 BED IN SUMMER IN winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past...  The Beacon Second Reader - Page 81by James Hiram Fassett - 1914 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1903 - 1362 pages
...Pasterinde) and I have several times returned home reluctantly at midnight. I humming sadly, — " And does it not seem hard to you When all the sky is clear and bine, And I should like so much to play, To !..•••• to go to bed b; day ? " As we passed close... | |
 | Education - 1913 - 366 pages
...confusing! I always did have a secret sympathy for Stevenson's little boy who "has to go to bed by day." And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day? How many times I have thought of him, here in Norway, where we go to bed with the wonderful, golden... | |
 | American periodicals - 1885 - 850 pages
...cease. Chambers' Journal. JE PANTON. BED IN SUMMER. IN winter, I get up bv night, And dress by yellow candle-light, In summer, quite the other way, I have...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day f R." L. STEVENSON. From The London Quarterly Review. THE FIRST EPOCH IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.«... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Children's poetry - 1885 - 124 pages
...READER IOI A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES I BED IN SUMMER TN winter I get up at night *- And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day ? II A THOUGHT IT is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink, With little children saying... | |
 | Kindergarten - 1916 - 336 pages
...summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds кШ1 hopping on the tree Or hear the grown-up people's...like so much to play To have to go to bed by day? Perhaps even if bed time is not changed to an hour later, as so many mothers do change it, yet the... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1908 - 822 pages
...rain potatoes. -SHAKESPEARE. Bliss was ¡tm that dawn to be alive. — WOKOBWORTH. Vol. xxxv. -20. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to ко to bed by day? — RLS Thou straggler into loving arms, young chmbrr-up of knees, When I forget... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - Child development - 1892 - 264 pages
...grown-up people's feet Still going past me on the street. And does it not seem hard to yon, That when the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, I have to go to bed by day ? " Mr. Hopkinson Smith has written a witty little monograph on this relation... | |
 | Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...could find Where the brook ran away. BED IN SUMMER. In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day ? AT THE SEASIDE. When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore.... | |
 | Readers - 1898 - 216 pages
...And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. 182 1 have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping...clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, I 'd have to go to bed by day ? DEATH OF COCK ROBIN. Who kiUed Cock Robin ? " I," said the Sparrow,... | |
 | Mormons - 1893 - 648 pages
...grown-up people's feet Ktill going past me on the street. And does it not seem hard to you. That when the sky is clear and blue. And I should like so much to play. I have to go to l*d by day Í" (To be continued.) MOTHER, WHERE IS YOUR CHILD TONIGHT? A WOMAN at the... | |
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