 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
 | 1902 - 708 sider
...— 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... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 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 or leap— i0 If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1892 - 144 sider
...feel your fingers let them through I But they answer, " Are your cowslips of the meadows " 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... | |
 | Franklin Monroe Sprague - 1892 - 528 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 or leap; If we cared for the meadows, it were merely To drop down in them, and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 470 sider
...btave ne quist in the dark of the coal-shadowc ; Frum your pleasures fair and fine I Tb * For oh,** aay the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run or...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. • Our kneee tremble soroly in the stooping, We fall upon our faces, trying to go ; And, underneath... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1894 - 586 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... | |
 | John Ulrich Ransom - 1894 - 174 sider
...bitterly ! They are weeping in1 the play time of the others, In the country of the free.2 For oh ! say the children, we are weary, And we cannot run or leap ; If3 we care for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep..] Our knees tremble sorely... | |
 | Reginald Heber Howe - 1895 - 172 sider
...early, and sit up late, and eat the bread of carefulness. Yes, " oh, say the children " even : — " We are weary, And we cannot run or leap. If we cared...For all day we drag our burden tiring Through the coal dark, underground — Or all day we drive the wheels of iron In the factories round and round."... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1895 - 132 sider
...Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, 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... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1895 - 484 sider
...young children receive who are shut up at ceaseless, grinding labor in mines and factories? "For oh, say the children, we are weary, And we cannot run or leap; If we cared for any meadows, it were surely To drop down in them and sleep." John Fiske, it was supposed, had made an original contribution... | |
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