 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!  The New Mirror - Page 332edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd, As well as the weary hand. 8. "Work! work! work! In the dull December light, And...me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head,... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1858 - 424 pages
...light: And write — write — write! When the weather is warm and bright ; While underneath the eavei 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! Ho blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for... | |
 | Plague Spot - Great Britain - 1859 - 632 pages
...— work — As prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd As...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... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb' d, As well as the weary hand. " Work ! work ! work !...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... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, " Work — work — work ! In the dull December tight, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm...to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With tile sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one sweet hour To feel... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...weary hand. " Work — work — work, In the dull December light, And work — work — work, AYhen the weather is warm and bright — While underneath...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1860 - 568 pages
...Workman, No. 6C. "I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, That it may seem their guilt." — Macbeth. " While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." " The Song of the Shirt." To which, perhaps, might be added the first six lines of Coleridge's " Sonnet... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1860 - 582 pages
...Workman, No. C6. "I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, That it may seem their guilt." — Macbeth. "While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." " The Song of the Shirt." To which, perhaps, might be added the first six lines of Coleridge's " Sonnet... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand ! " Work — work — work...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " O, but to breathe the breath With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet 1 For only... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 pages
...Seam, and gusset, and ^and, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed,As well as th& weary hand, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " O ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And... | |
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