 THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.  The North American Review - Page 443edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | 1906 - 528 pages
...sun is brighter in yon sky Since our sweet Sunshine dwelleth there above. ANONYMOUS. THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To...backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of His infinite patience To this wayward soul... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1908 - 186 pages
...little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, 5 That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim...wayward soul of mine. I know not how others saw her, 10 But to me she was wholly fair, And the light of the heaven she came from Still lingered and gleamed... | |
 | John Albert Macy - 1913 - 368 pages
...that a strong man, tragically meaning what he tries to say, should speak like a feeble sentimentalist. I had a little daughter And she was given to me To...me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee. After the War, in which Lowell lost three nephews, Hosea Biglow sings his joy at the coming of peace... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 748 pages
...life and heart, 278 Is more than time enough to find a world. 1844. In "Poems," 1848. THE CHANGELING' I had a little daughter, And she was given to me To...how others saw her, But to me she was wholly fair, I0 And the light of the heaven she came from Still lingered and gleamed in her hair ; For it was as... | |
 | Julia Frankau - 1918 - 190 pages
...a loving memory ! Did Robert Browning know of Phyllis Vane's child when he wrote of the one " that was given to me to lead me gently backward to the Heavenly Father's knee " ? She thinks he did ; she thinks that line of his beautiful poem was written for her. The divine... | |
 | James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1924 - 522 pages
...nearly spent, One gush of light these eyes will brim, Only to think she came and went. THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To...backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the foree of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1910 - 144 pages
...not know That my kiss was given to her sister, Folded close under deepening snow, 40 THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To...how others saw her, But to me she was wholly fair, 1C And the light of the heaven she came from Still lingered and gleamed in her hair ; For it was as... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1908 - 184 pages
...between, And makes them fresh and fair and green, 50 Sweet homes wherein to live and die. THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To...me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, 5 That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience... | |
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