 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1904 - 238 pages
...sweet, to bring the babe to rest, That would not C2ase, but cried still, in sucking at her breast. She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with..." Now have I found this proverb true to prove, The lallinq out of faithful friends renewing is of love." ofpleafant Containing (undnenew Sonets anonrl.'rtable... | |
 | Rosalind Travers - Finland - 1907 - 480 pages
...from a Finnish folk-song. LETTER XIV To Francis Clare, at Andredshurst FROM MIKONKATU 17, January " THEN did she say, ' Now have I found this proverb true to prove, The falling out of friends so true renewing is of love." " Need one add anything more, Dear? only that a far more serious... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - Calendars - 1908 - 460 pages
...full 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...till that on her it smiled. Then did she say, Now I have found this proverb true to prove The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of Love. ANON... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1913 - 410 pages
...full 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...falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love I"" The name Madrigal itself sounds Provcn^l, but there is a town so called in Castile. It was first... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - English poetry - 1914 - 628 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...falling out of faithful friends " Renewing is of love." R. EDWARDS, 1560. Tempora quae iuveni longa et diuturna videntur, Haec eadem cita sunt et fugitiva... | |
 | William Forbes Gray - English poetry - 1914 - 386 pages
...her watch, and grieved with her childe ; She rocked it, and rated it, till that on her it smilde ; Then did she say : " Now have I found this proverb true to prove, The falling out of faithful! freendes renewing is of love." Turberville wrote an elegy on Edwards, which ends — Ob ruth I he is... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...swe«t to bring the babe to rest, rhat would not cease, but cried still, in sucking at her breast. ,?he e shade. In what new region, to the just assigned, What new employments please the unbodied _ Then took I paper, pen, and ink, this proverb for to write, In register for to remain of such a worthy... | |
 | Leonard Southerden Wood - Children - 1921 - 396 pages
...full 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...: She rocked it, and rated it, Till that on her it smil'd. Then did she say, ' Now have I found This proverb true to prove, " The falling out of faithful... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...would not cease but cried still, in suckShe was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child, 5 She rocked it, and rated it, till that on her it smiled....In register for to remain of such a worthy wight: 10 As she proceeded thus in song unto her little brat, Much matter uttered she of weight, in place... | |
 | Edmondstoune Duncan - Ballads, English - 1927 - 658 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 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. Then took I paper,... | |
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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. 
