 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
 | 1863 - 150 pages
...the weather is warm and bright, While underneath the eaves the brooding swallows cling, As if to shew their sunny backs, and twit me with the Spring. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath of the primrose and cowslip sweet — With the sky above my head, and the grass beneath my feet, If only for... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1864 - 490 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 Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1864 - 580 pages
...in a well-known passage, connects the swallow with the earlier of the two seasons : — " . . . .' underneath the eaves, The brooding swallows cling...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring." Hood's Song of Oic Shirt. ALFBED A iMri;. Alrewas, Lichfield. PSALM xc. 9. (3rd S. v. 57.)— The following... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1864 - 72 pages
...in the following sentences : — 1. The governor's servants told them to fire upon the soldiers. 2. The brooding swallows cling, as if to show me their sunny backs, and twit me with the spring. 3. The nurse, wishing to see the city, stepped ont of the boat. 4. The bleak wind of March made her... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 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,...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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand. " Work — work — work, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny bucks And twit me with the spring. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand ! 8. " Work — work — work In the dull December light...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,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand. vin. " Work — work — work! In the dull December light,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the Spring. IX. " O ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With the sky above my head... | |
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