 THE sky is dark and the hills are white As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night, And this is the song the storm-king sings, As over the world his cloak he flings : "Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep;" He rustles his wings and gruffly sings : "Sleep,...  A Little Book of Western Verse - Page 92by Eugene Field - 1890 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Goodridge Bliss Roberts - American poetry - 1891 - 796 pages
...sea Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three — Wynken, Blynken, And Nod. NORSE LULLABY. THE sky is dark and the hills are white As the storm-king...gruffly sings : "Sleep, little one, sleep." On yonder mountain side a vine Clings at the foot of a mother pine ; The tree bends over the trembling thing... | |
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Goodridge Bliss Roberts - American poetry - 1891 - 728 pages
...shoe rocked the fishermen three Wynken, Blynken, And Nod. GEORGE WW HO UGH TON. 277 NORSE LULLABY. THE sky is dark and the hills are white As the storm-king...from the north to-night, And this is the song the storin-king sings, As over the world his cloak he flings : "Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep;" He rustles... | |
 | Catholic universities and colleges - 1903 - 752 pages
...hills are white, As the storm king speeds from the north to-night, And this is the song the storm king sings, As over the world his cloak he flings: 'Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep.' " We give the following lines out of " A Japanese Lullaby " so that one may discern, by comparison,... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep — What shall you fear when I am here ? Sleep, little one, sleep." HE sky is dark and the hills are white As the storm-king...mother pine ; The tree bends over the trembling thing The king may sing in his bitter flight, The tree may croon to the vine to-night, But the little snowflake... | |
 | MARY E. BURT - 1914 - 260 pages
...Down he went into the sea, And the winter bides with me. Just a little child was he. NORSE LULLABY THE sky is dark and the hills are white As the storm-king...wings and gruffly sings: " Sleep, little one, sleep." The tree bends over the trembling thing, And only the vine can hear her sing: " Sleep, sleep, little... | |
 | Music - 1898 - 1420 pages
...prevailing motive is a verybeautiful and charming one. It is on the poem by Eugene Field,, beginning, "The sky is dark and the hills are white, as the stormking speeds from the north tonight," and the refrain which always comes back, "Sleep, little one, sleep." (From the Ryder Music Pub. Co.) TWO... | |
 | Isabel Moore - Readers - 1906 - 216 pages
...noth Ing tgn der spgo kled rgst Igss mO ment pCep Ing si lent ly an swSred fin Sas NORSE LULLABY. The sky is dark, and the hills are white, As the storm-king...north tonight, And this is the song the storm-king sing?, As over the world his cloak he flings : " Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep ; " He ruffles his... | |
 | John Benjamin Wisely, Sarah Elizabeth Griswold - English language - 1906 - 300 pages
...write neatly. Be sure to spell and punctuate correctly. Lesson 68 The Word Write THE NORSE LULLABY |~~*HE sky is dark and the hills are white As the...speeds from the north to-night ; And this is the song that the storm-king sings, As over the world his cloak he flings : " Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep,"... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - Children's poetry - 1905 - 130 pages
...one lesson I would leave thee, For every day. j EUGENE FIELD AMBBICA, 1850-1895 Norse Lullaby1 The sky is dark and the hills are white As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night ; And/this is the song the storm-king sings, As over the world his cloak he flings : " Sleep, sleep,... | |
 | Eugene Field - 1910 - 584 pages
...the sweet peace that hallowed his waiting When Nellie was coming from over the sea. NORSE LULLABY THE sky is dark and the hills are white As the storm-king..."Sleep, little one, sleep." On yonder mountain-side a vino Clings at the foot of a mother pine; The tree bends over the trembling thing, And only the vine... | |
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