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
| John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would' look as pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden "For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning ; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn,... | |
| Edward Alsworth Ross, Mrs. Mary Edna McCaull Bohlman - 1926 - 434 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 turn,... | |
| Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 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,... | |
| Arthur Lawrence Hayward - 1926 - 368 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. Our blood splashes upward, O gold-heaper And your purple shows your path ! But the child's sob in the... | |
| Samuel Eagle Forman - 1928 - 536 pages
...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. "For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning, Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn,... | |
| Valerie Polakow - 1994 - 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." Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Cry of the Children Child labor is an enduring symbol of the harshness... | |
| John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 pages
...look as pale as snow; For, all day, we drag our burden tiring Through the coal-dark, underground - ID Or, all day, we drive 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,... | |
| Fred Guida - 2000 - 290 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...drive the wheels of iron In the factories, round and round."14 One can also look to Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt": "O, men, with sisters dear! O,... | |
| Ed Wicke - 2003 - 240 pages
...to mind. "For all day long we drag our burden, tiring, through the coal-dark underground Or all the day we drive the wheels of iron in the factories, round and round. " 'Mrs Browning wrote that,' she said. 'We read it at Miss Bell's: it was only published last year.... | |
| James R. Simmons, Jr - 2007 - 500 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,...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... | |
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