 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child : She rocked it, and she rated it, until on her it smiled : Then did she say, " Now have I found the proverb true to prove, That Falling out of faithful friends is the renewing of love." Then took... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - Poets laureate - 1879 - 346 pages
...sweet, to bring the babe to rest, That would not cease, but cried still, in sucking at her breast. She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child, She rocked it, and rated it, until on her it smil'd ; Then did she say, ' Now have I found the proverb true to prove, The falling... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - Poets laureate - 1879 - 344 pages
...child, She rocked it, and rated it, until on her it smil'd ; Then did she say, ' Now have I found the proverb true to prove, The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love." This has been set to music, and is one of the most beautiful and popular of our old madrigals. Edwards... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1869 - 588 pages
...full sweet, To lull the babe to rest, That would not cease, but cried still Upon its mother's breast. She was full weary of her watch, And grieved with...it, Till that on her it smiled. Then did she say, Xow have I found This proverb true doth prove i The falling out of faithful friends Renewing is of... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...full sore, to bring the babe to rest, That would not rest but cried still in sucking at her breast : She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child, She rocked it and rated it, until on her it smiled : Then did she say now have I found the proverb true to prove The falling out... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...full sore, to bring the babe to rest, That would not rest but cried still in sucking at her breast : She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child, She rocked it and rated it, until on her it smiled : Then did she say now have I found the proverb true to prove The falling out... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...full sore, to bring the babe to rest, That would not rest but cried still in sucking at her breast : She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child, She rocked it and rated it, until on her it smiled : Then did she say now have I found the proverb true to prove The falling out... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...breast : She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child, She rocked it and rated it, until on her it smiled : Then did she say now have I found the proverb true to prove The falling out of faithful friends is the renewing of love. ******* I marvel... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...to rest, That would not cease, but cried still, in sucking at her breast. She was full weary of the watch, and grieved with her child, She rocked it and rated it, until on her it smiled ; Then did she say, ' Now have I found the proverb true to prove, ' The falling... | |
 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...child ; She rocked it, and rated it, until on her it smiled ; Then did she say : " Now have I found the proverb true to prove, The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love." r i; 34 GLEANINGS FROM THE ENGLISH POETS. A Then took I paper, pen, and ink, this proverb for to write.... | |
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IN going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept, I heard a wife sing to her child, that long before had wept. She sighed sore, and sang full sweet, to bring the babe to rest, That would not cease, but cried still, in sucking at her breast. 
