 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
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - 552 pages
...FANATICS MAKE HEAVKN'S SAINTS." — DROWNING. THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN. 53 For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark underground ; Or, all...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 turn,... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1873 - 336 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, all...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 hearts... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1873 - 968 pages
...at their task look up and fix him with a strange and serious gaze. "For all day we drag onr burden tiring Through the coal-dark under-ground! Or all...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. For all doy the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes in our faces — Till our hearts turn,... | |
 | Ohio. Constitutional convention - 1873 - 1372 pages
...then wonder if these little children should say with the poet, in their hearts' deepest despair : " All day we drive the wheels of iron In the factories round and round ; All day we drag our burdens tiring In the cold dark under ground; All day the wheels are drawing, turning—... | |
 | English song - 1873 - 566 pages
...HAVE REMAINED UNCROWNED — (BROWNING) THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN. 53 For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark underground ; Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron d In the factories, round and round. | z | "For all day the wheels are droning, turning; 3 n « Their... | |
 | Alvah C. Beecher - 1874 - 234 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, all...the wheels of iron In the factories round and round. " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning' Their wind conies iu our faces, — Till our hearts... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...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. VIL " For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning ; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1877 - 354 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. VIL 'For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our... | |
 | Benjamin Bartis Comegys, Layman - 1878 - 278 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 all...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 turn,... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 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, all...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 turn,... | |
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