 Touch us gently, Time ! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, — as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream. Humble voyagers are we, Husband, wife, and children three — One is lost, — an angel, fled To the azure overhead. Touch us gently, Time...  Leisure hours in town, by the author of The recreations of a country parson - Page 111by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1862 - 382 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Almanacs, American - 1844 - 468 pages
...; they gave emetics without ipecacuanha, and cured agues without bark. Touch us gently, Time ! Jjd us glide adown thy stream Gently— as we sometimes...we, Husband, wife, and children three — (One is lest — an angel, tied To the azure overhead !) Touch us gently, Time ! We "ve not proud or soaring... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - 1846 - 312 pages
...thy single sad reward Must be some lonely lover's tear ! 80NG8. CXCVII.— A PETITION TO TIME (1831.) TOUCH us gently, Time ! Let us glide adown thy stream...We, Husband, wife, and children three — (One is lost,—an angel, fled To the azure overhead !) Touch us gently, Time ! We 've not proud nor soaring... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 396 pages
...miscellaneous. TOUCH US GENTLY, TIME ! BY lurr.ï CORNWALL. Touch us gently, Time : Let us glide down thy stream Gently— as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream ! Humble voyngcrs are we, Husband, wife, and children three ; One is lost— an angel fled To the azure overhead... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...: its flight was heavy, and its wing Seem'd weary with a long day's wandering. A PETITION TO TIME. Touch us gently, Time ! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently — as we sometimes glide A PRAYER IN SICKNESS. Send dowa thy winged angel, God ! Amid this night so wild ; And bid him come... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1854 - 746 pages
...'gently' with me. But first, reader, to the lines. Just read them : ' ' TOUCH up gently, gently, TLMF. Î Let us glide a-down thy stream Gently — as we sometimes glide Through a quiet, quiet dream ! Humble voyagers aro we. Husband, wife, and children thr« — (One is lost — an angel... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...present is our only lot ; О God, heneeforth our hearts ineline To seek no other love than thine ! Toueh us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently — as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream ! Bryan W. Pnels. Then haste thee, Time — Ч is kindness all That speeds thy winged feet so fast... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...: its flight was heavy, and its wing Seem'd weary with a long day's wandering. A PETITION TO TIME. Touch us gently, Time ! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently — as we sometimes glide Through a quict dream ! Humhle voyngers are We, Hushand, wife, and children three — (One is lost — an angel,... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 452 pages
...thing means I am hound to do it, I am under an obligation to do it. I will do such a thing means I intend to do it, It is my present purpose to do it....Gently, — as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream. 26 Humble voyagers are we, Husband, wife, and children three — One is lost. — an angel, fled To... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...well that day six months ! Six months ! What might that time not do ? Perhaps you have not read ¡i little poem of Barry Cornwall's, the idea of which...glide adown thy stream, Gently — as we sometimes glidu Through a quiet dream. Humble voyagers are we. Husband, wife, and children three — One is lost—... | |
 | 1861 - 820 pages
...to the heart of most of us:— Touch us gently, Time ! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently,—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream. Humble voyagers...are we, Husband, wife, and children three— One is lost,—an angel, fled To the azure overhead. Touch us gently, Time I We've not proud nor soaring wings... | |
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