 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1882 - 504 pages
...What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. " For what are all uur contrivuigs, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? ' *P*A *** *££* **' alp:i: Ye arc better than all die ballads That ever were sung or said ; For... | |
 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin - 1882 - 56 pages
...his little song to " Children," closing with : " Ye are better than all the ballads That were ever sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead." And the exquisite home and child feeling of " The Hanging of the Crane " ; — a picture so njinutely... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...HENRY ALFORD. Poetical Works. (Strahan.) 244 Ill, LITTLE CHILDREN. " For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your...poems, And all the rest are dead." HW LONGFELLOW. FLOWERS ON THE BANK. FLOWERS on the bank — we pass and call them gay : The primroses throw pictures... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 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... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1883 - 700 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." Published weekly. Price $I.5O a year, or 6 cents single copy ! ~~ UNITY PULPIT. BOSTON. SERMONS OF... | |
 | lady Constance Eleanora C. Howard - 1883 - 316 pages
...children, They were no longer there.' LONGFELLOW : The Open Window. ' 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.' LONGFELLOW : Children. AND then there came a time which to her dying day Mollie never forgot. The day... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Publishers' bindings - 1894 - 748 pages
...What the birds and the winds are sing, ing 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... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 394 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. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 1807— IN SCHOOL-DAYS. Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1914 - 660 pages
...sweets for the youngsters included in the party. The gentle Longfellow wrote of children: Bret Harte "Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems And all the rest are dead." But the White Chief, when, with tears in his eyes, he first beheld Ina and her brothers, expressed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 548 pages
...singim In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contriTines, And the wisdom of our books, *34 V« are better than all the ballads That ever were sung...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... 
