Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are... The Awakening of Mary Fenwick, a Novel - Page 79by Beatrice Whitby - 1892 - 334 pagesFull view - About this book
| New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...And the wisdom of our books, When compared with their caresses, And the gladness of their looks. They are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said, For they are living poems, And all the rest are dead." Children are born into the natural world in order... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1868 - 100 pages
...Tinge , And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. WGS l'íS N PUBLIC : ) } .J;.-lt ». «V» IN» l j ч- .\ •. • ....N- j LONDON PRIDE AND GOLDEN... | |
| 1876 - 396 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. Now is not this a very beautiful song ? Many children little know how deeply they are loved by their... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. LONGFELLOW. MORAL BEAUTY. 'Tls not alone in the flush of morn, In the cowslip-bell, or the blossom... | |
| S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 pages
...with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks f Ye are better than all the ballads That were ever sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. IN THE WOODS.—Did you ever sit by a camp fire of your own kindling, and watch the smoke as it grew... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks P Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of old, In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with jour caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. MY LOST YOUTH. OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? " Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." " Children may teach us one blessed, one enviable art — the art of being easily happy. Kind nature... | |
| Music - 1859 - 440 pages
...And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Yc are better than all the ballads That ever were sung...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. AMERICAN BBACTT. — The Newport correspondent of the Boston Courier, whose initials " GSH" vouch that... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks? Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. MY LOST YOUTH. OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go... | |
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