 | Percy Alfred Scholes - Music - 1927 - 196 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 her child, She rocked it and rated it till that on her,it smiled. * Then did she say: Now have I found this proverb true to prove The falling out of faithful... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English poetry - 1927 - 496 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... | |
 | Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 566 pages
...full sweet 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 this proverb true to prove, The Jailing... | |
 | William Peacock - American poetry - 1928 - 476 pages
...would not cease but cryed still, in sucking at her brest. She was full wearie of her watch, and greeved with her child, She rocked it and rated it, till that on her it smilde : Then did she say, Now have I found this proverbe true to proue, The falling out of faithfull... | |
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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. 
