 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
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1884 - 560 sider
...anear the mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1884 - 284 sider
...pleasures fair and fine ! " For oh," say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run or lean, ; V 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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 sider
...mine ? Leave us quiet, in the dark of the coal-shadows, from your pleasures fair and fine ! G 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1886 - 642 sider
...Leave us quiet in the dark of the coalshadows, From your pleasures fair and fine. VI. " 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... | |
 | 1886 - 856 sider
...to better purpose than when in words of flame it set fortb "The Cry of the Children:" — " For, O," say the children, "we are weary, And we cannot run or leap ; If we cared lor any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1924 - 980 sider
...They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free. "'For oh I' say the children, 'we are weary, And we cannot run or leap ; If we cared for meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep.' They look up with their pale and sunken faces,... | |
 | 1888 - 344 sider
...mine ? Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine I " 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1888 - 204 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 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1889 - 336 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 our... | |
 | Homer Greene - 1889 - 298 sider
...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 or leap j* If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely... | |
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