 Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old; Let it drop over my forehead to-night, Shading my faint eyes away from the light; For, with its sunny-edged shadows once more, Haply will throng the sweet visions...  The Silent Partner - Page 3051914Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Slumber's soft calm o'er my heavy lids creep; — Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep ! Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold....visions of yore ; Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep ; — Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep! Mother, dear mother, the years have been... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 712 pages
...brain : Slumber's soft calm o'er my heavy lids creep, Rock me to sleep, Mother — rock me to sleep ! Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old : Let it fall over my forehead to-night, Shielding my eyes from the flickering light, For oh ! with its sunny-edged... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 404 pages
...brain: Rock me to sleep, Mother—rock me to sleep ! Slumber's soft calm o'er my heavy lids creep, Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old : Let it fall over my forehead to-night, Shielding my eyes from the flickering light, For oh ! with its sunny-edged... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...world-weary brain ; Slumber's soft calm o'er my heavy lids creep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep! Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold, Fall on your shoulders again, as of old ; Let it fall over my forehead to-night, Shading my faint eyes away from the light. For with its sunny-edged... | |
 | 1861 - 144 pages
...brain ; Slumber's soft calm o'er my heavy lids creep : Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep ! Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold. Fall on your shoulders again as of old ; Let it fall over my forehead to-night, .', Shading my faint eyes away from the light ; For, with its sunny-edged... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - Soldiers' writings, American - 1862 - 252 pages
...my heavy lids creep, — Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep. " Come, let your brown hair, lighted with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old ; Let it fall over my forehead to-night, Shading my eyes from the moon's pallid light, For with its sunny-edged... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1864 - 258 pages
...again ; Come from the silenee so long and so deep — Roek me to sleep, mother — roek me to sleep ! Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old— Let it fall over my forehead to-night, Shielding my ihini eyes away from the light— For with its sunny-edged... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - 1864 - 244 pages
...my heavy lids creep,— Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep. " Come, let your brown hair, lighted with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old ; Let it fall over my forehead to-night, Shading my eyes from the moon's pallid light, For with its sunny-edged... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 pages
...and so deep — Eock me to sleep, mother ! Eock me to sleep ! Come, let your brown hair just shaded with gold, Fall on your shoulders again as of old...with its sunny-edged shadows once more, Haply will rise the sweet visions of yore ; Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep — Eock me to sleep, mother... | |
 | Women - 1867 - 726 pages
...brain. Slumber's soft calms o'er my heavy lids creep ; Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with gold,...shoulders again as of old ; Let it drop over my forehead to night, Shading my faint eyes away from the light ; For with its sunny-edged shadows once more Haply... | |
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