 we are weary, And we cannot run or leap; If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping; We fall upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest...  Education in the Nineteenth Century - Side 138redigeret af - 1901 - 274 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1914 - 532 sider
...machines, Et, la nuit nous laissant respirer ses pavots, Nous dormirons enfin comme les animaux.' (' If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep.'} But a still more terrible picture of English manners is supplied by the long poem entitled ' La Tamise.'... | |
 | 1843 - 834 sider
...mine?* Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh ! " say the children, " we are weary — And we cannot...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremhle sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our face, trying to go ; And underneath our... | |
 | 1843
...mine?* Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh ! " say the children, " we are weary — And we cannot...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our face, trying to go ; And underneath our... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 sider
...mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! " For oh," say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping — i day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 sider
...— And we young ones stand without. in our bewildering, And the graves are for the old !" "For oh," say the children, "we are weary, And we cannot run...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, — We fall upon our faces, trying to go ; And, underneath... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 560 sider
...?• Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal shadows From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall on our face trying to go ; And underneath our heavy... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 sider
...pious race. " For oh," say the children, " wo arc weary, And wo cannot run or leap — If we eared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sloop. Our kneas tremble sorely in the stooping— We fall upon our faces, trying to fao ; And, underneath... | |
 | 1846 - 308 sider
...mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal-shadows From your pleasures fair and fine. " For, oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall on our face trying to go ; And underneath our heavy... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 538 sider
...mine?* Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal shadows From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall on our face trying to go ; Antl underneath our heavy... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 318 sider
...mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! " For oh," say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our faces, trying to go ; And, underneath... | |
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