 Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Halaman 471844Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 halaman
...— work ! From weary chime to chime ! Work, — work, — work, As prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band,...primrose sweet, — With the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one1 short hour To feel as I used to feel Before I knew the woes of... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 halaman
...Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd. As well as the weary hand. " Work — work — work,...sweet — • With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour. To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 halaman
...and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, " Work — work — work ! In the dull December light,...primrose sweet — With the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 halaman
...I In the dull December light, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright ; no While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hoar To feel as I used to feel Before I knew the woes of... | |
 | Emily Pierpont De Lesdernier - 1868 - 360 halaman
...and gusset, and band— Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand. "Oh, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and...primrose sweet, With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet! For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of... | |
 | Charles Collyns Walkey - 1868 - 76 halaman
...stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel, as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 halaman
...The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. " Oh 1 but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet ; With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel Before I knew the woes of... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1868 - 314 halaman
...out-door holiday — a holiday to be spent, if possible, in some green spot of earth, where you may " breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above your head And the grass beneath your feet" — those of the unwashed whose lot it is to dwell in stony,... | |
 | 1868 - 736 halaman
...ran along the garden's foot ; oh ! to be able to think, as I used to think, and be as I used to be. " Oh, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet ; Mrith the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet; For only one short hour To feel as I... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 halaman
...— work ! From weary chime to chime, Work — work — work — As prisoners work for crime ! Band, and gusset, and seam, Seam, and gusset, and band,...primrose sweet — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet ! For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of... | |
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