 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!  The New Mirror - Page 332edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1861 - 676 pages
...weather is warm and bright, While underneath 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 primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...— work — As prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd, As...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... | |
 | 1844 - 858 pages
...Hand, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand. Work— work — work !...to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet— With the sky above my head. And the gross beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - Great Britain - 1844 - 316 pages
...As prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gusset, end seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heard is sick, and the brain benumb'd, As well as the weary...me their .sunny backs And twit me with the spring '**). *) ©cb,affe! Waffe! fcíjuffe! 50tcme7írbett §6rt nimmer auf; unb пае ifl if)t Coijn? (Sin... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...heard is sick, and the brain beoumb'd, As well as the weary hand "). Work! work! work! In the dnll December light, And work! work! work! When the weather...show me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring "*).. ') <3cb,affe! fdjaffe! fdjaffe! SOîeme Arbeit 6.6rt nimmer auf ; unb rcaê ift ¡fir Ссфп?... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...— work, As prisoners work, for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam ; Seam, and gusset, and band ; Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd As...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand ! " Work — work — work,...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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand ! " Work — work — work,...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... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...work — As prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, — Seam, and gusset, and band, — Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd, As...to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my fret, For only one short hour To feel... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the beart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand ! "Work — work — work,...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... | |
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