 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 pages
...flower ; Smoothing their stems while, resting on his knees, He binds a nosegay which he never sees ; Along the homeward path then feels his way, Lifting...his eyes, Presents a sighing parent with the prize. BLOOMFIELD. Lifting his brow, &c. — An allusion to the singular habit observed in all blind persons... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...flower; Smoothing their stems, while resting on his knees, He binds a nosegay which he never sees ; Along the homeward path then feels his way, Lifting...his eyes, Presents a sighing parent with the prize. — BLOOMKIELD. A SHEPHERD'S LIFE. NEGLECTED now the early daisy lies , Ntir thnu, pale primrose, bloom'st... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1892 - 1028 pages
...yellow flower. Soothing their stems while resting on his knees He binds a nosegay which he never sees; Along the homeward path then feels his way Lifting...against the shining day, And with a playful rapture in his eyes Presents a sighing parent with the prize. In the diary kept by Willie's teacher, it is... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...flower; Smoothing their stems while, resting on his knees, I le binds a nosegay which he never sees ; Along the homeward path then feels his way, Lifting...his eyes. Presents a sighing parent with the prize. A SHEPHERD'S LIFE. NEGLECTED now the early daisy lies; Nor thou, pale primrose, bloom'st the only pnze... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...flower; Smoothing their stems while, resting on his knees, He binds a nosegay which he never sees ; Along the homeward path then feels his way, Lifting...his eyes, Presents a sighing parent with the prize. A SHEPHERD'S LIFE. NEGLECTED now the early daisy lies ; Nor thou, pale primrose, bloom'st the only... | |
 | Leonard Southerden Wood - 1921 - 396 pages
...Creeps on the warm green turf for many an hour. And plucks by chance the white and yellow flower ; Along the homeward path then feels his way, Lifting...his eyes Presents a sighing parent with the prize. JAMES HOGG LXXXIII A BOY'S SONG Where the pools are bright and deep, Where the grey trout lies asleep,... | |
 | 1866
...flower ; Smoothing their stems, while rusting on his knees, He binds a nosegay, which he never sees ; Along the homeward path then feels his way, Lifting...his eyes, Presents a sighing parent with the prize. No. 11. No. 11. MY OWN PETS. JHAVE told you about some of my brother Harry's Pets ; now I will tell... | |
 | David Shuttleton - 2007 - 182 pages
...himself as he 'plucks by chance the white and yellow flow'r' to bring home to his distraught mother: She blest that day, which he remembers too, When he...his eyes, And all the colours of the morning rise. — (13)51 When the narrator asks the mother 'When was this work of bitterness begun?' she wipes away... | |
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Pond'ring how best his moments to employ, He sings his little songs of nameless joy, Creeps on the warm green turf for many an hour, And plucks by chance the white and yellow flower ; Smoothing their stems, while resting on his knees, He binds a nosegay... 
