 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
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 802 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 or leap ; If we car'd for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Onr knees tremble sorely in the... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 sider
...my brothers, 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 our... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 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... | |
 | 1924 - 1014 sider
...bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free. 399 "'For oh!" 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,... | |
 | Valerie Polakow - 1994 - 232 sider
...America "It is good when it happens," say the children, "that we die before our time" . . . "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... | |
 | John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 sider
...for up to 14 hours a day in very bad conditions. •'•"x*vFrom The Cry of the Children''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, 5 We fall upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath our... | |
 | Fred Guida - 2000 - 290 sider
...fell. It is known to have inspired Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Cry of the Children": "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... | |
 | Catherine Robson - 2001 - 270 sider
..."natural" element: 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 And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. (1l. 64-65,... | |
 | James R. Simmons, Jr - 2007 - 500 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 tremble sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our face, trying to go; And underneath our... | |
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