 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...DYING CHILD. THE cottage was aithatched one, its outside old and mean ; Yet everything within that cot was wondrous neat and clean : The night was dark and stormy, — the wind was blowing wild : — A patient mother sat beside the death-bed of her child, — A little worn-out creature... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...JIM. i cottage was a thatched one, the outside old >д_ and mean, Щ But all within that little cot was wondrous neat and clean; The night was dark and stormy, the wind was howling wild, As a patient mother sat beside the death-bed of her child: A little worn-out creature, his once bright... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - Elocution - 1886 - 390 pages
...Little Jim. 1. The cottage was a thatched one, the outside old and mean, But all within that little cot was wondrous neat and clean ; The night was dark and stormy, the wind was howling wild, As a patient mother sat beside the death-bed of her child : A little worn-out creature, his once bright... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...DYING CHILD. 'HE cottage was a thatched one, its outside old and mean ; Yet everything within that cot was wondrous neat and clean : The night was dark and stormy— the wind was blowing wild; A patient mother sat beside the death-bed of her child — A little, worn-out creature... | |
 | Readers - 1889 - 220 pages
...was dark and stormy, the wind was howling wild, As a patient mother sat beside the death-bed of hei child : A little worn-out creature, his once bright eyes grown dim: It was a collier's wife and child, they called him little Jim. And oh ! to see the briny tears fast hurrying down her... | |
 | English literature - 1890 - 632 pages
...POOR LITTLE JIM. cottage was a thatched one, the outside old and mean, But all within that little cot was wondrous neat and clean ; The night was dark and stormy, the wind was howlin| wild, As a patient mother sat beside the death-bed of hei child: A little worn-out creature,... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 pages
...Dying Child. *HE cottage was a thatched one, its outside old and mean; Yet everything within that cot was wondrous neat and clean: The night was dark and stormy — the wind was blowing wild; A patient mother sat beside the death bed of her child — A little worn-out creature... | |
 | James Vincent Coombs - Elocution - 1891 - 420 pages
...LITTLE JIM. The cottage was a thatched one, the outside old and mean, But all within that little cot was wondrous neat and clean ; The night was dark and stormy, the wind was howling wild, As a patient mother sat beside the death-bed of her child : A little worn-out creature, his once bright... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...Dying Child. \ Ht. cottage was a thatched one, its outside old and 1 mean; everything within that cot was wondrous neat and clean: The night was dark and stormy— the wind was blowing ' niother sat beside the death bed of her child — 1 e worn-out creature — his once bright... | |
 | Flora N. Kightlinger - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1892 - 466 pages
...LITTLE JIM. The cottage was a thatched one, the outside old and mean, But all within that little cot was wondrous neat and clean ; The night was dark and stormy, the wind was howling wild, As a patient mother sat beside the death-bed of her child : A little worn-out creature, his once bright... | |
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And oh ! to see the briny tears Fast hurrying down her cheek, As she offered up... 
