 I hear in the chamber above me • The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3551860Full view - About this book
 | Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1869 - 202 pages
...hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet ; And the sound of a door that is opened, j And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in...then a silence ! Yet I know by their merry eyes, They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 pages
...above me The patter of little/eet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and svreeL " From my study I see in the lamp-light, Descending...golden hair. " A whisper, and then a silence : Yet 1 know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take mo by surprise. " A sudden... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...And voices soft, and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad ball stair, Grave Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden...then a silence ; Yet I know by their merry eyes, They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden... | |
 | 1860 - 562 pages
...opened, And voices soft and sweet From my study I sec in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with...then a silence; Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden... | |
 | 1860 - 794 pages
...Descending the broad hall-stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with solden hair. о A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 452 pages
...pleasing poet ever wrote. Miserable solitary beings, see what improving and softening influences you miss! Between the dark and the daylight, When the night...then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden... | |
 | 1861 - 898 pages
...hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet. The sound of a door that is opened, And Toices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight,...then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden... | |
 | 1861 - 228 pages
...opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with...then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden... | |
 | 1861 - 820 pages
...my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall-stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegro, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...Without the crown of pride ; They were moving slow, in weeds of woe, No maiden was by their side ! THE CHILDREN'S HOUR. BETWEEN the dark and the daylight,...then a silence : Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stair way, A sudden... | |
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