 Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!  Complete poetical works - Page 149by Thomas Hood - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Charles Collyns Walkey - 1868 - 76 pages
...In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal. — Hood. A 15. If by your art, my dearest father, you Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them... | |
 | 1857 - 872 pages
...trellised with roses? If not, bow shall he remember the beauty of the green fields, sighing — " ' 0, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet ! ' " " Will your conventional form of arose — (something like the architectural ones of the Tudors,... | |
 | 1901 - 502 pages
...work—work—work, when the weather is warm and brfght. While underneath the eaves the brooding swallows cling, "Oh! but to breathe the breath of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want and the walk that costs a meal! "Oh! but for one short hour! a respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, but only... | |
 | 1974 - 2200 pages
...to breathe the breath Of the cowslips and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head And the gratis beneath my feet. For only one short hour to feel as...feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that cost a meal. O but for one short hour, A respite however brief, No blessed leisure for love or hope,... | |
 | George Fitzhugh - 1960 - 310 pages
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the Spring. Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meall Oh, but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But... | |
 | Peter Scheckner - 1989 - 360 pages
...bright— While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling As if to show me their sunny backs 'Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal! 'Oh, but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...— While underneath the eaves As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 'O, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal! 'O, but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pages
...衍下燕于築新巢， 育雄抱卵亦辛勞， 羽背陽光堪炫耀。 我怎不知春來到? "Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal! "Oh but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only... | |
 | Lynn Mae Alexander - 2003 - 266 pages
...Shirt" to suggest the seamstress's gentility and fragility, and to refer to her rural origins: Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel. It is little surprise then that Victorian artists, who consistently used Hood's poem for their titles... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...eaves The brooding swallows cling As if to show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. "Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal! "Oh! but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only... | |
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