 | Baptists - 1878 - 300 pages
...Varzin to devote myself to the production of rye and oats." — London Times. POETRY. foetrj). TIRED MOTHERS. A LITTLE elbow leans upon your knee — Your...do not heed the velvet touch Of warm, moist fingers holding your's so tight, You do not prize the blessings overmuch — You almost are too tired to pray... | |
 | ALPHONSO A. HOPKINS - 1876 - 376 pages
...evidence of this, we have the following, written for The Aldine. and thence widely re-printed : TIRED MOTHERS. A little elbow leans upon your knee, Your...do not heed the velvet touch Of warm, moist fingers holding yours so tight ; You do not prize this blessing overmuch ; You almost are too tired to pray,... | |
 | Elder James A. Little - 1872 - 862 pages
...leans upon your knee, Your tireflknctï, that has so much to bear; A child's dear eyes are l<*okint; lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled hair....Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch Of warm, moist finders, folding yours so tight;You do not prize this MessinK overmuch, You almost are too tired to... | |
 | William Darrah - 1875 - 200 pages
...129 TENDEE WOBDS FOE WEAEY MOTHEES. MRS. ALRERT SMITH. A LITTLE (elbow leans upon your knee — -CA. Your tired knee, that has so much to bear, A child's...do not heed the velvet touch Of warm moist fingers holding you so tight ; You do not prize this blessing over much ; You are almost too tired to pray... | |
 | John De Fraine - 1877 - 56 pages
...There's one kiss for her golden tresses, And two for her sleepy eyes." ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER. TIEED MOTHERS. A LITTLE elbow leans upon your knee, Your...folding yours so tight; You do not prize this blessing over much, You almost are too tired to pray to-night. But it is blessedness ! a year ago I did not... | |
 | Poetry - 1878 - 272 pages
...grateful that the thorns were crowned With such a glorious flower. AC ROBERTS. TIRED MOTHERS. A I.ITTI.E elbow leans upon your knee, Your tired knee, that has so much to bear; A child's dear eves are looking lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled hair. Perhaps you do not heed the velvet... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1878 - 122 pages
...upon your knee, — From underneath a thatch of tangled hair. Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch Your tired knee, that has so much to bear ; A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly Of warm, moist fingers, holding yours so tight; You do not prize this blessing overmuch : You are almost... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1879 - 298 pages
...praise Him more, And feel and tell, amid the choir divine, How fully I am His and He is mine. fliotber8. A LITTLE elbow leans upon your knee — ** Your tired...so tight ; You do not prize this blessing overmuch — But it is a blessedness. A year ago I did not see it as I do to-day — We are so dull and thankless,... | |
 | Bertha Meyer (Frau) - Child development - 1879 - 222 pages
...them and draw them towards us, so that they will always be frank and unreserved with us ? A LESSON. 98 A little elbow leans upon your knee— Your tired...do not heed the velvet touch Of warm, moist fingers holding yours so tight You do not prize the blessings overmuch— You almost are too tired to pray... | |
 | Alphonso Alva Hopkins - American poetry - 1879 - 384 pages
...will ask, " How, then, could she be so touched by its possible pain ? Is poetic M:nti'A little dhow leans upon your knee, Your tired knee that has so much to bcar; A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled hair." Page 7. •... | |
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A little elbow leans upon your knee, Your tired knee that has so much to bear; A child's dear eyes are looking lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled hair... 
