 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 - 1881 - 224 pages
...flower would look as pale as snow. ' ' ' For all day we bear our burden tiring Through the coal- dark underground; Or all day we drive the 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... | |
 | S. E. Thomas - 1881 - 504 pages
...reddest flower 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 In the factories, round and round." Commissions of inquiry had been held with regard to the factory operatives, and the revelations which... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1881 - 426 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 day, we drive the wheels of iron lu the factories round and round. " For, all day the wheels are droning, turning — Their wind comes... | |
 | 1882 - 882 pages
...its place. The first picture is from Mrs. Browning's Cry of the Children. "All day we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground, Or, all...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. "And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray — > 'O, ye wheels' (breaking... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 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. 7. And well may the children weep before you ! They are weary ere they run ; They have never seen the... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1882 - 888 pages
...its place. The first picture is from Mrs. Browning's Cry of the Children. "All day we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark underground. Or, all...wheels of iron In the factories, round and round. "And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray — 'O, ye wheels' (breaking... | |
 | 1883 - 642 pages
...heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale an 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 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 comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn,... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 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 day...wheels of iron, In the factories, round and round. 4. " For all day the wheels are droning, turning, — Their wind comes in our faces, — Till our hearts... | |
 | 1883 - 748 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... | |
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