 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
 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin - 1882 - 56 pages
...his little song to " Children," closing with : " Ye are better than all the ballads That were ever sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." And the exquisite home and child feeling of " The Hanging of the Crane " ; — a picture so njinutely... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1882 - 838 pages
...wisdom of our books When compared with your caresses And the gladness of your looks? Ye are better ¡han all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are the living poems, And all the rest are dead." LONGFELLOW. Т was not a long journey, but I had travelled... | |
 | 1914 - 660 pages
...sweets for the youngsters included in the party. The gentle Longfellow wrote of children: Bret Harte "Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems And all the rest are dead." But the White Chief, when, with tears in his eyes, he first beheld Ina and her brothers, expressed... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 396 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. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 1807 — IN SCHOOL-DAYS. Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1883 - 700 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." Published weekly. Price $I.5O a year, or 6 cents single copy ! ~~ UNITY PULPIT. BOSTON. SERMONS OF... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 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. SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of old. In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Publishers' bindings - 1894 - 748 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. SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of old, In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
 | lady Constance Eleanora C. Howard - 1883 - 316 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 : Children. AND then there came a time which to her dying day Mollie never forgot. The day... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 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." HW LONGFELLOW. FLOWERS ON THE BANK. FLOWERS on the bank — we pass and call them gay : The primroses... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...Through the streets of the City In> Is wafted the fragrance they shed, 460 /'S 1 'OETICAL WORKS. l his Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. ns says, n ; SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of •a eeeeeeeeee«eee®eee®eeee®©eeeeeeeeeeeeeeese9eee.eeeeee... | |
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