 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...of want And the walk that costs a meal ! " O! but for one short hour — A respite however brief I No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief ! A 1 ittle weeping would ease my heart ; But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders... | |
 | 1861 - 676 pages
...my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! J Cowper feelingly notes how those who never pass their brick-wall bounds to range the fields and... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 530 pages
...my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want. And the walk that costs a meal...tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and tbread ! With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...my head, And the grass beneath my feet : For only one short hour To feel ax 1 used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal...respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for Love or TTope, But only time for Grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart ; But in their briny bed My tears... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bnt only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop...fingers weary and •worn, With eyelids heavy and red, ale wollten fie mir geigen il; ru fonnigen gebern unb mid) mit bem grueling foppen. *) O nur einmal... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1844 - 622 pages
...my bead, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel,' Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! " Ob but for one short hour ! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only... | |
 | 1847 - 800 pages
...my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour, To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal!" work-house. Those who do such high sounding charities " have received their reward." The impoverished... | |
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 316 pages
...my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal ! *) 0 hot for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, Bat only... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1846 - 562 pages
...my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal...must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread ! 398 Hood's Poems. [June. " With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in... | |
 | 1846 - 332 pages
...eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring. ' Oh, but for one short hour ! A respite however brief!...their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Would hinder the needle and thread.' Monday Morning. On Sunday, nobody stirred in the house till very... | |
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Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal! 
