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
| William Swinton - Readers (Elementary) - 1883 - 394 pages
...spelt the word : Because " — the brown eyes lower fell — " Because, * you see, I love you." 10. Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face...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 his... | |
| William Swinton - 1883 - 396 pages
...that I spelt the word: Because " — the brown eyes lower fell — "Because, you see, I love you." 10. Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face...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 his... | |
| 1883 - 994 pages
...the sweet browneyed heroine of the country school and her bashful boy hero of half a century ago: " Still memory to a gray-haired man That sweet child-face...grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing !" But only the poet knows by what name his little heroine was called. Mr. Ayer, living in the next... | |
| William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 398 pages
...that I spelt the word: Because" — the brown eyes lower fell — " Because, you see, I love you." 10. Still memory to a gray-haired man - That sweet child-face...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 his... | |
| Albert Ellery Berg - Actors - 1884 - 824 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. JOHN G. WHITTIEE. FARE THEE WELL. — LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE. 581 FARE THEE WELL. FARE thee well !... | |
| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 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...pass above him Lament their triumph and his loss Like her—because they love him. MY TRIUMPH. The autumn-time has come; On woods that dream of bloom, And... | |
| Missions - 1884 - 1304 pages
...lower fell, — ' Because, you see, I love you !' In Sdwol-Dayg. 131 Still memory to a grey-haired man That sweet child-face is showing : Dear girl !...and his loss, Like her — because they love him. THE QUESTION OF RITUAL. BY THE LATE KEV. THOMAS JOXES. IT cannot be matter of surprise that, in these... | |
| William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1884 - 392 pages
...Because " (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!...above him Lament their triumph and his loss, Like her,—because they love him. TELLING THE BEES. Here is the place : right over the hill Runs the path... | |
| Children's literature, American - 1884 - 530 pages
...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...growing ! He- lives to learn in life's hard school Iluw few whi> pass above him Lament thc-ir triumph, and his loss, Like her — because they love him.... | |
| Elocution - 1885 - 332 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...grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing. Lament his triumph and his loss, Like her — because they love him. JG WHITTIKR. WAITING BY THE GATE.... | |
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