 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
 | Joseph Cook - 1880 - 324 sider
...? 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 our... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 sider
...mine? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coalshadows, 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 faces, trying to go ; And, underneath... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 sider
...Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, ' From your pleasures fair and fine! VI. es " 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, 70 We fall upon our faces, trying to go ; And, underneath... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1880 - 316 sider
...the dark of the coal shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine.' ' For oh ! ' say the children, i we are weary, And we cannot run or leap ; If we cared...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... | |
 | S. E. Thomas - 1881 - 504 sider
...weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free. " 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... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1881 - 426 sider
...children, " that we die before our time." In vain you call them into the fields to play. " 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 our... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1881 - 224 sider
...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... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 sider
...mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coalshadows, From your pleasures fair and fine! " For oh," at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes...listless length at noontide would he stretch, And Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We foil upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath our... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 sider
...bitterly ! They are weeping in the plnytime of the other«, In the country of the free •Por oh,' say the children, 'we are weary, And we cannot run or leap. If we cared for any meadows, it were merer/ To drop down in them and sleep. Our kroea tremble sorely la the stooping— We fall upon onr... | |
 | 1881 - 880 sider
...her quiet answer is " Yes, please." "For oh," soy the children, "wo are weary. And we cannot run and B l / M۴Z, * [YKP ҋ t cطϿ @ U 9^3N~ w >֡ T Thus wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning in her soul-stirring poem, " The Cry of the Children," and with... | |
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