 Breathe his sweet breath, and kiss for kiss impart : Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love ! But soon a nobler task demands her care, Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees...  Weaver's Magazine and Literary Companion - Page 241819Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...her care. Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Tolling of Him who sees in secret there ! And Samuel Rogct-s. — Born 1762, Died 1855. 1182.— FROM "THE VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS." The sails were furl'd... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1878 - 708 pages
...her care, Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there : And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering...to repeat. Released, he chases the bright butterfly ; Oil, he would follow — follow through the sky ! Climbs the gaunt mastiff slumbering in his chain,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...her care. Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there ! And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering...sweet, His moving, murmuring lips endeavour to repeat. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. Born 1801. Died 1861. THE SLEEP. OF all the thoughts of God that are Borne... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...her care. Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there ! And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering...sweet, His moving, murmuring lips endeavour to repeat. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. Born 1801. Died 1861. THE SLEEP. OF all the thoughts of God that am Borne... | |
 | English poetry - 1883 - 338 pages
...Him who sees in secret there!— 25 And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye—now many a written thought, Never to die, with many a...repeat. Released, he chases the bright butterfly; 30 O, he would follow—follow through the sky ! "limbs the gaunt mastiff slumbering in his chain,... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1887 - 488 pages
...her care ; Apart, she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there. And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering...die, with many a lisping sweet, His moving, murmuring lipa endeavour to repeat, Eeleased, he chases the bright butterfly ; Oh, he would follow — follow... | |
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