| 1826 - 558 pages
...learned and accurate editor. Professor Popkin, than whom America has never produced a scholar more pro* ' Lady bird, Lady bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam.' This fragment of a respectable little poem has soothed the slumhers of the German infant for... | |
| 1822 - 828 pages
...the faces and forms of the dead children. There must be, who have believed as I believed— who hare wept as I wept, at the! relation of that mournful 'history. They will, perhaps, also reinem*: ' hands the pretty speckled insect, die Lady IJird, and to have addressed to it the hidf sportive,... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...no foeman is here, I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee. Lady -bird ! Lady -bird ! fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam, List! list! to their cry and bewailing'! The pitiless spider is weaving their doom, Then Lady-bird,... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...is here, I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee. Lady-bird! Lady -bird! fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam, List! list ! to their cry and bewailing! The pitiless spider is weaviig their doom, Then Lady-bird,... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1826 - 538 pages
...learned and accurate editor. Professor Popkin, than whom America has never produced a scholar more pro* ' Lady bird, Lady bird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will roam.' This fragment of a respectable little poem has soothed the slumbers of the German infant for... | |
| James Kirke Paulding - 1834 - 456 pages
...shoulders, and quietly submitted to the guidance of the high constable of Elsingburgh. CHAPTER III. " Lady bird, lady bird, Fly away home, Your house is on fire, Your children will burn." Mather Goose's Melodies. IT was on a Saturday afternoon that the Long Finne was remanded to prison,... | |
| Caroline Anne Southey - 1839 - 256 pages
...faces and forms of the dead children. — There must he who have believed as I believed — who have wept as I wept, at the relation of that mournful history....insect, the Lady Bird, and to have addressed to it, as it prepared to fly, the half sportive, half serious warning, " Lady Bird, Lady Bird I fly away home... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 368 pages
...are ever few, Yet by many a voiceless token all my heart is known to you. K. Ladu-bird. Lady-bird, lady -bird, fly away home : Your house is on fire, your children will burn. GAMMER GURTON. Turn vix videre est, sed tamen ¡ntumis Haurire fas est sensubus. En tua Tractusqve... | |
| Caroline Bowles Southey - 1851 - 380 pages
...the faces and forms of the dead children. There must be who have believed as I believed — who have wept as I wept, at the relation of that mournful history....insect, the Lady Bird, and to have addressed to it, as it prepared to fly, the half sportive, half serious warning, " Lady Bird, Lady Bird ! fly away home... | |
| Eliza Lynn - 1851 - 906 pages
...was busy liberating a fly from a spider's net, or warming a fainting bee in her hand, or crying, " Lady bird ! lady bird ! fly away home ! Your house is on fire; and your children will bum" — in perfect belief that the lady bird would so fly away home — had... | |
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