 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854 - 270 sider
...— a broken chair— And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank, For sometimes falling there." " 0 ! hut for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for love and hope, But only time for grief ! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My... | |
 | 1854 - 380 sider
...she sings the following doleful lines : 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. MY COUSIN WILLIAM. T WAS as sure as one human heart could be of ans*' other, that my cousin William... | |
 | Solon Robinson - 1854 - 436 sider
...;' mitil she sighed and sung : " ' Oh, 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.' " " And did Walter do nothing ?" What could he do ? He knew nothing — had never iearned to do anything... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 sider
...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 ! " Henceforth, you will add, I wish to occupy ujyself with what concerns the common people, with their... | |
 | SOLON ROBINSON - 1854 - 436 sider
...;' on til she sighed and sung: " ' Oh, 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.' " " And did Walter do nothing ?" What could he do 1 He knew nothing—had never .earned to do anything;... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 sider
...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 ! " O ! but for one short hour ! A respite however brief ! No blessed leisure for love or hope. But... | |
 | Edward Toliver - 1855 - 348 sider
...head, And the grass beneath her feet; For only one short hour, To feel as she used to feel, Before she knew the woes of want, And the walk that costs a meal." And oh, that Frank Weston could have heard the short, quick cough, the weary sigh of fatigue, and could... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 sider
...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...weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red; A woman sate in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 sider
...bead, 1 Ani the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hoar To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal...time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, Bat in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread !'' With fingers... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 sider
...feet ; For only one short hour to feel as I used to feel. Before I knew the woes of want, and tlie walk that costs a meal! " Oh, but for one short hour!...Hope, but only time for Grief ! A little weeping would case my heart ; but in their briny bed .My tears must stop, for every drop hinders needle and thread."... | |
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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! 
