 | 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...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! J Cowper feelingly notes how those who never pass their brick-wall bounds to range the fields and... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...Cell ! wenn unter ben 2)a$rtnnen bie brutenben Sdjroalben jwitfdjern, 208 -Dos Sieb bet ШЬепп. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! *) 0 hot for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only... | |
 | 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...the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal!" work-house. Those who do such high sounding charities " have received their reward." The impoverished... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844 - 316 pages
...©aum, biè baé £ег& etfranítunb baí ®e^írn erftarrt, fo nnc аиф bie mübt фапЬ. : У Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short honr To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! *)... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...eaves The brooding swallows cling. As if to show me their sunny backs. And twit me with the spring. eÌ) jr :X7- 2 < g H1 G 2jHɥ u :^ ]X :V R fU Q[ kB * { - XwQ YhF I +> gross beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of... | |
 | 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 but for one... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 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...beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I need to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! " Oh but for one short... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 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...With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my fret, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk... | |
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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. 
