francisco (Calif.) - 1910 - 1586 pages
...merely To drop down in them and sleep. " 'For all day we drag our burden tiring Through the cold, dark underground; Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. ''Happily for England, the children's cry has not gone unheeded, hut it was not until the Education... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground — Or,...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes in our faces — Till our hearts... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 320 pages
...to go ; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our hurden tiring Through the...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. TO. ' For all day, the wheels are droning, turning ; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1862 - 480 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark, underground — Or,...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. 'For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our hearts... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 420 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark, underground — Or,...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. 'For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our hearts... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark underground — Or,...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes in our faces — Till our hearts... | |
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