| Frederick Turell Gray - 1849 - 92 páginas
...my brow. I remember, I remember, The fir-trees dark and high, I used to think their slender spires Were close against the sky ! It was a childish ignorance ; But now 'tis little joy, To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. MY MOTHER'S VOICE. MY mother's voice falls on mine ear... | |
| Frederick Turell Gray - 1849 - 74 páginas
...my brow. I remember, I remember, The fir-trees dark and high, I used to think their slender spires Were close against the sky ! It was a childish ignorance ; But now 'tis little joy, To know I'm further off from heaven MY MOTHER'S VOICE. MY mother's voice falls on mine ear Like to a crystal bell,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 páginas
...now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow! I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 páginas
...now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignoranee, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE SONG... | |
| 1851 - 496 páginas
...in feathers, then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender spires, Were close against the sky ! It was a childish ignorance, — But now 'tis little joy To know... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...in feathers, then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender spires, Were close against the sky ! It was a childish ignorance, — But now 'tis little joy To know... | |
| Thomas Binney - 1851 - 166 páginas
...applies : — " I remember — I remember The poplars straight and high ; I used to think their spiry tops Were close against the sky. " It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To KNOW I 'm further off from heaven Than when I mas a boy." Sir Powell Buxton delighted... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 páginas
...flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high;...ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther otf from heav'n Than when I was a boy. Ode. Oh! well may poets make a fuss In summer time, and sigh,... | |
| Alice Bradley Haven - 1857 - 210 páginas
...spoke his simple, earnest faith. He was not the only one who can feel the pathos of the ballad — "But now, 'tis little joy — To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy." Manhood's trust has been tried to the very core ; it has been buffeted by doubts and weakened by temptation,... | |
| 1853 - 458 páginas
...now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. CVIII.— EARTH'S ANGELS. ANONYMOUS. WHY come not spirits from the realms of glory, To visit earth... | |
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