 Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart, as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of...  The Silent Partner - Page 1051914Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...tarry long and late; Prize your spring till it be past, Only, only love me last! BOCK ME TO SLEEP. BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as ot yore; Kiss from my forehead... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1898 - 712 pages
...Herts. WB GERISH. SOURCE oí' QUOTATION.—Where can I find these lines ?— Backward, turn backward, О time, in your flight ; Make me a child again Just for to-night. I have an idea they occur in a poem of Eliza Cook's. JA. S. Kilburn. ITALIAN LAW.—What is the heaviest... | |
 | 1861 - 144 pages
...And makes them fresh, and fair, and green Sweet homes wherein to live and die. JameiJtutKll Lowell BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight ! Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore • Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 712 pages
...idolized, answered, "I am now bound for heaven, and I take the stars IN MY WAT." ROCK ME TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time ! in your flight, Make me a child again — just for to night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 404 pages
...sacrificed, the teacher's duty is plain. Hang the rebels, and save the country. H. ROCK ME TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time! in your flight, Make me a child again—just for to night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, v Take me again to your heart... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - Soldiers' writings, American - 1862 - 252 pages
...sank into forgetful ness, repeating over and over those .sweet strains: " Backward, turn backward. 0 Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Over my slumbers... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - 1864 - 244 pages
...sank into forgetfulness, repeating over and over those sweet strains : " Backward, turn backward, 0 Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Over my slumbers... | |
 | Lydia M. Millard - Women authors, American - 1865 - 276 pages
...whole heart in an imploring wail and impassioned prayer, as she sings, — " Backward, turn backward, 0 Time in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night; Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore." I hear, through... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 pages
...gaze on each beautiful star." "ROCK ME TO SLEEP, MOTHER." ANONFMOUS. BACKWARD, turn backward, oh ! Time in your flight ; Make me a child again, just for to-night ; Mother, come back from that echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore. Kiss from my... | |
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