 we are weary, And we cannot run or leap; If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall upon our faces, trying to go; And, underneath, our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest...  San Francisco Municipal Reports ... - Page 1015by San Francisco (Calif.) - 1910Full view - About this book
 | 1914 - 530 pages
...machines, Et, la nuit nous laissant respirer ses pavots, Nous dormirons enfin comme les animaux.' (' If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep.'} But a still more terrible picture of English manners is supplied by the long poem entitled ' La Tamise.'... | |
 | England - 1843 - 832 pages
...the dark of our coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh ! " say the children, " we are weary — And we cannot run or leap : If we cared...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremhle sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our face, trying to go ; And underneath our... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...the dark of our coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh ! " say the children, " we are weary — And we cannot run or leap : If we cared...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our face, trying to go ; And underneath our... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! " For oh," say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run or leap — If we cared...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping — i day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...stand without. in our bewildering, And the graves are for the old !" "For oh," say the children, "we are weary, And we cannot run or leap, — If we cared...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, — We fall upon our faces, trying to go ; And, underneath... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...the dark of our coal shadows From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run or leap : If we cared...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall on our face trying to go ; And underneath our heavy... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...pious race. " For oh," say the children, " wo arc weary, And wo cannot run or leap — If we eared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sloop. Our kneas tremble sorely in the stooping— We fall upon our faces, trying to fao ; And, underneath... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...the dark of our coal-shadows From your pleasures fair and fine. " For, oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run or leap : If we cared...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall on our face trying to go ; And underneath our heavy... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...the dark of our coal shadows From your pleasures fair and fine. " For oh !" say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run or leap : If we cared...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping, We fall on our face trying to go ; Antl underneath our heavy... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 318 pages
...the dark of the coal-shadows, From your pleasures fair and fine ! " For oh," say the children, " we are weary, And we cannot run or leap — If we cared...meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping — We fall upon our faces, trying to go ; And, underneath... | |
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