 | John Baillie - Women - 1878 - 462 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. ' For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? ' Her one thought was, to fray away any shadow which could dim the gladness of her children's looks.... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1882 - 638 pages
...us, If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before. " Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." It is well, then, that we should centre our home life, not only at Christmas time, but all the year... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1879 - 562 pages
...:•.:)• ч-х ли т: •• > L * THE CHILDREN S HOUR. Ye are better than all the ballads Tlnit ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of old, 1 11 the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 392 pages
...What the birds and the wind are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contriving?, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead ! " LONGFELLOW. WE must pause a moment in the midst of work and letters; we have seen the rector in... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 328 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books. When compared with your...ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of ok!, In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what.are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are the living poems, And all the rest are dead. XXIX. THE Night is mother of the Day, The Winter of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 704 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings. And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...better than all the ballads That ever were sung or saiiJ ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. MY LOST YOUTH. OFTEN I think of the beautiful... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 584 pages
...ear What the birds and the winds are ing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrirings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? 'СОМЕ то ME, O YE CHILDREN." — Page 224. ч«*'> Ye are better than all the ballads That... | |
 | rev. p. b. power, m.a. - 1880 - 588 pages
...are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivmgs, And the wisdom of our books, Compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are better than all the ballade That ever were sung or said, For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. s about folg... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Bookbinding - 1881 - 754 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. SANDALPHON. HAVE you read in the Talmud of old, In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless... | |
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Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are... 
