 | Alfred Cooper Fryer - 1881 - 244 pages
...What the birds and 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 ! " The North Wind observed all that was passing with his keen bright eyes. He was glad to see the... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 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 There are things of which I may not speak, There are dreams that cannot die ; There are thoughts that... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1881 - 696 pages
...is the kingdom of heaven " ! And who else has paid the children so golden a tribute as this? — " Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." How could they help loving him who has made himself so truly the children's poet 1 What home can ever... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - Birthday books - 1881 - 466 pages
...children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. CHUDEEN Germain de St. Foix, 17o3. FEBEUAEY 26. FJD Arago, 1786; Yictor Hugo, 18o2. If there be a sympathy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1881 - 474 pages
...children ! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, FEBRUAEY 25. Germain de St. Foix, 1703. FEBEUAEY 26. F. j. D. Arago, 1786; Victor Hugo, 1802. 6l If... | |
 | 1881 - 588 pages
...contriviiigs", and the wisdom of our books, Compared with your caresses, and the gladness of your looks 'I Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said ; For ye are the living poems, and all the rest are dead." Some of your living poems are peculiar metre, and rather... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - Sermons, American - 1881 - 690 pages
...is the kingdom of heaven " ! And who else has paid the children so golden a tribute as this? — " Ye are better than all the ballads That e,ver were sung or said ; For yt are living poems, And all the rest are dead." How could they help loving him who has made himself... | |
 | Saint-Nicholas - 1882 - 1034 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, And alt the rest are dead." ТНК WESTERN ENTRANCE OF LONGFELLOW'S HOUSE. (FROM THE PIAZZA THERE IS A... | |
 | Jessie Margaret E. Saxby - Children's stories - 1882 - 138 pages
...COMPANY EDINBURGH : I'RINTED BY M*FARLANE AND ERSKINE, ST JAMES SQUARE. JBrbtcateli The Bairns. ' Ve are better than all the ballads That ever were sung...ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.''' CONTENTS. THE NORTH WIND AND THE SNOW, . .... 9 IL A STORY OF KING CHRISTMAS, 13 IIL CHRISTMAS HERALDS.... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1882 - 838 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? Ye are better ¡han all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are the living poems, And all the rest are... | |
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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... 
