 He saw her lift her eyes; he felt The soft hand's light caressing, And heard the tremble of her voice, As if a fault confessing. "I'm sorry that I spelt the word: I hate to go above you, Because," — the brown eyes lower fell, — "Because, you see,...  Scribners Monthly - Page 5681872Full view - About this book
 | Albert Newton Raub - Readers - 1878 - 444 pages
...the brown eyes lower fell, — " Because, you see, I love you ! " 10. Still memory to a gray -haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl !...grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! 11. He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 530 pages
...lower fell, " Because, you see, I love you 1 " Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child face is showing. Dear girl ! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing I He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and his... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 580 pages
...hate to go above you, Because," — the brown eyes lower fell,— " Because, you see, I love you ! " Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl ! the grosses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How... | |
 | Choice poems - English poetry - 1879 - 206 pages
...— the brown eyes lower fell, — ' Because, you see, I love you ! ' Still memory to a grey-hair'd man That sweet child-face is showing, Dear girl !...and his loss, Like her, — because they love him. John Greenleaf Whittier : born, 1807. An American poet, a Quaker, like Bernard Barton (see p. 54).... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 458 pages
...— the brown eyes lower fell, — " Because, you see, I love you ! " Still memory to a gray -haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl !...triumph and his loss, Like her, • — because they lore him. GARIBALDI. IN trance and dream of old, God's prophet saw The casting down of thrones. Thou,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 536 pages
...memory to a gray-haired man 1'hat sweet child face is showing. Dear girl ! the grasses on her £rave Have forty years been growing ! He lives to learn,...and his loss, Like her, — because they love him. GARIBALDI. IN trance and dream of old, God's prophet saw The casting down of thrones, Thou, watchmg... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - English poetry - 1880 - 408 pages
...caressing, And^ieard the tremble of her voice, As if a fault confessing " I 'm sorry that I spelt the word: Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face...and his loss, Like her, — because they love him. JOHN GREENLEAP WHITTIJSB ' ALADDIN. WHEN I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...word: I hate to go above you, Because,"—the brown eyes lower fell,— "Because, you see, I love you!" Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face...above him Lament their triumph and his loss, Like her,—because they love him. XXXIII. —John G. Whittier. How .much there is that's beautiful In this... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 524 pages
...hate to go above you, Because," — the brown eyes lower fell,— " Because, you see, I love you ! " Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face is showing, Dear girl ! the grasses on her graveHave forty years been growing ! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few who pass above... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - Elocution - 1881 - 498 pages
...hate to go above you, Because " — the brown eyes lower fell — " Because, you see, I love you ! " Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face...and his loss, Like her — because they love him. WHITTIER PARRHASIUS AND THE CAPTIVE. THERE stood an unsold captive in the mart, A gray-hair'd and majestical... | |
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