 | Tom Hood - 1857 - 406 страници
...trellised with roses ? If not, how shall he remember the beauty of the green fields, sighing — " Oh, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, kWith the sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet !" thing like the architectural ones of the... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 страници
...work! work! In the dull December light, And work ! work ! work ! When the weather is warm and bright; While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs And twit me with the spring. 9. " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above my head,... | |
 | 1858 - 424 страници
...light: And write — write — write! When the weather is warm and bright ; While underneath the eavei The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their...sunny backs, And twit me with the spring. Oh ! but for one short hour ! A respite, however brief! Ho blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for... | |
 | 1859 - 316 страници
...Of the blankets around me again, With the curtains about my head, And nothing to think of the rain. For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the awful pangs Of the run before the meal. Oh ! but for one short hour, A respite however scant, No blessed... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 страници
...work ! In the dull December tight, And work — work — work, When the weather is warm and bright — While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet — With tile sky above my head And the grass beneath my feet, For only one sweet hour To feel as I used to... | |
 | 1860 - 582 страници
...Workman, No. C6. "I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, That it may seem their guilt." — Macbeth. "While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." " The Song of the Shirt." To which, perhaps, might be added the first six lines of Coleridge's " Sonnet... | |
 | 1860 - 568 страници
...Workman, No. 6C. "I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, That it may seem their guilt." — Macbeth. " While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling,...me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring." " The Song of the Shirt." To which, perhaps, might be added the first six lines of Coleridge's " Sonnet... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 страници
...work I In the dull December light ; And work — work — work ! When the weather is warm and bright : While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, " Oh ! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet; With the sky above my head, And... | |
 | Ellen Barlee - 1860 - 262 страници
...devised for this malady, which appears now to have reached its fever point ? CHAPTER VII. lalf ag " Oh, but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above her head, And the grass beneath her feet ! For only one short hour To feel as she used to feel, Before... | |
 | 1863 - 568 страници
...for one hour a day, if possible ; into the green of a park, since no one hour would enable her " — to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, With the sky above her head, And the grass beneath her feet." done it better, and that with less dealing of death to her... | |
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Oh but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet, — With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet! For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal! 
