 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
 | Charles Kingsley - Fairy tales - 1864 - 320 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. ERE begins the never-to-be-toomuch-studied account of the nine-hundred-and-ninety-... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks 1 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 - 1864 - 464 pages
...wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are tetter than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ;...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... | |
 | 1864 - 694 pages
...poets among men has addressed to children some beautiful verses, of which this is the last : — " Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For y P. arc living poems, And all the rest are dead." Surely he knew something of poetry — something,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
..."When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks? Ye are hetter than all the hallads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. MY LOST YOUTH. OFTEN I think of the heautiful town That is seated hy the sea ; Often in thought go... | |
 | Children's literature, English - 1879 - 204 pages
...been fond of children, and has written about them in many of his pieces. In one of them ho says : — Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead I Happy poet ! Happy children — especially when they are good ! c. H. NEVER TELL A LIE. " \YpEVER... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1866 - 300 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. CHRISTMAS BELLS. HEARD the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...When compared with your caresses. And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballade That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. SANDALPHOK HAVE you read in the Talmud of old, In the Legends the Eabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
 | A M. D'I - 1867 - 268 pages
...children ; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate Than reaches the trunks below. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." — LONGFELLOW. jjHE following morning, when Emmeline awoke, what was her surprise to see another little... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pages
...When compared with your caresses, For what are all our contrivings, 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. WEARINESS. 0 LITTLE feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fearsMust ache and... | |
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