 | Charles Herman Allen, John Swett, Josiah Royce - Readers - 1883 - 252 pages
...the birds and the winds are singing, In your sunny atmosphere. 2. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks? 3. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are the living poems, And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1883 - 320 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 t Yo arc better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said ; For ye are living poems, And all... | |
 | Alice Johnson Jones - 1909 - 134 pages
...room for those of whom our own Longfellow has said, Ye are better than all the poems That were ever sung or said, For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. Truly, the times are sadly out of joint when it is inexpedient and unfashionable to have children.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1910 - 532 pages
...What the birds and the winds 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. 785 • THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP ' BUILD me straight, O worthy Master J Stanch and strong, a goodly... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 294 pages
...singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, 30 When compared with your caresses, And the gladness...That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, 3S And all the rest are dead. SANDALPHON0 HAVE you read in the Talmud of old,0 In the Legends the Rabbins... | |
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - English poetry - 1911 - 224 pages
...contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks t 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. Cfiildreit. HENRY WADSWOBTH LONGFELLOW. THE BOCK-A-BY... | |
 | Michigan. Dept. of Public Instruction - Holidays - 1911 - 218 pages
...compared with yoar caresses, And the gladness of your looks? Ye are better than all the ballads Than ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. FLOWERS Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American poetry - 1912 - 696 pages
...singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, 30 When compared with your caresses And the gladness...That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, 35 And all the rest are dead. FROM THE SONG OF HIAWATHA m HIAWATHA'S CHILDHOOD Downward through the... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American poetry - 1912 - 702 pages
...singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what arc all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our bonks, 33 When compared with your caresses And the gladness...all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye arc living poems, li And all the rest arc dead. FROM THE SONG OF HIAWATHA • HIAWATHA'S CHILDHOOD... | |
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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... 
