Alas, alas, the children ! they are seeking Death in life, as best to have : They are binding up their hearts away from breaking, With a cerement from the grave. Go out, children, from the mine and from the city. Sing out, children, as the little thrushes... Poems - Page 140by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853Full view - About this book
| England - 1843 - 832 pages
...they are seeking Death in lire, as hest to have 1 They are hinding up their hearts away from hreaking, With a cerement from the grave. Go out, children,...Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do ! Pluck your handfuls of the meadow cowslips pretty — Langh alond to feel your fingers let them through !... | |
| Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...die before our time I " Alas, the young children ! they are seeking Death in life, as best to have I They are binding up their hearts away from breaking,...Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do ! Pluck your handfuls of the meadow cowslips prettyLaugh aloud to feel your fingers let them through ! But... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1844 - 290 pages
...when it happens," say the children, " That we die before our time ! " VOL. II. K Alas, the wretched children ! they are seeking Death in life, as best...children, as the little thrushes do — Pluck you handful* of the meadow-cowslips pretty — Laugh aloud, to feel your fingers let them through !* But... | |
| American periodicals - 1850 - 638 pages
...WILTON. For the Liring ASe. AN INCIDENT. Alas, they are seeking Death in life, as best to have ! They ere binding up their hearts away from breaking, With a cerement from the grave. EB BARRETT. I TOLD a gifted child of Art, Of one, who, like himself, could see The grand and beautiful... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...seeking Death in life, as best to have ! [ing, They are binding up their hearts away from breakWith a cerement from the grave. Go out, children, from...Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do ! Pluck your handfuls of the meadow cowslips pretty, Laugh aloud to feel your fingers let them through! But... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...! " It is good when it happens," say the children, " That we die before our time !" Alas, the young children ! they are seeking Death in life, as best...Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do ! Pluck your handfulls of the meadow cowslips pretty, Laugh aloud to feel your fingers let them through! But... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...seeking Death in life, as best to have ! [^nff, They are binding up their hearts away from breakWith a cerement from the grave. Go out, children, from...Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do! Pluck your handfuls of the meadow cowslips pretty, S..2 Laugh aloud to feel your fingers let them through!... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...chime! " It is good when it happens," say the children, " That we die before our time !" Alas, the young children ! they are seeking Death in life, as best to have ! They are binding up their hearts nvay from breaking, With a cerement from the grave. Go out, children, from the mine and from the city,... | |
| John Spence (jr.), Young physician - England - 1847 - 184 pages
...country of the free." Listen now to the language of encouragement to children, and their reply : " Go out, children, from the mine and from the city...Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do ! Pluck your handfuls of the meadow cowslips pretty — Laugh loud to feel your fingers let them through !... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Children's poetry, English - 1850 - 596 pages
...your ear down, little Alice never cries ! — Could we see her face, be sure we should not know her, And merry go her moments, lulled and 'stilled in The...out, children, as the little thrushes do — Pluck your handfuls of the meadow-cowslips pretty — Laugh aloud, to feel your fingers let them through... | |
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