| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...The brooding swallows cling. 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...the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet 1 For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that... | |
| Literature - 1861 - 676 pages
...the eaves The brooding swallows cling As if to show me then- sunny backs And twit me with the spring. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of -the cowslip and...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 ! J Cowper... | |
| George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...backs, And twit me with the spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sw 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 ! "... | |
| 1847 - 800 pages
...table — a broken cbair — And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there. 0 ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose...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!" work-house.... | |
| 1844 - 858 pages
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| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 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 sweet — With the sky above my bead, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel,' Before I knew... | |
| 1844 - 878 pages
...the spring. Oh but to breathe tho breath Of tho cowslip and primrose sweet — Witli the sky nbttvo my head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one short hour To feel ax 1 used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal ! Oh... | |
| Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 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...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 ! "... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 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...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 ! "... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 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...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... | |
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