 | American essays - 1903 - 1362 pages
...Pasterinde) and I have several times returned home reluctantly at midnight. I humming sadly, — " And does it not seem hard to you When all the sky is clear and bine, And I should like so much to play, To !..•••• to go to bed b; day ? " As we passed close... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1915 - 878 pages
...quiet during the night except the neighbourhood. ' And does it not seem hard to you,' wrote Sidney, ' When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day ? ' The day assistant happened on the report, and was quite scandalised. ' If the night nurses are... | |
 | Education - 1913 - 366 pages
...confusing! I always did have a secret sympathy for Stevenson's little boy who "has to go to bed by day." And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day? How many times I have thought of him, here in Norway, where we go to bed with the wonderful, golden... | |
 | 1925 - 1084 pages
...every day ; Aijd every day that I've worked hard, There's fifty cents for a reward. A Thought It isn't very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink, With little children earning theirs Where some brute foreman yells and swears. Farewell to the Factory The doors are opened... | |
 | American periodicals - 1885 - 850 pages
...birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day f R." L. STEVENSON. From The London Quarterly Review. THE FIRST EPOCH IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.«... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Children's poetry - 1885 - 124 pages
...birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day ? II A THOUGHT IT is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink, With little children saying... | |
 | Kindergarten - 1916 - 336 pages
...birds кШ1 hopping on the tree Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...like so much to play To have to go to bed by day? Perhaps even if bed time is not changed to an hour later, as so many mothers do change it, yet the... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1908 - 822 pages
...rain potatoes. -SHAKESPEARE. Bliss was ¡tm that dawn to be alive. — WOKOBWORTH. Vol. xxxv. -20. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to ко to bed by day? — RLS Thou straggler into loving arms, young chmbrr-up of knees, When I forget... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - Child development - 1892 - 264 pages
...grown-up people's feet Still going past me on the street. And does it not seem hard to yon, That when the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, I have to go to bed by day ? " Mr. Hopkinson Smith has written a witty little monograph on this relation... | |
 | Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky...like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day ? AT THE SEASIDE. When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore.... | |
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IN winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street.... 
