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
| Joseph Cook - 1879 - 302 pages
...eyelids drooping, The reddest flowers would seem as pale as snow. "'For all day we bear our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground ; Or all...wheels of iron In the factories round and round.' " If this is sentiment, surely it is good political economy as well, and that for both Britons and... | |
| Maria Georgiana Fetherstonhaugh (hon.), Mrs. Fetherstonhaugh (Maria Georgiana Carleton) - 1879 - 260 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... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1880 - 324 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For all day we bear our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground ; Or all...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round.' " If this is sentiment, surely it is good political economy as well, and that for both Britons and... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, [as snow. The reddest flower would look as pale For all day we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground, Or all day...the 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... | |
| Amand Freiherr von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld - 1880 - 530 pages
...eyo lids drooping, The reddest flowers 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 driving, turning, Their wind comes in our facesTill our hearts turn —... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1880 - 316 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For all day we bear our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground ; Or all...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round.' " If this is sentiment, surely it is good political economy as well, and that for both Britons and... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 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,... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1881 - 514 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, under-ground — Or,...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. •' For, all day, the wheels arc droning, turning, Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our hearts... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1881 - 428 pages
...eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. For all day we drag our burden thing Through the coal-dark underground — Or, all day,...the 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...eyelids Iroopin?. The reddest flower woul.t look as pale aa suow. For. all day. we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark, underground— Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the tacumcs, round oud round. 'For. all day, the wheel* are droning, turning— Their wind comes in our... | |
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