 Rain falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 92edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 786 pages
...smiles as she never smiled. This child is not mine as the first was, I canuot sing it to rest, I canuot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast....one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone 1 1 Transfigures its golden hair." VOL. LXIX. — NO. CCCCXXVIL We have still a brief space left for... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...earthward, Rain falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven... | |
 | 1851 - 812 pages
...bud In full blossom, And smiles aa ehe never t railed. This child ii not mine as the firit wa», 1 cannot sing It to rest, I cannot lift It up fatherly,...cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light ol' the heaven she's gone to Transfigures ¡u gulden hair."j We have still a brief space left for Mr.... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...changeling, A little angel child, That seems like her bud in full blossom, And smiles as she never smiled. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot...it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it liee in my little one's cradle, And aits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's... | |
 | 1855 - 724 pages
...earthward, Rain falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot I if t It up fatherly And bless It upon my breast; Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sita... | |
 | 1851 - 792 pages
...never smiled. This child is not mine a; the first was, I caunot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it np fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's eradlo, And site in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its... | |
 | 1853 - 1042 pages
...morning I see it Where she always used to lie, And I feel as weak as a violet Alone 'neath the awful sky. This child is not mine, as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I caimot lift it fatherly, And bless it upon my breast : Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. • This child is not mine as the first wasi I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast ; Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 274 pages
...Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. This child is not mine as the first wass I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven... | |
 | 1883 - 846 pages
...little angel child, That seems like her bud in full blossom, And smiles as she never smiled. . . . It lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair ; And the light of the heaven she '.- gone to Transfigures its golden hair. The 'bud in full blossom' is another of the notes of... | |
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