Like desolation on a shipwrecked shore. There is no little child within me now, To sing back to the thrushes, to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple bough Laughs into blossoms, or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet Dances in the... Kansas in Literature - Page 43by William Herbert Carruth - 1900Full view - About this book
| 1881 - 520 pages
...back to the thrushes, to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple bough Laughs into blossoms, or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet...my cheeks are wet It is not with the blitheness of the child, But with the bitter sorrow of sad years. O moaning life, with life irreconciled ; O backward-looking... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...back to the thrushes, to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple-bough Laughs into blossoms, or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet...my cheeks are wet, It is not with the blitheness of the child, But with the bitter sorrow of sad years. RICHARDSON. O backward-looking thought ! O pain... | |
| 1888 - 654 pages
...back to the thrushes, to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple-bough Laughs into blossoms or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet Dances in the glad dew." It is in accordance with woman's constitution that she can make a home by herself much more easily... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 482 pages
...hack to the thrushes, to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple bough Laughs into blossoms, or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet...forgotten ; and if my cheeks are wet It is not with ihe blithcness of the child, But with the bitter sorrow of sad years. O moaning life, with life irrecouciled... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 pages
...back to the thrushes, to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple bough Laughs into blossoms, or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet...alas! The meaning of the daisies in the grass I have forgoiten ; and if my cheeks are wet It is not with the blitheness of the child, But with the bitter... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 pages
...blossom>', or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet Dances in the glad dew. Alits! alnsl The meaning of the daisies in the grass I have forgotten ; and if my cheek* are wet It is not with the blitheness of ihe child, But with the bitter sorrow of sad vears.... | |
| 1895 - 850 pages
...to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple bough Laughs into blossom, or a buttercup Plays in the sunshine, or a violet Dances In the glad dew:...blitheness of a child, But with the bitter sorrow of sail years. OL moaning life, with life trreconclled! Oh backward-looking thought: O pain: O tears!... | |
| Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 pages
...back to the thrushes, to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple-bough Laughs into blossoms, or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet...my cheeks are wet, It is not with the blitheness of the child, But with the bitter sorrow of past years. O moaning life, with life irreconciled; O backward-looking... | |
| Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 pages
...to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple-bough Laughs into blossoms, or a buttercup Flays with the sunshine, or a violet Dances in the glad...my cheeks are wet, It is not with the blitheness of the child, But with the bitter sorrow of past years. O moaning life, with life irreconciled; O backward-looking... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1900 - 252 pages
...back to the thrushes, to leap up When June winds kiss me, when an apple bough Laughs into blossoms, or a buttercup Plays with the sunshine, or a violet...my cheeks are wet It is not with the blitheness of the child, But with the bitter sorrow of sad years. O moaning life, with life irreconciled ; 0 backward-looking... | |
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